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ICANN Dumps EstDomains for Fraud, Abuse
Internet Evolution: — ... . EstDomains has been trying to fight back, issuing press releases with headlines like "EstDomains, Inc Takes Next Step in Combating Spam and Malware," stating, "Once again EstDomains, Inc would like to address the interactive community and ask for co-operation to make the Internet clear and safe." Unfortunately this coincided with another Krebs post relating to Tsastsin, " A Sordid History and a Storied CEO ." As a result of ICANN's newfound boldness, approximately 281,000 domain names under EstDomains' management will be transferred to an ICANN-Accredited Registrar in ...

ICANN targeting widely known domain seller
TG Daily - All News — ... that it would be revoking their accreditation, because the company’s president Vladimir Tsastin was convicted in February in Estonia for both money laundering and online credit card fraud. The news of the conviction of Tsastin was brought to the attention to ICANN via the Washinton Post, when Brian Krebs focused on EstDomains as part of multiple investigations into the Web’s most notorious domain name sellers and website hosts. ICANN, which is responsible for the control of the Internet’s names and IP addresses, ...