I doubt Registerfly will close. That will only happen if ICANN pulls their accreditation which is unlikely to happen. ICANN can't admit its role or accept any legal liability in this scandal and will do everything it can to keep Registerfly open. Tens of thousands of domains have been lost and pulling Registerfly's accreditation would admit over-sight fault on ICANN's part. Better to keep them open and help them clean up their act to show that "the system works". Meanwhile Registerfly has nothing on their site to indicate that something is amiss and they keep getting new unsuspecting customers everyday - with ICANN's approval.
Well what I read is that registerfly is back in hands of the guy Kevin, who spent lavishly on himself with company funds while thousands of domains were lost. Don't know if this is true, but I do know Registerfly has terrible customer service, incompetent management and a website that doesn't work too well. That much I do know. The post above from Unified Name therefore means nothing.
RegisterFly.com will steal your better domain names from you. It's really very simple. They have created offshore corporations that pickup your dropped domains before they actually drop. They have sold my domains from my account before they expired. They have chnaged ownership records and delted domains I paid for. They have redirected DNS and stolen my traffic. I corrected the DNS mistakes and they simply break them again. The company would go out of business if everyone knew how horrible they are. For the n00bs in here with a handful of junk domains I suggest you get a grip on reality. These people are crooks. They have taken premium domains worth many thousands of dollars and Icann.org is useless. They lost 75,000 domains recently because they failed to renew them. The only way they stay in business is if silly ignorant people keep doing business with them.
Termination of RegisterFly.com Registrar Accreditation Agreement http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-2-16mar07.htm
I have domains at registerfly and have never had a problem, unfortunately they are now losing their ICANN license and I will have to transfer them all When they were still a domain company, I liked the good site design and navigation of the profile pages.
DPH, same here, never had a problem, although their support sucks a bit with knowledge of domain business. I can say that I managed to transfer all my domains from regfly now (5) without a problem. Bye Bye, regfly. P.S: I would never thought a solid company with 900K customers like regfly will fall apart like that.
IF you didnt already hear .. RegisterFly was run by two gay lovers who had a nasty break up and one tried to fire the founder saying he spend boat loads of cash on escorts, lyposuction and a miami penthouse. Turned out the guy who fired the founder actually had no valid stock in the company and after weeks of lying, it was taken to court and the judge gave the company back to the original guy.
I have a couple of domains with registerfly expiring within a few days - so I can't transfer them (at least namecheap say so). What should I do? Should I wait until they expire? Will I be able to re-buy them as soon as they expire from another registrar?
zamolxes, I had a similar situation with one of my domain names. I paid the money in January to renew it, but for some reason regfly did not renew it, but kept my money. In my account within regfly it was saying that renewal process finished and it expires next year. However, I checked on major whois sites and it was saying that it will expire on 5th April this year. I had no problems trasnfering it to DynaDot though (around 15-20 March period). Maybe you should try with them and see.
I'm having some trouble transferring out. One came through, 2 have invalid auth. codes and the last one I'm just not sure about. Says pending approval, but we'll see. So what do you suppose will happen? Assuming you have some time before they expire, if we sit tight will they eventually transfer?
I had tried over 2 weeks to transfer over 100 of my domains from RegisterFly and was successful with majority of them. I wrote about my problematic domains (such that had RRP or blank auth code) to . I know it sounds a little bizarre, but today, after 72 hours since sending my email, I received reply telling that my domains have authorization codes available. And it was true. I still have one domain with mixed-up whois information and some domains younger then 60 days (I am not worried about the young ones) at RegisterFly. Please use following form when writing to Oscar: 1. Domain name: 2. RegisterFly account name: 3. Associated email address: 4. Brief explanation of problem: 5. Last attempt to solve situation through registerfly.com :