ICANN threaten to Pullout accredition for EstDomains

[winson]

A domain registrar infamous amongst the security world is being faced with shutdown.

EstDomains was notified by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) that it would be stripped of its accreditation due to the legal troubles of its chief executive. Vladimir Tsastsin was convicted in February of credit card fraud, forgery and money laundering in Estonia.

The company has since appealed, claiming that Tsastsin had previously resigned his post and is currently appealing the

Read More herehttp://www.itnews.com.au/News/NewsStory.aspx?story=87889

 

[-Adam-]

Addition to that story

http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/847

 

[Acroplex]

WOW. I recently managed to pull a domain out of there. Their domain interface would not even unlock the domains (even though it said it did). I had to contact support and they unlocked it and I moved it out to Fabulous. Snapnames needs to ditch ESTdomains asap!