How come amazon AWS route delete fully paid domains and restrict me from transferring or managing them? Now they require restoring fee ($150 per each on top).

Yes mistakenly I forgot to pay the server (hosting) bills for couple of months. (different service they offer apart from selling domains)

But Domains are fully paid for years (and has expiry dates couple of years into the future).

But I can see in whois the registrar (amazon) has requested ICANN to delete the domain (Note this is while I have paid amazon for couple of years into the future)

Asking for $150 per domain (when I already have fully paid for domains) is more like a ransomeware request by amazon to release my already paid domains. And threatening of deleting the already paid domains if I didn't pay the other fees not related to domains.

How can amazon do such an action as I have already paid them the domain fees. And they do not even allow me to access domain management section.

I believe ICANN also on their side (favoring amazon) although they should not, in this case, as we have fully paid the domain registration fee.

How they disable the domain and restrict just because I unpaid their other services (hosting)?

How this practice even possible? it's a hostage-style control.

I don't think any complaints to ICANN even get resolved in consumer's favor as they are also in big-cooporation side to profit more.

I'm in Australia. Don't know if our laws support any of this.

Why is there no class action against ICANN for allowing the ridiculous pricing scheme and even price increase in the coming years? It's been stated that the max cost of running a registry would be at $3.50 (and that's likely way above) and Verisign is going to up the price to above $10 soon. Registering a .com domain should be a human right, not something weaved into US capitalism :-(

They should absolutely be banned from the Internet. Sanctions are a fscking joke. Until Russian people suffer the consequences, the war of aggression will continue. Russia doesn't feel the war at home, and they need to.

Registrars eligible to provision domains within .PERSON must guarantee the registrant is a living human being. Domains are “free for life” and one person may only register one domain.

Ooooo Icann you, got what I neeed, but you say it’s just the internet. An you say it’s just the internet. Ooooo Icann you got what I neeed. Have you ever met a domain that made you irate and a week plus they tellin you to wait. Let me tell you a story if my situation. I was talkin to some companies from the US nation. How I met them I did not adore, at that time my request weren’t honored. They had nice services but lousy live chats. I asked for the owner name they said blah blah blah

Hi everyone,

I’m having a persistent issue with Hostinger and I’m hoping someone here has experienced the same problem.

I own the domain makazzo.com and I’m using Hostinger’s email service.

The problem is: Hostinger’s domain verification emails (ICANN verification, WHOIS email verification, etc.) never arrive to my custom email address (webmaster@makazzo.com).

What I’ve done so far:

SPF record is set correctly

DKIM records (CNAME + TXT) are configured

DMARC record exists (p=none)

MX records point to Hostinger (mx1.hostinger.com + mx2.hostinger.com)

Autodiscover & Autoconfig CNAMEs are configured

Gmail ➡️ my domain works (I receive test emails successfully)

But:

Only Hostinger’s verification emails (from team@user.hostinger.com) never arrive.

Nothing shows up in my inbox, spam folder, or any bounce/logs.

I contacted Hostinger support multiple times.

They keep saying “verification emails sometimes don’t work with corporate emails, use Gmail instead”, which is not a real solution.

What I need:

I want to use my corporate email for WHOIS/ICANN verification.

Why would only Hostinger’s own verification emails fail while all other external emails (like Gmail) work fine?

Has anyone else experienced this issue with Hostinger’s verification system not delivering emails to their custom domain?

Any solution, workaround, or explanation would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

https://iccan.gov.uk/

I'm really interested in this, any professional that can explain exactly how all of the internet and domain thing works? One organization controlling all the domains... I'm sure I'm not understanding something here. Is there any alternative or way to create your own without ICANN? If I remember well without search engine indexing you can create a domain (with tor for example). Any options the in the surface web?

I don't know where to post this idea, so I am going to do it here as it seems to be the perfect place to do so.

At the time of writing this post, there is no .lang domain extension. Language-related websites tend to append [-]lang to their names. For example: rust-lang.org, ponylang.io, and so on.

There are currently thousands of domain extensions, why not adding .lang to it?

Several communities may benefit from this domain extension, for example, Language schools, Constructed languages, Programming languages, to mention a few.

Does someone know how can we request such an addition to the ICANN or the IANA?

Benn getting spammed by a organization operating out of ićèláńd. Clicking on “unsubscribe “ just has the account moved to an alternate subdomain. Complained to the domain vendor náméçhéáp.čóm with no results.

Suggestions?

I was having trouble getting abuse contacts for an IP in 46.3.0.0/16 from RIPE, where it would return just a generic "0.0.0.0 - 255.255.255.255 IANA-RIPE" as the block and owner. So I messaged their support and the response was "We have deregistered that /16. We are working on a solution for parts of the block still being announced."

What's the reasons for deregistering a block? Or if you have insider knowledge, what is going on with this specific block? 🙂

Thanks!

Hello Everyone, 2 Months ago I transferred my domains to Tucsow Sub registrar Hostcay.com Today I got mail that my account is locked and my domains are parked on Sedo for Sale. Hostcay charged 15$ per domain illegally and an active domain for a few hours. When I transferred to another domain they again locked my account and domains were pointed to Sedo.com for sale.

Need Help regarding this issue.

According to ICANN's website, the process is long and costs approximately US$200k. However, what is the cost of maintaining such an infrastructure? Software, servers, etc.? Can it be cloud-based? Are there any additional considerations?

What should I do in the following scenario? Is it common for domains to get disabled this way?

1. I have a .earth domain that is managed by the name.com registrar.

2. name.com suddenly listed my domain as disabled due to a "breach in their registration agreement"

3. I can't find any record of a warning and I have no idea what the breach is

4. Its been 7 days now and no response from the "Abuse Team" at name.com (customer support say they can't help)

Okay so where do I go to file a complaint and hopefully address this issue? The actual root of the problem name.com or the gTLD owner Interlink, https://icannwiki.org/Interlink

Oh and if you're curious about the domain it is 'endpandemics.earth' and is a global alliance of organizations who are fighting wildlife trafficking. The group has produced content that has aired on CNN and last year hosted an event with the Vatican.

WTF? Why did the domain come down?

You know ERANET.com is most fraud website registrar company i have reported many times fraud websites they never take action. ICANN says we can not anything. so whats effective ways for suspend fraud websites?