Don't Forget to Renew Domain Names, Lest an FCC-Regulated Company Face Sorenson-Like Fines, Firm Blogs
A communications law firm reminded those with websites to renew domain names and register valuable ones to those companies and not their vendors, saying it finds these "recurring problems striking regularly." Microsoft, Jeb Bush, the Dallas Cowboys and, recently, Sorenson…
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Communications let domains lapse, blogged ICANN expert Kathy Kleiman of Fletcher Heald. Sorenson's goof meant its site was inaccessible, so "customers could not receive or place video relay service, 911, and other calls," she wrote Tuesday, in a post emailed the next day. For a “preventable, internal operational failure,” a September FCC Enforcement Bureau order (see 1709290056) said the company agreed to reimburse the Telecom Relay Service Fund $2.7 million and pay a $252,000 settlement, Kleiman noted. She recommended automatic domain renewal. Sorenson didn't comment.