Here's the response received from NCH this morning. It seems that some effort is now being made to resolve this issue:
After much investigation, we discovered a problem with the GXP-2000 phones when registering VoIP numbers. One of the fields in the GXP register request is malformed, which makes Axon reject the request entirely.
This problem has been submitted to Grandstream, but we have no idea when they will fix it. In the meantime, we will develop our own workaround for the bug and will put it into the next release of Axon due out within the next couple of weeks. I have noted your email address down and will notify you when the next release is out.