Cheapies.com registrar managing about 12 thousand common top-level domains is denied authorities to registrate new domain names as well as sell the existing ones. Sanctions which last since October, 4, 2013 till October, 4, 2014 are the strictest in ICANN history and followed after three warnings for Cheapies during this year.
The last one of them concerned the story with domain ebookvortex.com. Cheapies administration did not provide its owner with necessary data for authorization when he addressed with inquiry to make a domain’s transfer. Earlier on two warnings were issued in January, 2013, for violation of registries recording rules and non-compliance of the rules of domains’ transfer between registrars. Before the cease of the approbation period Cheapies has a possibility to solve the problems. Otherwise the registrar risks to lose its ICANN accreditation.