Re: ICANN verification

[Warren Kumari <warren () kumari net>]

If you let people know the domain name, you might have more luck — e.g
someone who works at the registrar may look into it, etc.
Also, it seems surprising that this would be an **ICANN** verification
message…

W


On Fri, Feb 14, 2025 at 8:48 AM, Marco Belmonte <nanog () nanog org> wrote:

> The company I work for owns a domain that was registered by an employee
> that no longer works for us and we have been unable to track them down. 48
> hours ago the website at the domain was replaced by an ICANN verification
> message.
>
> It offers two solutions - neither is possible at the moment:
>
> 1) resend a verification email - but we already tried that and monitored
> the mailbox for the old employee but nothing ever came so we think he might
> have registered it with a personal account.
>
> 2) access the portal of the registrar but since don't have credentials and
> we already tried the reset password link hoping again that if we monitored
> his old corporate email account we'd see something appear but again nothing
> :-(
>
> At this point we aren't sure what to do - the site is down and ICANN needs
> validation of who the site owners are. Does anyone have any ideas or can
> give us some direction?
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Marco Belmonte