ICANN pulls Registerfly's Accreditation effective IMMEDIATELY.

[angisson]

The news is in. This is it and official, ICANN has in fact stripped Registerfly of the Accreditation effective IMMEDIATELY!

ICANN today issued a formal notice of termination of RegisterFly.com's Registration Accreditation Agreement (RAA).

ICANN has issued a letter to RegisterFly [PDF, 902K] indicating that it will cease operating as an ICANN-Accredited Registrar on March 31, 2007. Under the terms of the Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA), ICANN must provide 15 days written notice to RegisterFly of its intention to terminate.

Effective immediately ICANN has terminated RegisterFly's right to use the ICANN Accredited Registrar logo on its website.

Between now and 31 March RegisterFly is required to unlock and provide all necessary Authinfo codes to allow domain name transfers to occur. Any and all registrants wishing to transfer away from RegisterFly during this period should be allowed to do so efficiently and expeditiously.

"Terminating accreditation is the strongest measure ICANN is able to take against RegisterFly under its powers," Dr. Paul Twomey, President and CEO of ICANN said today.

"ICANN has been frustrated and distressed by recent management confusion inside RegisterFly," Dr. Twomey, President said. "I completely understand the greater frustration and enormous difficulty that this has created for registrants."

When the Agreement is terminated, ICANN can approve a bulk transfer of all current RegisterFly domain names to another ICANN accredited Registrar.

"Of course, RegisterFly does not have to wait till then. They can request ICANN to approve a bulk transfer immediately. I call on RegisterFly to act in the interests of registrants and seek such a transfer from us straight away," Dr. Twomey said.

ICANN intends to hold a forum to discuss the reform of the Accreditation policy and process at its Lisbon meeting in a week's time*.

A set of questions and points to inform the discussion will be made public prior to the Lisbon meeting.

* The Lisbon meeting is one of three meetings held a year by ICANN to meet with global stakeholders. It will take place from 26-30 March 2007.

Media Contacts:

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ICANN ( USA)
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International: Andrew Robertson
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Just got this email from registerflies.com, hope its true

EDIT: link to ICANN page. http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-2-16mar07.htm

 

[jimmeh]

Niice... Finally an "end" to this situation

 

[mis_chiff]

Great information, thanks

So if I understand it correctly...ICANN will move all the domains somewhere else?

 

[angisson]

thats waht I understand.. I am hoping it don't cost anything but I never had to go though this before so not really sure.. I guess we will wait and see.

 

[Christopher Hunt]

one scary thing is that they still have credit card numbers recorded somewhere, I bet. Not the kind of guys you want with those numbers esp. if they get more desperate.

 

[mis_chiff]

My thoughts exactly...I have 6 renewals coming up in the next 45 days or so...
Maybe ICANN will include 1 year free with the transfer.....
you know, for all our pain and suffering.... :lol:

I'm sure they will be professionals about it...

Like they've been so far hmmm

 

[angisson]

so from what I gather from talking to a bunch of people is that we have to pay to move our own domains to another register, even tho none of this shit is our fult? is this correct?

 

[accent]

If you move to another registrar that would be a transfer and therefore you would have to pay for one additional year of registration. If you wait for Regfly to sell it's holdings (wanna bet Godaddy gets them) or for ICANNT to move them (ditto Godaddy), then I would expect whatever time is remaining on the whois will stay there.

Those who paid to renew but the renewal does not show on whois may be SOL.

You know, domain name renewals cost ICANNT and VERISIGN nearly nothing. It would be a strong gesture to restore confidence if they added a year to each domain involved.

Never happen.

 

[ofclean]

If you move to another registrar that would be a transfer and therefore you would have to pay for one additional year of registration. If you wait for Regfly to sell it's holdings (wanna bet Godaddy gets them) or for ICANNT to move them (ditto Godaddy), then I would expect whatever time is remaining on the whois will stay there.

Those who paid to renew but the renewal does not show on whois may be SOL.

You know, domain name renewals cost ICANNT and VERISIGN nearly nothing. It would be a strong gesture to restore confidence if they added a year to each domain involved.

Never happen.

If they gave free renewals for these domains, that would be millions in lost revenue.

 

[airwav]

If they gave free renewals for these domains, that would be millions in lost revenue.

Doe anybody know how many domains RF is holding right now? I am betting it is under 100k...

When the fly swatter started to come down I moved about a dozen of mine out, but I still have about 40 with them.

Think it is best to "wait and see" what ICANN proposes to do?

 

[xous]

RegisterFly could still bulk transfer them to their Enom reseller account, provided they make nice, and attempt a recovery.

It might allow them to keep some of the less knowledgeable customers if they can manage to salvage some of the company's reputation but I think that the current -- and past -- management are too incompetent.

I think the best move for the company would be to make a public show of the CEO resigning, whilst maintaining control of the company, and getting hired on as a second sysadmin.

 

[Name Trader]

they no longer have an eNom reseller account. eNom terminated it already.

 

[cdboard]

this would be a good time to make sure your contact info is correct in the whois of the domains you have with registerfly.

 

[Matthew.]

I've always stayed away from RegisterFly purely because of what i have heard about them. Can't say I'm exactly happy about, but it's certainly nice to think I've saved myself the hassle of transfering etc.

This has to be the end of RegisterFly really...

Matt

 

[Datalife]

Right now registerfly.com is still in operation...the site is still there.

 

[JBebbington]

Right now registerfly.com is still in operation...the site is still there.

And so it should. RegisterFly can still operate a website, they still have their Accredited status, until the 31st. After that, they can still operate registerfly.com. Not as an ICANN Accredited Registrar, so no domain reg'.

I hope SlowDaddy doesn't get the RegisterFly contract.

 

[FedPrimeRate.com]

I see the vultures are already pecking at the decaying corpse (see attached image!)

 

[IAmAllanShore]

We should have a vBookie contest on who the names are bulk-transferred to after the fact... the bold money is on BobbyP, but you never know when NameCheap might reach around 'em...
So basically 15 days are left and then the whole registerfly saga should end, and the new "registerfly nomad" saga can begin!
-Allan :gl:

 

[Ronald Regging]

I made a comment that the only logical solution for RegisterFly at this point is to partner with New.net. Then someone checked the the New.net site and low and behold, Reg Fly is listed as a partner. Does anyone know if this has been the case for awhile or if this is a recent development? I dont know, I never used Regfly, but that would just be rather funny, because basically that's their only option at this point.

 

[IAmAllanShore]

Pre-all of this mess, you'll see that a major complaint against registerfly in 2004 was their partnership with new.net lent credibility to the fake extension, and led a lot of new domainers down a very expensive, very worthless path.
-Allan

I made a comment that the only logical solution for RegisterFly at this point is to partner with New.net. Then someone checked the the New.net site and low and behold, Reg Fly is listed as a partner. Does anyone know if this has been the case for awhile or if this is a recent development? I dont know, I never used Regfly, but that would just be rather funny, because basically that's their only option at this point.