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.

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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

 

[Name Trader]

If you can get the auth codes and unlock the domain then transfer it to another registrar immediately. You might also visit www.registerflies.com for much needed helpful advice.

 

[MaxMcool]

Registerdies

Anyone that has not saved info of all there domains with registerfly should do so imediately.
Icann only has outdated records and a bulk transfer of domains failure has the posabillity of loss of all digital records.
Seems there is not much you can do if auth. codes are blank RRP or as I call it, the dreaded U.
Or registrant info is changed
Also heard the logo that came down was only blanked out but still has a link to ads of accreditation.
Seems like Icann, Enom and Registerfly will all have some explaining to do.
And to make matters even worse Kevin Medina has apparently even ripped off some young girl that worked for him for her wages.

He is not ripping me off again, I joined the class lawsuit, you should too!

 

[AdoptableDomains]

i send email to enom to transfer my domain, but they are saying me, they can't transfer my domain because its not based on enom
now i dont know what should i do, its in registerfly, and enom have no right in it. and its expiring.

As long as your whois is not in proxy, you should be okay. ICANN put a hold on registerfly deletions due to inability of users to make renewals work. Once domains are moved to a new registrar, hopefully next week, you should be able to renew there. Hopefully ICANN will make whoever takes over waive reinstatement fees. Also, hopefully the pricing at whoever takes over is on the low end of the scale.

What's never really been covered is those TLD's not under ICANN control such as most ccTLD's. You might need to contact the registry itself for help in those cases.

 

[fonzie_007]

RF is down at the moment. Luckily, I grabbed auth codes on all of my domains (minus 3 .us domains that don't have them because they are through a reseller account at Tucows). I've learned Tucows' customer support is even below RF's--you can't even get a hold of a person!

 

[angisson]

Fatal error: Call to a member function logdbg() on a non-object in /usr/local/tucows/wwwtucowscom_v2/include/functions.php on line 1154

don't look like tucows works either. =|

 

[fonzie_007]

Yes, Tucows' webpage is full of broken links and dead ends. I have NOT been impressed with them.

 

[MaxMcool]

Woops!!!

Looks like its all going down.
Glad I spent all that time saving transfer codes and unlocking domains over the last few months, then suddenly you need auth codes for .com etc as well.
Now I have to spend all my wages paying for transfers. I starve for a week, but at least Kevin Medina wont be getting anymore liposuction out of me!

 

[fonzie_007]

If you have lots of transfers to make, Moniker offers a service where they will perform a bulk transfer and allow you to pay equal payments over the next year.

 

[MaxMcool]

If you have lots of transfers to make, Moniker offers a service where they will perform a bulk transfer and allow you to pay equal payments over the next year.

For real ! thanks man
I was waiting for the bank to open tomorrow for funds deposit and transfer to godaddy for there discount price. But they just seem like registerfly all over again.
I will give moniker a go, might be able to bail straight away.
Got any ideas for .us.com or .web.com domain transfers out of registerfly trap? :wave:

 

[fonzie_007]

Your best bet is to call moniker or give Don an email at dlyons [at] moniker.com

 

[MaxMcool]

Got some accounts set up at moniker and internic
should be able to get all but 10 domains out,
shame they are not trash, Have to fight to the
bitter end , just to keep what is mine.

Thanks Fonz...
Shame we can not give this all the old fonze touch
and the machine will work again

 

[AdoptableDomains]

Got any ideas for .us.com or .web.com domain transfers out of registerfly trap? :wave:

For non-ICANN controlled domains, You should probably contact the individual registry.

 

[MaxMcool]

I cann too

For non-ICANN controlled domains, You should probably contact the individual registry.

Yeh got it all happening just aint got the cash to fit them all in the lifeboat this week, looks like I will be riding out the storm,
And dont forget April fools day, Big Kevin must be just having a bit of a joke on us all.
You know durgh!! wake up 1st April and everyones websites are up, there domains in there accounts there angry customers silent and there is a sort of hush as Icann parades triumphantly through the stadium, victor over the prankster.
Harah! Harah!

Wake up Icann this the real world
you are in trouble
you have no power
and you have no trust $
Realy you have no idea how much your failure to comunicate has cost this Industry.