ICANN Flips Switch on ESTDomains Registrar Accreditation

By Marc Handelman on October 29th, 2008

News, from Garth Bruen of KnujOn (and fellow supporting member of CastleCops): ICANN has officially terminated ESTDomains, Inc. as an accredited registrar.

A short excerpt from the notification, as well as Garth’s posting appears after the break. The ICANN Termination Notification To ESTDomains, Inc. is available for download (via the Infosecurity.US Public Document Repository).

From KnujOn’s post: “EstDomains Accreditation Terminated By ICANN

Be advised that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) for EstDomains, Inc. (Customer No. 919,IANA No. 832) is terminated. Consistent with subsection 5.3.3 of the RAA, this termination is based on your status as President of EstDomains and your credit card fraud, money laundering and document forgery conviction. This termination shall be effective within fifteen calendar days from the date of this letter, on 12 November 2008... (icann.org)

ICANN De-Accredits EstDomains for CEO's Fraud Convictions: The entity responsible for overseeing the Internet's domain name system said Tuesday that it was revoking the right of registrar EstDomains.com to process new domain names, citing the company CEO's recent conviction on cyber crime charges... Kudos to ICANN, and to others -- particularly HostExploit.com and Knujon -- who contributed to shining a light on EstDomains' storied history and practices. (voices.washingtonpost.com)..."