ICANN announced terminating the registrar accreditation for Dynamic Dolphin. The published report says that the reason is received information that confirms Scott Richter being the company’s owner.
Richter is also known as the “Spam King”. Due to the organization of mass mailing of spam-messages he has frequently been the subject of legal proceedings and was forced to pay multimillion-dollar fines. However, only this could not be the reason for noncooperation with him. But ICANN rules have a clause that forbids convicted criminals to head accredited registrars. And Scott Richter was convicted for misappropriation of another’s property some time ago.
Experts in this regard wonder why ICANN decided to terminate cooperation with Dynamic Dolphin only now. Known journalist Brian Krebs five years ago suggested that Richter is behind Dynamic Dolphin. Moreover, there could be a problem with the transfer of domains earlier managed by Dynamic Dolphin to any other registrar. This practice is provided by ICANN rules however it won’t be easy to find someone who wants to administer domains earlier managed by the “Spam King”. According to ICANN data, Dynamic Dolphin administered almost 25 thousand domains. 13280 of these were used by the company for its own purposes and 9933 belong to only three individuals.
