ICANN terminated its accreditation agreement with registrar DNGLOBE LLC for failure to comply with the requirements of the Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA), the contract between ICANN and registrars that governs the registration of domain names under generic top-level domains such as dot-com and dot-org. The termination letter has been sent to DNGLOBE outlining the decision and reasons behind the decision: icann.org/correspondence/pritz-to-smirnoff-05feb10-en.pdf [PDF, 1,850K] To protect registrants, ICANN has initiated a process to identify a qualified and accredited registrar to take over management of the domain names formerly managed by DNGLOBE LLC through a bulk transfer. Guidance is provided below for registrants who may be affected by this action