ICANN has announced the suspension of accreditation of Intracom from the United Arab Emirates. The reason for the sanctions was the delay in payments to the ICANN budget, the lack of progress in the implementation of the RDAP service, which should replace WHOIS, failure to comply with data storage requirements, as well as ignoring requests from ICANN representatives related to these problems over the past 8 months. In the period from July 6 to October 4 this year, the company loses the right to register new domain names, as well as to carry out incoming domain transfers. If during this time the violations are not corrected, the company is threatened with deprivation of accreditation.
This situation poses serious problems for the new .GDN gTLD. It was delegated in April 2015, and public registration in it started in March 2016. Its registry is Navigation-information systems (NIS), registered, like Intracom, in Dubai. The domain name is an abbreviation for Global Domain Name, and currently about 11 thousand names are registered in the domain zone, notes the Domain Incite resource. At the same time, more than 10 thousand of them are registered through Intracom. Thus, the domain loses its main and almost the only registrar for the coming months.
In addition, the NIS registry itself has previously faced claims from ICANN: it was twice sent notices of breach of contract due to improper functioning of the WHOIS service. The company was able to correct the shortcomings in time and avoid harsh sanctions, but now its main partner has fallen under these sanctions.
