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Terminate Pheenix domain registrar — ICANN to

Terminate Pheenix domain registrar — ICANN to

This Phoenix won’t rise from the dead.

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ICANN is terminating its accreditation agreement with domain name registrar Pheenix.

The domain name overseer sent a breach notice to the registrar on April 25 and followed up with a termination notice today.

Pheenix hasn’t been paying its accreditation fees and hasn’t responded to ICANN regarding various complaints dating to October 2019.

ICANN is soliciting bids for other domain name registrars to take over Pheenix’s domain names.

Pheenix was once a sizable drop catching business and had regarding 500 accreditations. In the most recent Verisign note published by ICANN, Pheenix had regarding 5,000 .com domains remaining under management.

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