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Down DomainCannon, Owes $187,000 in Fees — ICANN Shuts

Domain registrar shut down following not paying accreditation fees.

ICANN has sent a notice of termination to Fresh Orleans-based domain name registrar DomainCannon, citing a number of infractions. The registrar apparently owes $186,598.39 in past due accreditation fees. Additionally, it’s web site is not available, and it has failed to escrow whois data, the letter states.

The termination notice from ICANN also notes that DomainCannon is in breach of VeriSign’s registry-registrar agreement.

As stated by registrar stats, DomainCannon has 11,729 registered domain names.

It is good to see ICANN cleaning up its registrars. But that’s a heck of a lot of past due fees — more than I recall seeing on any termination notice. You have to ask why it took so long to terminate the registrar.

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