ICANN pulls Registerfly's Accreditation effective IMMEDIATELY

Excellent news ! Bad services which got enough chances should be punished indeed.

 

Its about time ICANN acted, RegisterFly is falling apart due to bad management and conflict of interest between its owners, IMHO

 

ah anyone see this

http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/3926/untitledhx0.png (thanks to antman)

it was on everyones account this moring, but since than they have took it down.. gave me a good laugh.

 

Cool news?

I don't feel it cool unless ICANN make sure to transfer all domains to a new registrar given the option to pay at everyone's pace.

So, is it cool have to pay thousand dollars at once to transfer large portfolios if you have not the money to do so?

 

I am sure that ICANN will help, other than regfly just sitting on their asses and saying ¨sorry you guys have lost your online identiy¨.

Fuck registerfly and all the lowlives within the company responsible for that mess. Time for them to pay!

 

Well, I say it is Cool News because finally you can get hold of your domain name which would otherwise be trapped in Registerfly. I heard that some paid Registerfly to renew their domain names but it did not work while Registerfly pockets their money.

With the ICANN ruling now, Registerfly is compelled to allow you to transfer out of them. Granted that it would cost you money to transfer your domain name but it is not all loss because the transfer fees you pay will be used to extend your domain name by another year. Whether you pay now or later, you still need to pay the renewal fees so it is not so much an issue. Maybe it is just an issue of timing.

Besides, now you can go with a better domain name registrar or perhaps one which would be better priced with better support.

Well, I would think that if someone were to register a lot of domain names should have the money to renew them, otherwise all the enough would go to waste. That's why when I register a domain name, I do not just look at what discount I get on the first year but what I would pay in the subsequent years. That is what counts.

 

Peace out RegisterFly.

 

Guys, Registerfly's accreditation is not pulled out immediately. And neither are
they "compelled" to let you transfer your domain names out.

Take note what their announcement said:

http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-2-16mar07.htm

What they said there is exactly what they mean.

However, you'll note Registerfly's site still has the ICANN registrar logo. Their
registrar accreditation will remain until March 31, after which it's anyone's $64
guess what ICANN will do.

The only way ICANN can "compel" Registerfly to do anything is to sue them in
Court, sad to say. Hopefully it won't have to reach that point.

 

It's like a bank going bankrupt and you are a big client with $1M in your account.
I just hope Bob Parsons is not going to be like that. .

 

I wonder what is next for the fools who ran it into the ground.

 

You'd rather lose all your domains when you pay them and they don't bother registering the domain for you again?

At least now you have a shot at getting your domains out.

 

thank god i never register any domains there.. cos i might think ur domain will FLY SOMEWHERE> and it did!!

 

Renew/transfer a large portfolio is not a problem when you have to do so each month, in fact I have transferred and paid for those of February, March, and those from April are in the middle of the process.

The problem arises when your budget says that you have $X amount available per month to renew them, not the total amount a year that you pay for al of them, globally at once right now

 

I say f*** ICANN. They have known about the problems with RF for 2 years and done nothing. I hope someone sue them for money and show how incompetent they are. This is a nail in the ICANN coffin, in a few year the ICANN role will be shared around the world. ICANN f*** off. ICANN just have this role now because the US government are making heavy pressure to keep the control over internet. f*** the US government for that.

(Sorry for all the *** I did not have any suitable alternative)

 

you have some good points there, but who would expect an accredited registrar to be THAT irresponsible. They were probably hoping regfly would start doing something, which of course they didn´t. I honestly have no words for this. The value of domains that people have lost because of those scumbags who didn´t even try to do anything to help their clients out. This is something without precedence.

 

Well, the thing is that there were telltale signs with Registerfly about 2 to 3 years ago but that notwithstanding, it would be unfair for the gaining registrar to pay for the problems which Registerfly created and also waive charges. Registerfly is not going to compensate them anyways. They cannot offer free or anything too low because come the next renewal, I am sure a huge bunch of people who transfer their domain name elsewhere to take advantage of yet another discount from somewhere else and the gaining registrar end up losing tons of money supporting for free.

I know it is unfair that you are caught in this longstanding issue. My suggestion is find one way or another to pay for the transfer of the domain names that you intend to keep then start a class action suit against Registerfly to get back your money from them. Whether it would work or not, I have no idea.

The other option would be to lose your domain names.

 

I am so happy I do not live near Kevin Medinas house.... but I am sure they will pay, one way or anoyher.

 

Yes he will, this is going to come back around bigtime!

 

I'll bet someone at ICANN is thinking, "This guy oughta be in our shoes, then
maybe he'll see how f****** hard it is to compel a registrar to do A or B."

Some things aren't easy as others like to believe. And heavens, there are a
few things even worse than ICANN.

 

If they have no money then a lawsuit is just throwing good money after bad. This is the other side of those questions in the legal section about forming a corporation or LLC to avoid personal liability.