Regfly.com is Kevin Medina

schnitzeldorf:

Please dont take any of my points personally. I do understand yours and others frustration regarding the registerfly fiasco, I too lost some domains and it just goes to prove that nobody should keep all thier domains at any one registrar.

As you state above that ICANN is the root of the problem, IMHO going after one scammer or a few scammers like Kevin wont effect ICANN however if you are the type of person that I think you are would'nt your time be better spent exposing the vulnerabilities within ICANN?

I personally think that the Kevin Medina saga is old news just google the name and see for yourself, I for one would be a supporter of a blog/news/expose type website of ICANN's deficiancies again just my 2 cents

Dont think for a second I agree with some of ICANN's questionable practices and those big companies mentioned above that take rules to the extreme aqnd in turn hurt us all, but as you have stated its all about the money.

Good luck exposing all these problems, Now thats going to be a full time job but as you are well aware that the more you expose them and the more people become outraged the more people in authority tend to listen.

TT

fonzie_007 said:

My guess is that someone figured out RF's assets are gone (and/or hidden), meaning that even if a lawsuit is successful, there will only be a judgment and nothing to collect.

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Bingo

Agreed and not taken personally. ICANN may lose it's contract upon expire. Not sure yet but the new Registerflies.com website will not be directed solely at Regfly.com or Kevin Medina. Currently it is what it is and the content is old and the site very unorganized. So we're going to have a page for the Registerfly debacle, possibly on another website altogether.

One thing that I'd like to point out though is that when I started the Registerflies website I was livid about my domain names. Over the past couple years my interests have changed. Philosophy and building community is much more productive and much more interesting to me. Registerflies consumed a lot of time and energy and cost me personally much more than gained. When the site went down in August, I was going to leave it down and walk away from the entire ordeal. It was started with negative energy and when one consumes his or her time in negative energy it's not all that great.

Through Registerflies I've met a lot of neat people and have established some friendships that wouldn't otherwise been possible, but I'm a low key guy. Still growing up and still learning how to be a better person. I'm not sure how involved I really want to be in all this and certainly want to take what started out as a negative website and either turn it into something very positive or let it go completely.

So, the plan is to take registerflies and make it into a review site for all services or most services related to domain names. Where users create the content and not myself. Where registrars or organizations doing bad business will be flagged and held responsible for their actions rather than dodging the bullet. Registerflies, set up correctly, would push these companies towards towing the line and following procedures and provide an environment to make them better companies. Right now it's the wild west. There are a lot of review sites that are paid off by advertisers. I've actually talked with some of the owners of some very big sites that are paid.

One of the biggest problems that plagues this industry as well as our entire population is greed, money and ego have become what's important to so many of us. It's the way it is but it's the core of all the problems. People aren't working in balance with each other to lift their neighbor. Instead they want to step on heads to get to the top and they don't care who it hurts to get them there. They must balance their tires on their car, the balance their check books, they work on a balanced diet and all those other instances where balance is such an integral part of the whole scenario... yet when it comes to balance in transactions it's way off the mark.

I don't want to get all philosophical about this and I've been reluctant to do so but philosophy is my interest.

Needless to say, Registerflies is up for the purpose of being found in a search and preserving a historical event. Registerflies 2.0 is on the burner and will be implemented as time permits.

Thank you all for your supportive comments and I do hope you will support the efforts being put into the new site when it's ready and it's going to take a whole lot of people who stand for the right thing to make it work.

Let's saddle up and ride...

Personally, Justin is my "Man of the Year" last year. Maybe he'll get the nod this year for his ICANN expose. I 100% agree with his views on ICANN.

thanks Justin for keeping us informed all these years.
I've visited your site a lot in those days.

TT said:

Just my 2 cents

everyone in this business knows about the registerfly fiasco by now...

they would be lucky to house a few thousand domains even under rebranding...

i also remember the registerflies website, which during its run was a wealth of information ( for those that cared )

My only concern is that with these new revelations it "appears" to me that the OP may have a vendetta against Kevin Medina. Now I am not trying to protect this slug but it sounds like an ex after the relationship is over and the other partner gets involved with a new girl that the jilted ex will continue for other reasons that are not relevant because they cant move on.

