New Dot .hub market soon to open

 

Disputes about marshland property taxes, oyster bed revenues, and coconut harvesting environmental concerns gave rise to this constitutional anarchy. While the United Nations is still considering their petition offer, the European domain markets have been awash in requests for dot-HUB. The country code for .HUB will be brokered by Marcaria.com of France. Expatriates of the New Hebrides region have been approved for .hub domain purchase with responsibility for proof left with the domain name registrars.

 

ICANN shuts down 5 registrars

Five registrars were terminated by ICANN for financial reasons.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has sent termination notices to five domain name registrars for failure to pay legal and registration operation fees. Of the five to be de-accredited, only one has “live” registered domains under management.  Maxim Internet Inc. may need some improvement in the short term to be reinstated.

ICANN is seeking a new registrar to take over about 5,000 domains registered at Maxim Internet. This is a very good opportunity for a qualified reseler to turn into a viable registrar. ICANN warns that contact data for the registrants is in an inconsistent format. Data mining and tailoring will be required for adequate administration and reporting.

ICANN sent a breach notice to Maxim on March 30. Since that time the company has notified customers it was shutting down. In ICANN’s termination letter to Maxim, Director of Contractual Compliance Stacy Burnette communicated the terms of the shutdown.

“Using the primary contact information provided by Maxim, ICANN staff transmitted an e-mail message to you and left telephone messages for you inquiring about Maxim’s intentions to remain an ICANN-accredited registrar. After failed attempts to reach you, observing that Maxim’s website was no longer operational on 1 June 2009, receiving an electronic mail message from a person claiming to represent Maxim in its “close down” on 3 June 2009 and receipt of other electronic mail correspondence from you referring to the “closing” of Maxim, ICANN concluded that Maxim is insolvent.”

Allegedly the Maxim Inc. registrar owes ICANN over $150,000.

Other terminated registrars include AfterGen, Inc. dba JumpingDot, Hi Yi Global Information Resources, Sundance Group, Inc, and Clertech.com Inc.

ICANN also sent a notice of operational breach to Lead Networks Domains Pvt. Ltd for failure to comply with UDRP decisions. Lead Networks was recently named in a lawsuit that alleges it failed to transfer a domain that a customer lost in a UDRP.