So did a lot of people, especially when they don't care to read the fine print. Then again, it's my long-time observation that many people don't care about the details except to get results based on what they're willing to pay. The worst ICANN can do (or probably did by this time) is to zap Registerfly's registrar accreditation. But they'll still have to sue in court, get a favorable decision, and serve it ASAP on Registerfly to even remotely force them to un- lock any remaining domain names and provide auth codes to those that still don't have them. No, no one has a magic wand to wave around and poof! everything's a-ok.
I need some advice. My sites still with registerfly, lost their nameserver settings so of course they are now offline. I can login in to registerfly normally, but I can't change nameservers. They say it's because my domain is expired (whois agrees) even though I renewed until 2010. I'm pretty lost as to how to get my sites back online - it will be impossible with no nameservers.