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RegisterFly Terminated by ICANN
March 17th, 2007 by 
Jay Westerdal
On Friday, ICANN officially terminated its Registration Accreditation Agreement (RAA) with RegisterFly. Paul Twomey, the president and CEO of ICANN, said “Terminating accreditation is the strongest measure ICANN is able to take against RegisterFly under its powers”. However this is not the strongest measure, it is the ONLY measure. ICANN has no fines or minor corrective measures it can take against registrars. It is either the nuclear option or nothing. Registrars that abuse their accreditation face only a wimpy email or phone call from ICANN. In the 9 years since ICANN was formed, RegisterFly is the first registrar to receive any corrective actions. ICANN is aware of many registrars that don’t follow all the rules, but only has the threat of the nuclear option to correct these situations. After the 15 days notice, RegisterFly will be officially terminated on March 31st.
I visited the RegisterFly website one day after ICANN told RegisterFly to immediately terminate their use of the official ICANN endorsement logo. The first thing I saw was the logo, so I paid $9.99 via Paypal (it seems they don’t accept Credit Cards anymore) for a brand new domain and it failed to get registered. Now I’m left wondering if RegisterFly is going to refund my payment, or if I will get the domain in the next day. I will continue to monitor my order and see what happens. When I last checked my control panel, the domain was not listed. I called RegisterFly to ask about my domain but their voicemail was full and no customer service representatives were available to talk.
Name Intelligence keeps a log of every domain that is registered, deleted, or transferred. So I was curious what the last .COM domain was which was added by RegisterFly’s accreditation. From our records, the last customer to successfully register a domain at RegisterFly was Richard Nial of the UK. He registered DoubleTheSize.com on February 12th. What happens to all the customers that have registered since then? Does their money just go into a blackhole and are their purchased domains never registered? As we learn more, I will let everyone know.
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March 17th, 2007 at 12:40 pm
its my domin
March 17th, 2007 at 1:54 pm
those fools ropped me and took some domains of mine
one of them was parked at sedo and making 200$ monthly now i need to change the DNS with no clue to do this since i can’t control my domain since november 2006
March 17th, 2007 at 5:07 pm
I hope that this is the first of many such disciplinary measures.
When will they take action against Pacnames/Capital Networks for example?
March 17th, 2007 at 10:35 pm
Albatross2147,
Asking ICANN directly about a Registrar will get better results. However we have seen that they are powerless to help registrants in most cases because their contract doesn’t allow for anything but a nuclear button. We have seen complaints regarding RegisterFly for two years but they no one was in powered to do anything about it. It took some serious negligent behavior by Registerfly to get any action, RegisterFly literally shut down their own website and started suing each other internally before ICANN got involved.
March 18th, 2007 at 12:30 pm
Hello Jay,
ICANN Staff has had revisions to the Registrar Accreditation Agreement on its plate for more than two years now — see http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/registrars/msg02787.html — In your capacity as a registrar representative, can you speak to who has been holding up the process — is it the registrar constituency or the ICANN staff? Can we expect to see something other than the nuclear option in the future such as a financial sanctions program that might curb the activities of rogue registrars and/or resellers?
March 19th, 2007 at 12:37 am
Danny,
Registrars that have their act together are not that motivated to increase regulations or oversight over themselves. Over bad registrars, sure. But the treatment by ICANN has to be equal to all and since that would effect them, I think there is a bit of a stall. Why would a for-profit corporation in their right mind want more rules to bound themselves. RegisterFly crashing doesn’t effect the other registrars, it actually helps them. The motivations for change are just not in allignment.
Danny, you have been watching the ICANN mailing lists for as long as I I have. Why not come to the live meetings and voice your mind at the public mic. I find that the board and the ICANN process is still an offline thing. Most of the meetings in ICANN are open to the public but you have to be there in person.
June 2nd, 2007 at 9:11 am
How to save and moved your registerfly domains including protected domains:
How to moved your registerfly domains including protected domains before they will lost .
RegisterFly will not be a domain reseller in march 2007, and all your domain there is in risk of losing, spicily whois protected domains !.
so how to save your domain:
1. Create A New Register Fly Account.
2. Login into the Old RegisterFly Account.
3. Click on Manage Domains
4. Click A Domain Name
5. Click On Change Ownership
6. Click On “Push your names to another user”
7. Click Continue
8. Enter The User ID of The New RegisterFly Account
9. Verify The User ID of The New RegisterFly Account is Correct
10. Click Continue
11. Select Each Domain Name to Push
12. Check the Check Box Marked “Change the Whois/Contact info on the names being pushed”
*** Check This Box Only if your Domains are Showing ProtectFly Information on a Whois Database, If it’s Showing your Real Information with Working Email Then Continue Without Checking the Check Box ***
13. Login into Your New RegisterFly Account, Your Recently Transferred Domains Should Be All Unlocked.
14. Click Change Whois Information And Get Authorization Code for Each Domain.
15. Wait about 2 Days until changes are updated to the world.
15. Begin Transfer to New Registrar.
also i recommended http://www.domain-host-ssl.com as domain register with very cheap domain names prices.