Termination of domain registrar MITSU INC by Nixi

[dnk]

Received the following message from Nixi

Dear Registrant / Customer,


This is to inform that the registrar account of your current registrar – Mitsu Inc. has been terminated by National Internet Exchange of India(NIXI) which manages the .IN Registry.


In view of the termination, your registrar will not be able to provide you any domain management services for .IN or .भारत (in all supported languages).


In order to protect your rights and commercial interests,.IN Registry hereby informs you to transfer your domain(s) to an alternate Accredited Registrar of .IN Registry of your choice. Please view the link below for the list of registrars - https://registry.in/Accredited_Registrars


You may contact your preferred new registrar on your own for transferring your domain(s) and follow the process as may be advised by the new registrar.


Meanwhile to maintain continuity, .IN Registry is taking over the control of your domain names and if you require any changes to your existing contact details or Nameserver associated with your domain name, you are requested to send an email from your registrant email id, as reflecting in whois records to [email protected].


While moving to a new registrar, you are requested to contact .IN Registry to obtain your domain authorization or “AUTH CODE” – which will be required by the new registrar to initiate transfer of your domain(s).


You are requested to complete the transfer process in the next 15 days from the date of this email. If not, .IN Registry will initiate its own process to transfer your domain to another registrar as may be determined by .IN Registry.

Sincerely yours,
National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI)


Has anyone else received this email, and knows what is the real reason for termination of Mitsu, as it is causing a lot of inconvenience

 

[vatsan]

Spoke to Sanjeev Goyal from Mitsu who confirmed this and he said a few of these .in domains have switched registrars without his or the customer's consent. He said these names would still appear in your account but you won't be able to make changes to it. He said you'd have to contact the registry and ask them to transfer it back to Mitsu for it to work again. I have a reseller account with Mitsu and about 50 domain names on it.

Sanjeev has filed a lawsuit against Nixi and is in touch with them. I will reach out to him later today and update you guys.

 

[vatsan]

You don't know what is happening with LLL.in dropcatching during last ~2 years???
Or what???

I have not been following the news for a few years now. Please do tell us what this is about.

 

[Super Software]

I cannot comment on the specifics. However my perspective is posted on another forum (IN related) and you can view it there.

Unfortunately the weak governance framework and lack of stringent norms IMHO allowed an individual (who projected himself as a mega global corporation to me back in 2013) to secure multiple registrar accounts, which has been flagged as a severe risk in itself on multiple occasions.

Due to the enforcement action triggered only one main account was secured by the Registry, hence you see just over half of the 40K domains impacted as of now. Several transfer movements in the days leading to this event should also be under scutiny, apart from other nefarious acts of registrar(s) and there is possibly more to come.

 

[dnk]

I cannot comment on the specifics. However my perspective is posted on another forum (IN related) and you can view it there.

Unfortunately the weak governance framework and lack of stringent norms IMHO allowed an individual (who projected himself as a mega global corporation to me back in 2013) to secure multiple registrar accounts, which has been flagged as a severe risk in itself on multiple occasions.

Due to the enforcement action triggered only one main account was secured by the Registry, hence you see just over half of the 40K domains impacted as of now. Several transfer movements in the days leading to this event should also be under scutiny, apart from other nefarious acts of registrar(s) and there is possibly more to come.

Please confirm how many domain registrars, domains are affected and how soon the matter is likely to get resolved., Can you provide more details of the enforcement action, which government agencies were involved

 

[dnk]

Spoke to Sanjeev Goyal from Mitsu who confirmed this and he said a few of these .in domains have switched registrars without his or the customer's consent.

Are you referring to NIXI Holding Account (R189-AFIN) or some other registrar

 

[blaal]

As per the contact information provided at [registry.in/about/contact-us-form] for NIXI, I contacted +91-1146448888 to verify this issue. NIXI confirmed that mail was genuine one. But the technical personal reluctant to give the details why they sent this mail for only Mitsu registrants.

Shifting one or two domains from Mitsu to another registrar is not a big issue. But shifting all the domains to the new registrar within 15 days is a financial burden for this NIXI act. I raised the same question, the personal who received my call asked me to forward the mail to [registrantsupport(at)registry.in] with all the concerns. So that NIXI will consider the registrants concerns. I sent my request to the nixi.

Kindly update any one has any additional info.

Thank You.

 

[dnk]

Had transferred the domains from another registrar to Mitsu due to an online financial, domain fraud, now it is showing the old who is details (of the earlier registrar), is anyone else is facing a similar problem.

