{"id":110,"date":"2008-10-30T18:05:51","date_gmt":"2008-10-30T16:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tld.sc\/en\/?p=110"},"modified":"2020-01-13T10:58:20","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T08:58:20","slug":"icann-shuts-down-registrar-that-worked-for-spammers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnamed.blog\/en\/2008\/10\/icann-shuts-down-registrar-that-worked-for-spammers\/","title":{"rendered":"ICANN shuts down registrar that worked for spammers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ICANN, the organization that overlooks everything regarding domain name registrations, has sent a notice of termination to EstDomains. This Estionian domain name registrar is especially known because it is very popular with internet crooks. A reasonably large amount of domain names used for phishing or spam are registered through this Estonian registrar. While we can&#8217;t find any actual proof of this, and EstDomains itself has always denied this, insiders do talk about this registrar having a very close relationship with spammers and maybe even being involved in the spamming and hoax-sending itself.<\/p>\n<p>By this termination, EstDomains will no longer be able to directly buy gTLD&#8217;s from the registries. Such gTLD&#8217;s are for example .com, .net, .org, .biz, .info, .asia,&#8230;<br \/>\nEstDomains is also an .eu accredited registrar. It isn&#8217;t clear yet if EURid itself will take action and also end its contract with EstDomains.<\/p>\n<p>The reason for termination of the contract however doesn&#8217;t seem to be directly related to any spam-connections. The reason ICANN gives for the contract termination is a conviction of the president of EstDomains in Estonia for fraud, money laundering and forgery.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the reason is, it will probably cause the internet to become just a little bit safer. Over 275.000 domain names are involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ICANN, the organization that overlooks everything regarding domain name registrations, has sent a notice of termination to EstDomains. This Estionian domain name registrar is especially known because it is very popular with internet crooks. A reasonably large amount of domain names used for phishing or spam are registered through this Estonian registrar. While we can&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnamed.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnamed.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnamed.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnamed.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnamed.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnamed.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnamed.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions\/113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnamed.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnamed.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnamed.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}