NameCheap Gets Slapped By ICANN

May 3, 2014 by Michele Neylon

NameCheap has been sent a breach notice by ICANN’s Compliance department.

The notice, which was sent yesterday, shows that ICANN has been trying to get a response from NameCheap since the middle of March of this year.

NameCheap, apparently, is not meeting its contractual obligations to:

keep data about domain name registrants and their dealings with NameCheap
list pricing on domain renewal and post-expiry pricing
provide details on how they send domain renewal notices

Here’s the full letter:

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NameCheap doesn’t appear to be using its accreditation for most of its domain registrations preferring to instead act as a reseller for eNom. The company is still on the 2009 RAA.

About Michele Neylon

Michele is founder and managing director of Irish domain registrar and hosting company Blacknight. Michele has been deeply involved in domain and internet policy discussions for more than a decade.
He also co-hosts the Technology.ie podcast.