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Turkish hosting provider teknoclouds.com that provides domain and hosting services to local customers, mainly used by webmasters were offering bargain pricing for domain registrations and/or transfers.
Last year there were some discussions on Turkish forums that they're mostly using pre-paid accounts on Microsoft Azure for these services without paying a dime, and that caused a panic for possible domain deletion.
Company mentioned that they were only using the Microsoft Azure API for connecting to Wild West Domains (GoDaddy) and denied the gossips.
Recently in four days, lots of domain names are being forwarded to Godaddy nameservers (Some of them are listed as for sale at GoDaddy Auctions) and/or deleted which are created via Microsoft Azure through Wild West Domains and Teknoclouds mentioned that problem is on Microsoft side (As they commented out, Microsoft has updated their policy), also, they mentioned that there's no way to communicate with GoDaddy/Microsoft Azure and solve the problem, as a result, they pointed ICANN for further actions.
But, ICANN couldn't take any action yet, because Teknoclouds is just a domain reseller and pointed Wild West Domains (GoDaddy).
GoDaddy also mentioned that there's nothing to do on their end and pointed Microsoft Azure.
"I understand that you are writing in about a domain registered by Teknoclouds. We are not directly affiliated with Teknoclouds and they are not one of our customers. With review of the domain name. We show that the the domain name was registered through Microsoft Azure and Teknoclouds was a customers of theirs. We only provide back end processing for Microsoft Azure and have no access to their accounts or system on these domains. Teknocloud was not registering domains through us but were registering them through a partener of ours which was Microsoft Azure. If your domain name was registered in the last week or so, your domain has being automatically canceled and sent back to the registry, in which you will need to repurchase the domain name through your desired registrar of choice. As we have no dealings or direct interaciton with Teknocloud we have no way to further assist you here and all communications would need to go through the responsible parties. This means that any refunds of the purchase would need to come from Teknocloud as you were paying them to get the domain from Microsoft Azure. In the case that your domain was registered more than a week ago and the domain has not been canceled by Microsoft you will need to open up a ticket with Microsoft Azure for them to further assist you with gettingt he domain active in your Azure account. You can create an account and put a request in through the steps below provided by Microsoft Azure and Select "APP Service Domains". Things to keep in mind, if your domain name cannot be moved to your account 1 reason on another, there would be not be any way for us to further assist you again and replying for further assistance will not gain any additional support, these domains were purchased on your behalf through Teknocloud and you were not the purchaser of these domains. We do apologize that Teknocloud was not being fair and upfront with their customers but there is nothing more we can do on our end here"
Microsoft Azure App Service Team couldn't give any proper information about this issue yet.
Few people are forwarding this issue to local courts, also it's published on the news.
Sure, there's no way to recover domain names on pending status, as they will be dropped.
But, people may have a chance to regain names that're still parked on GoDaddy nameservers.
Lots of developed sites belonging to individuals and companies are affected within this issue.
Some people are also ready to make additional payments directly to GoDaddy and/or Azure for a solution.
Example news content in Turkish language via MSN;
https://www.msn.com/tr-tr/haber/gundem/domain-vurgunu-39-bin-site-çöktü/ar-AALSw42
@Paul Nicks @Joe Styler
Last year there were some discussions on Turkish forums that they're mostly using pre-paid accounts on Microsoft Azure for these services without paying a dime, and that caused a panic for possible domain deletion.
Company mentioned that they were only using the Microsoft Azure API for connecting to Wild West Domains (GoDaddy) and denied the gossips.
Recently in four days, lots of domain names are being forwarded to Godaddy nameservers (Some of them are listed as for sale at GoDaddy Auctions) and/or deleted which are created via Microsoft Azure through Wild West Domains and Teknoclouds mentioned that problem is on Microsoft side (As they commented out, Microsoft has updated their policy), also, they mentioned that there's no way to communicate with GoDaddy/Microsoft Azure and solve the problem, as a result, they pointed ICANN for further actions.
But, ICANN couldn't take any action yet, because Teknoclouds is just a domain reseller and pointed Wild West Domains (GoDaddy).
GoDaddy also mentioned that there's nothing to do on their end and pointed Microsoft Azure.
"I understand that you are writing in about a domain registered by Teknoclouds. We are not directly affiliated with Teknoclouds and they are not one of our customers. With review of the domain name. We show that the the domain name was registered through Microsoft Azure and Teknoclouds was a customers of theirs. We only provide back end processing for Microsoft Azure and have no access to their accounts or system on these domains. Teknocloud was not registering domains through us but were registering them through a partener of ours which was Microsoft Azure. If your domain name was registered in the last week or so, your domain has being automatically canceled and sent back to the registry, in which you will need to repurchase the domain name through your desired registrar of choice. As we have no dealings or direct interaciton with Teknocloud we have no way to further assist you here and all communications would need to go through the responsible parties. This means that any refunds of the purchase would need to come from Teknocloud as you were paying them to get the domain from Microsoft Azure. In the case that your domain was registered more than a week ago and the domain has not been canceled by Microsoft you will need to open up a ticket with Microsoft Azure for them to further assist you with gettingt he domain active in your Azure account. You can create an account and put a request in through the steps below provided by Microsoft Azure and Select "APP Service Domains". Things to keep in mind, if your domain name cannot be moved to your account 1 reason on another, there would be not be any way for us to further assist you again and replying for further assistance will not gain any additional support, these domains were purchased on your behalf through Teknocloud and you were not the purchaser of these domains. We do apologize that Teknocloud was not being fair and upfront with their customers but there is nothing more we can do on our end here"
Microsoft Azure App Service Team couldn't give any proper information about this issue yet.
Few people are forwarding this issue to local courts, also it's published on the news.
Sure, there's no way to recover domain names on pending status, as they will be dropped.
But, people may have a chance to regain names that're still parked on GoDaddy nameservers.
Lots of developed sites belonging to individuals and companies are affected within this issue.
Some people are also ready to make additional payments directly to GoDaddy and/or Azure for a solution.
Example news content in Turkish language via MSN;
https://www.msn.com/tr-tr/haber/gundem/domain-vurgunu-39-bin-site-çöktü/ar-AALSw42
@Paul Nicks @Joe Styler
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40.000 domains!!!