Take it for what its worth, the regly, registerfly whatever fly they want to call it is DEAD nobody in thier right mind would buy a coffee let alone online property from any fly offering anything for sale. So to the OP I say let it die just like you did before, I know google ads and page views are valuable but to continue to post about Kevin is time not well spent.

We all know he is a scumbag , lying thief , we have all moved on and so should you I for one will never be re-visiting this saga nor registerflies again.

TT

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Thats probably because the actual problems with registerfly was because of two ex-partners squabbling. Gay partners no less. So you can imagine the squabbling was/is exX10. Most of the information that was being fed to registerflies.com was via jilted lover.

Thanks and one thing

Don't assume everyone knows that regfly sucks. Plenty of new domainers entering the game everyday. Even if they only rope in a few folks thats sucks.

Whats funny is that those dumb$#Ses still have that typo on their website. How hard is it to spell included???

Thank you all for the kind words and the encouragement. For some reason I had not been notified of responses to this thread so I wanted to take a moment to say thank you.

Most of the information that was being fed to registerflies.com was via jilted lover.

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While some of the information has been delivered by the ex-partner, much of it also comes from employees, co-workers as well as others. There's also more information that remains undisclosed from a number of resources outside of anyone who works within the company. Also, the door has always been open for Kevin to respond to any or all of this. Silence in this case has not exactly been his friend.

Let me also state that I have nothing against any one of these individuals. I couldn't even begin to imagine walking in the shoes of Kevin Medina. On a personal level, there are no qualms however, on a business level Registerfly has proven not to be a good thing and many of us were effected by poor business decisions and Kevin has not only chosen to remain silent, but to reopen another site and go back to what he was doing previously. Is this going to lead to a disaster in the end? Not exactly sure but if it were me, I'd first want to clear some things up with those I had hurt before going on to do it again.

Based on the attitude within the chats, (and Bob is Kevin), it really doesn't seem like much has changed. It's a sad thing to see a company self destruct for any reason... especially a company that could have eventually risen to compete with GoDaddy... of course GoDaddy is another issue altogether.

Either way, the back breaker in all these cases has been ICANN. They provide the checks but not the balances and it simply doesn't work that way. ICANN alone has enabled companies like Registerfly to break the rules, rip-off customers and then continue on like nothing happened. Kevin claimed to have owned Registerfly wholly, Kevin should be in jail for what he did, not leaning on Tucows to get him back in action. Furthermore, Mike Zupke of ICANN shouldn't even be in ICANN any longer. Much of what happened to the Registerfly customers can be pinned on Zupke... yet we are still paying his wages.

ICANN is up for contract renewal within the next year-and-a-half and I have been in contact with certain officials that have requested certain documentation regarding the Registerfly debacle as well as information on how ICANN has handled it. That's about all I can disclose at this time.

We need some fresh blood in the organization or we need to put an organization in it's place that will not only write the policy but also enforce the policies as needed.

So, I'll keep everyone up to date and do my best not to take sides. The enemy here is not Kevin Medina, it's the people and companies that have enabled Kevin and Registerfly and Regfly.com to continue doing what they've done.

Peace!

schnitzeldorf said:

Thank you all for the kind words and the encouragement. For some reason I had not been notified of responses to this thread so I wanted to take a moment to say thank you.

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:hi:

Did you subscribe to this thread?

You do it under THREAD TOOLS at the top of the page.

That might help.

Patrick

Hi I don't know all these big stories previous.
I had registered lot of domains @ Registerfly.com & All of a sudden they were moved to godaddy!!

But I like the older days of registerfly where I registered .net domains @ 2.99$, .info @ 0.99$ and some times .com @5.99 or even less. They issued discount codes every 2 weeks & made me to register lot of names. Happy they are back to business. But I'm waiting for them to release discount codes.. Correct me if I'm wrong.

greatwebss said:

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Happy they are back to business. But I'm waiting for them to release discount codes.. Correct me if I'm wrong.

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It looks like you missed the whole story
You should search the forum for 'registerfly'

greatwebss said:

Hi I don't know all these big stories previous.
I had registered lot of domains @ Registerfly.com & All of a sudden they were moved to godaddy!!

But I like the older days of registerfly where I registered .net domains @ 2.99$, .info @ 0.99$ and some times .com @5.99 or even less. They issued discount codes every 2 weeks & made me to register lot of names. Happy they are back to business. But I'm waiting for them to release discount codes.. Correct me if I'm wrong.

