ICANN, the organization charged with overseeing the address system of the internet, has revoked the right of notorious registrar EstDomains to sell domain names. EstDomains is known as a registrar that caters to phishers, spammers, and other cybercriminals. ICANN handed down its decision after the company’s president was convicted of fraud.

          “This termination is based on your status as President of EstDomains and your credit card fraud, money laundering and document forgery conviction,” Stacy Burnette, ICANN’s director of contractual compliance, wrote. ICANN rules permit the group to terminate registrars who have officers or directors convicted of a crime related to financial activities, she said.

Among the activities EstDomain’s hosting is used for are spamming, malware distribution, phishing,and sites selling fake drugs or those illegal in some countries. Not surprisingly, the company denies this.

          “We don’t provide the service for spammers/phishers etc, and we never did,” Konstantin Poltev, registry liaison for EstDomains, wrote in an email to The Register on Wednesday.

ICANN will oversee the transfer of the 281,000 domains under EstDomain’s management. However, since many of the company’s domains are used for malicious purposes, it’s doubful any legit host will be willing to take them aboard.