URGENT: The Empire Strikes Back: RegisterFly's (former?) CEO's Response (allegedly)

name idol · Feb 24, 2007

Move over Hollywood, life is more dramatic than anything your scriptwriters can come up with.

Just when we thought the 'good guys' within RF won and an 'evil' CEO was defeated, here comes the next installment in the RF saga (quoting from registerflies.com - the best gripe site on the subject, without any way of independently verifying this info on my part):

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CEASE ALL TRANSACTIONS WITH REGISTERFLY!
Written by Administrator
Friday, 23 February 2007
Site Hacked and Data Corrupted

Attention everyone. I just received confirmation that the Registerfly site has currently been hacked into and taken over by Kevin Medina in the Florida office. I was asked to put this up here due to the amount of customers that are sending money. At this moment, they are trying to get police in Florida to arrest Kevin immediately.

I'm relaying a message that they have asked me to put up on here. They have lost control of even the site and are locked out of the system. The data has been corrupted but they do have a back up and are scrambling to get this situation resolved.

Your support forms on this site will be held right now and forwarded when we know the proper management team has control of the data.

This is only what I've been told and this is currently the only medium of communication that the current management of Registerfly has. More updates soon.

"I see on your main site that you say that we don’t have any access to help customers. That isn’t entirely true. We do have access but it is very limited. We just don’t have any access to make updates to the website over the weekend. I feel we will have full access back on Monday and I found out something that will most certainly have kevin arrested and put in prison for a very long time."
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-Adam- · Feb 24, 2007

...it's a temper tantrum involving two adults with other peoples money. I imagine it won't belong for this actually makes TV press considering how in depth this is turning out to be.

name idol · Feb 24, 2007

yep, and movie rights are probably available on the cheap given that the most likely future book writers are clearly very busy now...

alex_d · Feb 24, 2007

Registerflythemovie.com is available is anyone is interested ??

Just make sure you dont reg it at Registerfly though

name idol · Feb 24, 2007

For those who haven't followed developments closely, here is the 'Good' Guys' explanation, as it appears on registerflies.com (the famous gripe site):

http://registerflies.com/official-statement-from-registerfly.html

Archangel · Feb 24, 2007

I can't even log into my account

And I had 6-8 domains there to remove from redemption period.

fonzie_007 · Feb 24, 2007

RF should consider another business tactic--charging people $ to transfer out a domain. Raise your hands if you'd pay $ to get your domain out of RF ASAP?

name idol · Feb 25, 2007

Adopted by show of hands!

So much money, so little to do with it...

But seriously, what would you recommend doing in these circumstances?

Would you login and try to get your EPP codes, knowing that the SSL has expired and (even more seriously) the site is allegedly hacked?

Would that not inform the alleged hacker about which among a million or so domains are more likely to be worth stealing? If yes, is the potential gain worth the risk do you think?

accent · Feb 25, 2007

name idol said:
yep, and movie rights are probably available on the cheap given that the most likely future book writers are clearly very busy now...

It looks like at least some of them will have plenty of time soon enough. PLENTY of time.

After a year of dithering and saying it was not their responsibility, ICANN gave Regfly 15 (business) days to pull itself together. So, perhaps the cavalry is coming. It doesn't look like anything will happen, good or bad, for a few days - apparently the site data has been messed up, there is a backup, but sorting it all will take time.

If you still have some time on your domains the best thing to do may be to sit tight. If they are about to expire or have expired I have not found any good advice for you, except to follow the drama on registerflies.com.

ICANN is facing a major PR debacle if a significant number of people lose their domains/websites. Picture the Time magazine cover story: Ma and Pa built this website business from scratch in 4 years of hard work to where they were netting $$,$$$ per month only to have their renewal payment stolen, the name sold on Snapnames and the site now filled with porn.

ICANN is in deeeeeeeeep doodoo.
Wonder if they have noticed yet?

Static · Feb 25, 2007

Archangel said:
I can't even log into my account And I had 6-8 domains there to remove from redemption period.

I'm having the same problem.

I've been trying to login, but it says that my user account doesn't exist. I try to retrieve my account information via the domain and the username, but still no luck.

My information for this domain is on the WHOIS. Anyone know how I could maybe get control of it so I can transfer it out?

Thanks.

floatingworld · Feb 25, 2007

name idol said:
Move over Hollywood, life is more dramatic than anything your scriptwriters can come up with.

