We are keeping a close eye on the developments of the ongoing “Pool.com scandal“; the sudden announcement by Pool.com that they are shutting down an unspecified number of proxy registrars, effective January 10th.
Pool.com is thus forcing ICANN to allocate a registrar via a bidding process, for all domains that cannot be transferred out on time.
A lot of domains caught by those registrars operated by Pool.com are still in the 60-day window, during which they cannot be transferred out. These domains will be in limbo, unmanageable – until ICANN completes the adoption process.
This could take months!
The shocking fact: Pool.com operates 85 ICANN-accredited registrars, all based in Canada!
While they aren’t specifying how many they are shutting down, we are probably looking into thousands of domain names under management; some are for .CA domains as well.
Was that truly a corporate decision, made by the Pool.com CEO, Richard Schreier, or is there more to this story that’s not being publicly shared? At which point will the communications between ICANN and Pool.com be made available to the public?
Here is a list of all the registrars that Pool.com operates.
2003300 Ontario Inc. dba GetDomainsIWant.ca Internet Services Corp.
3349608 Canada Inc. dba GetYourDotInfo.com Inc.
3597245 Canada Inc. dba Nic-Name Internet Service Corp.
3684458 Canada Inc. dba Quark.ca Internet Services Corporation
6230644 Canada Inc. dba Megabyte.ca Internet Services
Abdomainations.ca Inc.
AdoptADomain.net Inc.
AvailableDomains.ca Inc.
Backup.ca Corporation
BeMyDomain.net, Inc.
BigNamesDomain.com Inc
ClassDomainNames.com Inc.
Condomainium.com Inc.
Coolhosting.ca Inc.
DomainAuthority.ca Inc.
DomainBuzz.ca Inc.
DomainCentral.ca Inc.
Domainestic.com Inc.
Domainfighter.ca Inc.
Domaingrabber.ca Inc.
DomainHeadz.ca Inc.
Domainiac.ca Inc.
DomainIdeas.ca Inc.
Domainlink.ca Inc.
DomainLuminary.ca Inc.
DomainMall.ca Inc.
DomainMarketPlace.ca Inc.
Domainos.ca Inc.
DomainParadise.ca Inc.
DomainPlaza.ca Inc.
Domainreign.ca Inc.
Domains2be.com Inc.
Domains2Go.ca Inc.
Domains4u.ca Inc.
Domainscape.ca Inc.
Domainscostless.com Inc.
DomainsFirst.ca Inc.
DomainStreet.ca Inc.
DomainVentures.ca Internet Services Corporation
Dontaskwhy.ca Inc.
EntertheDomain.com, Inc.
ExtremeDomains.ca Inc.
FabDomains.ca Inc.
GoNames.ca Inc.
GotNames.ca Inc.
Grabton.ca Inc.
Hipsearch.com Inc.
Hostmaster.ca Inc.
InvisibleDomains.com Inc.
Jaz Domain Names Ltd.
LuckyDomains.ca Inc.
Maindomain.ca Inc.
Matchnames.ca Inc.
MyNameOnline.ca Inc.
NameTorrent.ca Inc.
Notablenames.ca Inc.
PopularDomains.ca Inc.
PriceDomain.ca Internet Services Corporation
PrimeDomain.ca Inc.
PrimeRegistrar.ca Inc.
Redomainder Internet Services Corporation
RegisterMyDomains.ca Inc.
Registerone.ca Inc.
Regnow.ca Inc.
Romel Corporation
ScoopDomain.ca Inc.
SearchName.ca Inc.
Securadomain.ca Inc.
SecureDomain.ca Internet Services Corporation
Submit.ca Inc.
Super Registry Inc.
Tarton Domain Names Ltd
The Black Cow Corp.
TheDomainNameStore.ca Inc.
TheDomainShop.ca Inc.
TheGreatDomain.ca Inc.
UsefulDomains.net Inc.
WeRegisterIt.ca Inc.
WhatsYourName.ca Inc.
Whoistoolbar Corp.
Wisdomain.ca Inc.
WorldNames.ca Inc.
YourDomainCo.com Inc.
Zidodomain.ca Inc.
ZippyDomains.ca Inc.
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