[meganlanziello]

Fwiw: https://icannwiki.org/Larry_Erlich

https://www.nytimes.com/1999/10/11/business/e-commerce-repor...

The company was sold to a large provider of LLC's a few years ago. The web page gives the impression somewhat that Larry is still involved but he's not. It's PR on behalf of the company that bought them (a large company that primarily registers LLC's).

> Neither of these have Wikipedia entries.

(I have done contracting for them.) This is on purpose not everybody wants to have widespread publicity. And in fact very little is known about the company that acquired them and that also is on purpose. The sale was done quietly and not announced.

> They claim they've been "accredited since 1996".

It doesn't say that at all. It says they were founded in 1996 (true) and '3rd oldest ICANN-accredited registrar still in operation' (most likely true since they were in the initial post testbed approval batch). That said saying 'we founded' is wrong; the company who owns them now didn't start the company the founder did.