 

[domainpundit]

If you want to follow the choronological updates on this one - you can refer this article with the additioanl details - http://our.in/mitsu-registar-account-termination-nixi-communication/

Mitsu.in is not stopping any of the customers tranferring names out , neither registry. Please do not attribute this issue to the whole .IN extension without not understanding the facts behind it.

What ever happened is clearly very unfortunate, i feel sorry for Mitsu.in ( a long standing .IN registars account is getting terminated). While the matter will be dealt legally, a dispute likely to be arbitrated by indian judiciary system.

its important to remmeber none of the .IN registrant will be loosing their names. .IN registry and Mitsu both are co-operating with their customers to ensure the impact is mitigated. In fact, i have spoken to Mr Sanjeev and as well as registry support too.. they both are very co-operative to mitigate the impact to end customers.. I have seen much worser situatons where the registrants names are got stuck for months with other extensions, even we have such examples in a matured extension like .COM too.

Lets be optimistic and hope the issue will be resolved amicably.

 

[Kate]

So if I'm reading this right Mitsu is in breach of compliance because of some bug they have not been able to sort out ?

 

[domainpundit]

So if I'm reading this right Mitsu is in breach of compliance because of some bug they have not been able to sort out ?

Registry has not made any official statement on the reasons as of now. We need to wait fo find the further details.


- edited - to remove the speculation part.

 

[Soofi]

Had transferred the domains from another registrar to Mitsu due to an online financial, domain fraud, now it is showing the old who is details (of the earlier registrar), is anyone else is facing a similar problem.

facing this issue as I bought few domains from a namepros member here and I am requesting him to help me on this matter. Lets see how it goes!

 

[rodash]

Yep, my domains are showing the sponsoring registrar as "NIXI Holding Account (R189-AFIN)" in a registry.in whois lookup.
Sad really. This will be the second time I've changed Indian-based registrars.

 

[GoKaizen]

http://our.in/mitsu-registar-account-termination-nixi-communication/

 

[rodash]

Mitsu.in is still sending out renewal notices, as of yesterday.

 

[Corey]

 

[dnk]

Has anyone transferred their domains out of Mitsu recently?

 

[domainpundit]

Has anyone transferred their domains out of Mitsu recently?

I have .. follow the notes in comment section of this article - it works for you - http://our.in/mitsu-registar-account-termination-nixi-communication/

 

[domainpundit]

Mitsu.in is still sending out renewal notices, as of yesterday.

Mitsu has multiple registars in the same control panel. perhaps you are receiving the emails from the names owned at other registars.. it has registars such as business solution , in registar DBA, bharat domains..etc not all the names at Mitsu are locked.. only the names at "Mitsu Registar" are locked.. please do not ignore renewing other names, you may loose them.. check the who is details to validate who is the domain registar or alternatively contact mitsu support.

 

[dr.techy]

any update on this... did NIXI sent auth codes to anyone (CONFIRMED)... i have sent email to NIXI to provide auth codes, but no reply till now after 4 days...

 

[dnk]

any update on this... did NIXI sent auth codes to anyone (CONFIRMED)... i have sent email to NIXI to provide auth codes, but no reply till now after 4 days...

Did you try to use the auth code from the mitsu control panel for transfer

 

[raceway]

When trying to disable the domain lock i get the message "Your request has been failed" kind of hard to transfer away with the domain being locked. Total PITA, guess just wait it out.

 

[aceeca]

When trying to disable the domain lock i get the message "Your request has been failed" kind of hard to transfer away with the domain being locked. Total PITA, guess just wait it out.

The domains are already unlocked, you can confirm with who-is.

 

[raceway]

The domains are already unlocked, you can confirm with who-is.

I see, will try and transfer the names I care about tomorrow. Thanks for the heads up.

 

[Hypersot]

I contacted them as soon as I received that email and they assured me that all is well and my domains are safe.

When I questioned them about why my domains show as being held by NIXI (on a whois) I have yet to get any response.... That was about a week ago but it could be that they want to have a clear answer before answering.

...It still is troubling though. You probably have noticed as well that we have no control over our domains anymore.

 

[crunchyg]

I didn't think of checking the WHOIS! Good call. If the domains are being held by NIXI, then the email is definitely not a spoof.

I just hope that NIXI and the new registrar they assign don't change any nameservers without our permission and allow us to transfer our domains to a decent registrar of our choice. I have live sites with lots of users on those domains, and this is not a welcome disruption.