September 4, 2002 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers reportedly threatened to rescind VeriSign's domain-registering right on Tuesday, saccusing the company of breaching its contract by failing to repair inaccurate customer information in a timely fashion.
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ICANN pointed to the company?s Whois database, which holds the contact information for people who register Web addresses. ICANN cited 17 violations over the past 18 months that have yet to be corrected, including several instances of obviously fake information.
The organization is said to have given VeriSign 15 days to correct the problem or face losing its rights to sell domain names.
VeriSign said the issue would be resolved within a week. While VeriSign sees the issue as important, the company points out that out of 10.3 million records, 17 inaccurate entries is by no means a pattern.
VeriSign is the largest operator of registries for top-level domains, operating the .com, .net and .org registries.
ICANN?s letter to VeriSign executives said the company appeared to frequently publish incomplete Whois data, while ignoring reports of inaccurate information in its Whois database. The company?s violations reportedly include ignoring requests to correct customer information for Dundjerski.com, for which the administrative contact was "OOO Blank St., No City, XX 0000" with the phone number "123-123-1234."