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This is a perfect example of why RegisterFly needs to be shut down permanently.

greatwebss said:

Hi I don't know all these big stories previous.
I had registered lot of domains @ Registerfly.com & All of a sudden they were moved to godaddy!!

But I like the older days of registerfly where I registered .net domains @ 2.99$, .info @ 0.99$ and some times .com @5.99 or even less. They issued discount codes every 2 weeks & made me to register lot of names. Happy they are back to business. But I'm waiting for them to release discount codes.. Correct me if I'm wrong.

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/sarcasm
:hehe:

greatwebss said:

Hi I don't know all these big stories previous.
I had registered lot of domains @ Registerfly.com & All of a sudden they were moved to godaddy!!

But I like the older days of registerfly where I registered .net domains @ 2.99$, .info @ 0.99$ and some times .com @5.99 or even less. They issued discount codes every 2 weeks & made me to register lot of names. Happy they are back to business. But I'm waiting for them to release discount codes.. Correct me if I'm wrong.

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What are those old sayings ,Ah yes I remember now.
A Sucker born every Minute.
A fool and his money are soon parted.
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Do NOT even consider using RegFly.com for any new Purchases
If you need discount Codes to afford to buy names , than you can't afford to be Ripped OFF.

Do search on namepros to locate Current Discount codes for other registrars or resellers.
If you can't find any PM me and I will find some for you ,just don't use RegFLY.com

Barefoottech said:

What are those old sayings ,Ah yes I remember now.
A Sucker born every Minute.
A fool and his money are soon parted.
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Do NOT even consider using RegFly.com for any new Purchases
If you need discount Codes to afford to buy names , than you can't afford to be Ripped OFF.

Do search on namepros to locate Current Discount codes for other registrars or resellers.
If you can't find any PM me and I will find some for you ,just don't use RegFLY.com

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I have several UGLY threads about my personal experiences with RF, I lost a few sweet names (xxx and x,xxx range) during the debacle, and know other members that lost 100's each.

I have called them everything from thugs to punks, I still have screenshots and emails of deleted support tickets, paid transactions that never went through and no refund, unasked for privacy that included NS changes... all kinds of crap... so my advice to ANYONE wanting to save some $ on the coupons/specials... the grief aint worth it, period.

GRRRR, now I'm thinking about them again.

~ Cyberian ~ said:

I have several UGLY threads about my personal experiences with RF, I lost a few sweet names (xxx and x,xxx range) during the debacle, and know other members that lost 100's each.

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I lost quite a few domains worth around $10-$20 each and I got pissed enough. If I would've lost domains worth over $1-2K, they would've had to take both me and Medina to the hospital... to surgically remove my foot from his @$$.

briman1970 said:

I lost quite a few domains worth around $10-$20 each and I got pissed enough. If I would've lost domains worth over $1-2K, they would've had to take both me and Medina to the hospital... to surgically remove my foot from his @$$.

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He might have enjoyed that... :hehe:













































oooops, did I say that out loud?

~ Cyberian ~ said:

oooops, did I say that out loud?

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:lol:

In all seriousness though, I'm really surprised that the guy is still walking around. Losing gobs of money due to the actions of another can do strange things to certain people. Are there no wackos in this industry?

How about some evidence?

Dutchleader said:

thanks Justin for keeping us informed all these years.
I've visited your site a lot in those days.

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Not a problem. I'm about to inform everyone of a whole lot more. I've noticed their page ranking going up and I've acquired some information that may help those who have lost domains.

I've recently received a package that nearly blew me away and since the lawsuit has no legs, ICANN is doing nothing (as usual) and these people continue to try to rip people off, now with the help of Tucows and ShareASale.com, I'm thinking it's an appropriate time to give the general public enough information to form a real class-action with some real attorneys.

If there's an attorney out there who may have been on the fence due to lack of real evidence... Not any more! :bingo:

This evidence was to be used for the Class Action originally but since it never got off the ground, I would imagine one of the ex-employees thought it be best if this evidence was sent to me. I'm speaking with my legal counselor about this now so watch for the updates on Registerflies!

.... it's going to get real interesting from here on out!