Spam-Friendly Registrar ‘Dynamic Dolphin’ Shuttered
Summary: ICANN revoked the accreditation of Dynamic Dolphin, a registrar long tied to spam and cybercrime, after determining that Scott Richter was its 100% beneficial owner and that the company failed to disclose his 2003 felony grand larceny conviction in its 2011 accreditation application. ICANN ordered all domains registered with Dynamic Dolphin transferred to another registrar within 28 days, roughly five years after the reporter asked ICANN to investigate Richter's role.
Key Takeaway: A 2008 Knujon analysis cited in the piece found more than three quarters of all websites advertised through spam at the time were clustered at just 10 registrars, with Dynamic Dolphin near the top - and ICANN's remedy here is a transfer of domains, not their removal.
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