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ICANN announced yesterday that they had sent notices to three domain registrars informing them that their accreditation would not be renewed. According to the documents available on ICANN’s website, the registrars have violated the conditions of the RAA (Registrar Accreditation Agreement). The reasons and details of the violations are explained in each letter.
The first registrar, based in New York, failed to provide accessible Whois information on their domains, a service required by the RAA. ICANN sent a letter to them on July 17, but the registrar failed to respond. Since then, they have activated their Whois service but still do not have all of the required information available. The second registrar failed to escrow gTLD registration, which is apparently a database containing certain domain data. They failed to submit the data and did not respond to ICANN’s requests. They also failed to pay their ICANN fees.
The final registrar also failed to escrow gTLD and pay their ICANN accreditation fees. In all three cases, ICANN informed the registrars that their accreditation will be allowed to expire, but they can renew if they remedy the problems. Assuming that does not happen in time, ICANN will begin procedures to transition the domains from the non-compliant registrars.
