If you let people know the domain name, you might have more luck — e.g someone who works at the registrar may look into it, etc. Also, it seems surprising that this would be an **ICANN** verification message…
W On Fri, Feb 14, 2025 at 8:48 AM, Marco Belmonte <nanog@nanog.org> wrote: > The company I work for owns a domain that was registered by an employee > that no longer works for us and we have been unable to track them down. 48 > hours ago the website at the domain was replaced by an ICANN verification > message. > > It offers two solutions - neither is possible at the moment: > > 1) resend a verification email - but we already tried that and monitored > the mailbox for the old employee but nothing ever came so we think he might > have registered it with a personal account. > > 2) access the portal of the registrar but since don't have credentials and > we already tried the reset password link hoping again that if we monitored > his old corporate email account we'd see something appear but again nothing > :-( > > At this point we aren't sure what to do - the site is down and ICANN needs > validation of who the site owners are. Does anyone have any ideas or can > give us some direction? > > Kind Regards, > > Marco Belmonte >