ICANN pulls Registerfly's Accreditation effective IMMEDIATELY

The news is in. This is it and official, ICANN has in fact stripped Registerfly of the Accreditation effective IMMEDIATELY!

ICANN today issued a formal notice of termination of RegisterFly.com's Registration Accreditation Agreement (RAA).

ICANN has issued a letter to RegisterFly [PDF, 902K] indicating that it will cease operating as an ICANN-Accredited Registrar on March 31, 2007. Under the terms of the Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA), ICANN must provide 15 days written notice to RegisterFly of its intention to terminate.

Effective immediately ICANN has terminated RegisterFly's right to use the ICANN Accredited Registrar logo on its website.

Between now and 31 March RegisterFly is required to unlock and provide all necessary Authinfo codes to allow domain name transfers to occur. Any and all registrants wishing to transfer away from RegisterFly during this period should be allowed to do so efficiently and expeditiously.

"Terminating accreditation is the strongest measure ICANN is able to take against RegisterFly under its powers," Dr. Paul Twomey, President and CEO of ICANN said today.

"ICANN has been frustrated and distressed by recent management confusion inside RegisterFly," Dr. Twomey, President said. "I completely understand the greater frustration and enormous difficulty that this has created for registrants."

When the Agreement is terminated, ICANN can approve a bulk transfer of all current RegisterFly domain names to another ICANN accredited Registrar.

"Of course, RegisterFly does not have to wait till then. They can request ICANN to approve a bulk transfer immediately. I call on RegisterFly to act in the interests of registrants and seek such a transfer from us straight away," Dr. Twomey said.

ICANN intends to hold a forum to discuss the reform of the Accreditation policy and process at its Lisbon meeting in a week's time*.

A set of questions and points to inform the discussion will be made public prior to the Lisbon meeting.

* The Lisbon meeting is one of three meetings held a year by ICANN to meet with global stakeholders. It will take place from 26-30 March 2007.

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EDIT: link to ICANN page. http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-2-16mar07.htm



great news IMHO

~Chris

 

Interesting. I wonder where everyone will go with their names.

 

Cool News! At least this means that people who had been unfortunate to signed up with Registryfly can get away from their bondage and start afresh.

I supposed that other registrars would have a busy time filling in the orders for the transfer.

I do hope that Registryfly plays honest and actually comply to the notice to allow their customers to move their domain names out.

 

So this would mean that people who own domains at regfly have to pay $$$ for transfer?

 

Yeah, I'm getting murdered here. Screw it. I'll leave the .infos

 

I only have 14 left there and going to ditch 13 of them, I don't have the money nor are they worth the shit I would have to go though. GL to everyone thats moving out a lot of domains, you will need it.

 

several million bucks of bzness going to gd

 

Thanks atlast this got sorted out.

Had been in pain from many days.

 

Yes, this is a total chaos.

 

man, can you imagine how many domain names registered with them???, that's a total chaos and well, have to be fast to get out of the burning place.

 

I had 4 names there and renewed them all but registerfly never actually renewed them so I lost 3 and the fourth I got out of there with the help of enom.
They owe me some money but I'll never see that.
There are some promotions going on for those moving their domains out of registerfly.
Here are 2 I know of:
$6.25 transfers into Godaddy - https://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/transfers/registerfly.asp

$5 transfers to http://www.mydomain.com/
(coupon code "registerflies" )

The $5 makes it a little easier on those with hundreds/thousands of names but I don't know why anyone would have hundreds or thousands of names at regfly as they have always been pretty bad to deal with.

 

Finally they did it. Great decision by ICANN

 

Real shame. To think they had such a rosy future back then.

But...I'm not shedding tears on their eventual demise.

 

It has more than 200,000 customers, including entertainer Michael Jackson. Now question comes how secure is our domain?

 

This was bound to happen. I hope all you guys pulled your domains on time as it will be a real pain the read to get your domains sorted out now.

 

The Registerfly site still has the ICANN logo and is still registering domains for unsuspecting customers.

 

I know, I've never seen an absolute mess like this before.

 

All the registrars out there are getting small pieces of the pie with the domains from registerfly being transfered. But after March 31st, one of them will step in and invest in a bulk transfer of all remaining domains at registerfly. They will basically buy out the company, and take over all of the remaining customers.

 

Hopefully they pull a couple of other accreditations too, such as the one from capitoldomains.net who are just f## domain kiters!

 

They took my hands off my domains since nov 2006 already

one of my domains was parked and getting 200$/month

now i'm happy to see them sinking