ICANN takes emergency action after Alpnames seemingly shutters. This is all that’s left of Alpnames. Domain name overseer ICANN has shut down registrar Alpnames after the registrar seemingly went dark. I received an email from a customer about a week ago complaining about not being able to log in to his account. Kevin Murphy at DomainIncite has done a good job tracking the situation at Alpnames. The termination will be a good test of the…
A big story of 2019 was when a domain name registrar shut down without warning. What would you do if your domain name registrar suddenly disappeared? In 2019, domain name registrar Alpnames shut its doors without notice. ICANN subsequently stepped in to revoke its accreditation. This left domain holders in…
Customers can access their account through LogicBoxes. Domain name registrar Alpnames has imploded, leaving hundreds of thousands of domain names temporarily stuck in purgatory. Thankfully, there is a solution for customers that want to access their accounts and move domains to another registrar. Alpnames used the registrar platform LogicBoxes to…
CentralNic registrars will pick up 680,000 domain names. Three domain name registrars owned by CentralNic (London AIM: CNIC) will take over the domain names from defunct domain name registrar AlpNames. All names will be managed through the Moniker.com website. Moniker will take the domains that end in .biz, .com, .info,…