Just when we thought the 'good guys' within RF won and an 'evil' CEO was defeated, here comes the next installment in the RF saga (quoting from registerflies.com - the best gripe site on the subject, without any way of independently verifying this info on my part):

=======
CEASE ALL TRANSACTIONS WITH REGISTERFLY!
Written by Administrator
Friday, 23 February 2007
Site Hacked and Data Corrupted

Attention everyone. I just received confirmation that the Registerfly site has currently been hacked into and taken over by Kevin Medina in the Florida office. I was asked to put this up here due to the amount of customers that are sending money. At this moment, they are trying to get police in Florida to arrest Kevin immediately.

I'm relaying a message that they have asked me to put up on here. They have lost control of even the site and are locked out of the system. The data has been corrupted but they do have a back up and are scrambling to get this situation resolved.

Your support forms on this site will be held right now and forwarded when we know the proper management team has control of the data.

This is only what I've been told and this is currently the only medium of communication that the current management of Registerfly has. More updates soon.

"I see on your main site that you say that we don’t have any access to help customers. That isn’t entirely true. We do have access but it is very limited. We just don’t have any access to make updates to the website over the weekend. I feel we will have full access back on Monday and I found out something that will most certainly have kevin arrested and put in prison for a very long time."
=======

You can be sure that the above statement is a fake, but since any holders of regfly names are currently in the equivalent position of being locked into the top end of a big dipper then it might as well be true. Good luck with transferring names out to bargaindomains-r-us mark 2 (otherwise known as 1+1) :tri:

Archangel · Feb 25, 2007

I think I've lost my domains. They went into redemption period around the 14th or so. I went to take them out but ha, the site's messed up. I tried putting them into eNom via a migration link they emaled me but eNom doesn't recognize my customer number. I emailed eNom about it and they requsted that I send them a copy of my ID and a billion other things.

"Registerfly: the Movie
One company, one dream, one royal f*ck-up... coming soon"

Kate · Feb 25, 2007

Needless to say neither registerfly nor ICANNT are going to indemnify domain holders for the names lost

kev · Feb 25, 2007

dear oh dear...the saga continues. im just glad i never spent a penny at Rf

good luck to those with names there

airwav · Feb 26, 2007

I am able to get into my RF account and successfully transfered 5 domains this week, including one that was due to expire the same day I transfered it.

cdboard · Feb 26, 2007

I just logged in and changed nameservers for one of my .INFO domains. I verified the change using betterwhois.com.

fonzie_007 · Feb 26, 2007

Has anyone been able to find an EPP code for any .us domain at RF?

night707 · Feb 26, 2007

criminals

I have reported the ICANN and registerfly.com as a criminal minded organization at www.ic3.gov

ICANN received big money from registerfly.com mobster and it is about time to investigate why ICANN has not stopped the still ongoing fraud and thievery at their website.

registerfly is still in business ... and the FBI should instantly stop it.

vslevin · Feb 26, 2007

I tried to register about 5 .infos there about a month ago, but the order form wouldn't submit, I'm sure glad now.

I hope that everyone is able to get their domains back safely, but I wouldn't hold my breath.

Archangel · Feb 26, 2007

night707 said:
I have reported the ICANN and registerfly.com as a criminal minded organization at www.ic3.gov

ICANN received big money from registerfly.com mobster and it is about time to investigate why ICANN has not stopped the still ongoing fraud and thievery at their website.

registerfly is still in business ... and the FBI should instantly stop it.

Uh... ICANN is already looking into it. Why do you think this thread was started?

seeker · Feb 26, 2007

fonzie_007 said:
Has anyone been able to find an EPP code for any .us domain at RF?

no, not for .us nor .biz
I thought it had to do because I bought the names and they were regged through Enom (before rf became accredited).

I emailed for the EPP codes with no reply of course...

fonzie_007 · Feb 26, 2007

seeker said:
no, not for .us nor .biz
I thought it had to do because I bought the names and they were regged through Enom (before rf became accredited).

I emailed for the EPP codes with no reply of course...

All of my .us domains at RF say they are registered with Tucows. I'm guessing that RF somehow has a reseller account for .us domains with Tucows. I'm not sure if it would do me any good contacting Tucows for the EPP codes.

Jeffrey · Feb 26, 2007

Whatta! Mr. Medina used RFs money for liposuction for himself!

fonzie_007 · Feb 26, 2007

Anyone have a picture of Mr. Medina pre and post lipo?

Archangel · Feb 26, 2007

Jeffrey said:
Whatta! Mr. Medina used RFs money for liposuction for himself!

He probably paid for lobotomy, too.

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