Up Domain Names from BestRegistrar.com — Dotster Picks
Deal provides fresh home for 5,400 domain names.
Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has selected Dotster to receive of bulk transfer of domain names from de-accreditated domain registrar BestRegistrar.com. BesRegistrar.com had regarding 5,400 gTLD domain names that will be transferred to Dotster.
The transfers do not include any extension to expiration term, so BestRegistrar clients ought to renew domains at Dotster. If a domain expires within 60 days of the transfer to Dotster, Dotster may reject the transfer. Although Dotster received whois information, it did not receive billing information for BestRegistrar.com’s clients.
The transfer agreement between Dotster and ICANN is in accordance ICANN’s Interim Terminated Registrar Transition Procedure. This procedure was developed in part since of the RegisterFly fiasco, where nearly 1 million domains were held in limbo when RegisterFly was de-accreditated. GoDaddy stepped in to pick up the RegisterFly domain names.
BestRegistrar.com is one of a handful of registrars to hand its domains over under this policy. Many of them are modest, with 1,000 domains or so, making it questionable if other registrars will go through the hassle of applying to take over the domains.
