ICANN sent its official notices to seven registrars on breaching their contract obligations. The defaulting companies include: HaveaName, Netestate, TopSystem, OpenName, NeuDomain, MisterNic и InstantNames. They all failed to pay to ICANN their accreditation fees. According to Domain Name Wire, the companies have been given time until March 4 to remedy the violation and report thereon.
The chances of having the breach cured are feeble. By all appearance, none of them are active. For instance, they have no Verisign accreditation and so are not entitled to register domain names in the top-level domain .COM. More to it, at the time of this publication, browsers did not open the sites of such domain name registrars indicating their SSL-certificates have expired.
All the seven registrars have a curious thing in common. They all have been registered in the United States with the point of contact indicated as some Alexey Gromov. It is highly probable that these registrars will lose their ICANN registration soon, which can hardly be a serious loss for the domain names market.
