The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has terminated its Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) with EstDomains.com after the President of the company was convicted for credit card fraud, money laundering and document forgery.

This comes as welcome news by the cyber security community as EstDomains.com has been used by cyber criminals for years to hide their identities and conduct various malicious activities such as using domains for bot command & control servers, drive-by downloads as well as spamming.

Here are some links of interest that provide more information on this story:

1. F-Secure Weblog - “Case EstDomains” 
2. The Washington Post Company – “ICANN De-Accredits EstDomains for CEO’s Fraud Convictions”
3. Notice sent to EstDomains.com by ICANN (pdf)

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