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by maxvu 3217 days ago
Is there any history of ICANN muscling registrars? What do they have to negotiate with?
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ICANN could in theory revoke the ability of the registrar to operate. Meaning that they could be put out of business pretty easily. That said I doubt that ICANN would actually do this on a first offense kind of thing. ICANN can also forcibly take the domain from the current registrar and cause a transfer to someone else instead. I think that is what will likely happen if NS doesn't get rid of the parking/stealing of the domain.
ICANNs primary reason for existing is to "muscle" registrars. Their job is to enforce the rules.