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This is what is probably happening at Registerfly right now according to reports on Registerflies.com...
-- Registerfly is reselling domain names through Tucows Inc.
-- Any domains that are newly registered are kept in the customer's account for one or two days of valid registration.
-- The domain registration is then deleted by Registerfly.
-- The registry charges a small fee for handling the deletion, then the balance is refunded directly to Registerfly.
-- The domain name remains in the customer's account interface at Registerfly, but it is a phantom registration. The domain has actually been deleted.
-- Registerfly pockets the refund.
-- The customer never questions that the domain is still in their account, until they try to do something important, such as setting the DNS to resolve to a site or forwarding the name to a parking page.
-- If/when the customer finally realizes that the domain registration is not real, they will likely spend a few days trying to get a response from Registerfly's support, which will be a futile effort.
-- When the customer gives up and calls their credit card company and disputes the charges, (based on past behavior) Registerfly will lock them out of their account and never let them back in.
I'd love to test this myself, but I'm deathly afraid of giving my credit card info to Registerfly, mainly because none of them are near maxing out. Anyone here have a card that's nearly maxed out and would like to try this? It'd be rock-solid evidence to forward to the IC3, the FTC and the Dummit law firm.
-- Registerfly is reselling domain names through Tucows Inc.
-- Any domains that are newly registered are kept in the customer's account for one or two days of valid registration.
-- The domain registration is then deleted by Registerfly.
-- The registry charges a small fee for handling the deletion, then the balance is refunded directly to Registerfly.
-- The domain name remains in the customer's account interface at Registerfly, but it is a phantom registration. The domain has actually been deleted.
-- Registerfly pockets the refund.
-- The customer never questions that the domain is still in their account, until they try to do something important, such as setting the DNS to resolve to a site or forwarding the name to a parking page.
-- If/when the customer finally realizes that the domain registration is not real, they will likely spend a few days trying to get a response from Registerfly's support, which will be a futile effort.
-- When the customer gives up and calls their credit card company and disputes the charges, (based on past behavior) Registerfly will lock them out of their account and never let them back in.
I'd love to test this myself, but I'm deathly afraid of giving my credit card info to Registerfly, mainly because none of them are near maxing out. Anyone here have a card that's nearly maxed out and would like to try this? It'd be rock-solid evidence to forward to the IC3, the FTC and the Dummit law firm.
