It's about time!
There's been a LOT of problems with the registrar Registerfly.com the last couple of years, but it has become increasingly worse in 2006/2007.
Bad/lack of support, fraud, locking customers accounts without notice/reason, holding back funds, refuse transfers to other registrars, overcharging etc. etc. etc....
You can read more about the Registerfly.com problems here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RegisterFly http://www.registerflies.com/ http://www.registerflea.com/
But now ICANN has finally decided to withdraw Registerfly's accrediation effective immediately!
Quote:
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.
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http://www.icann.org/announcements/a...-2-16mar07.htm
Copy of ICANN's letter to Registerfly:
http://www.icann.org/correspondence/...na-16mar07.pdf
So if you have any domains left there then it's certainly time to "bail out" and transfer them to another registrar (if you're able to...
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Here's a "message" that a few of their customers have seen when they've logged in recently..
So it seems like some of their staff isn't very happy about the situation either..
http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/3926/untitledhx0.png
I still have two domains left there that seems to be stuck..
On one it's not possible to change the contact info, so it's Registerfly's e-mail that's stuck there, and on the other one the transfer Authorization Code provided by Registerfly doesn't work (or doesn't appear sometimes)..
I've tried to transfer them at least 5 times to Godaddy the last couple of months, but they're still stuck in there..
And it looks like Registerfly still got 898K registered domain names, so I'm not the only one stuckk in there..
The number of registered domains have also increased the last month, but that's probably because customers are spending their Registerfly credit there now and preparing to "abandon ship" ASAP...
http://www.webhosting.info/registrar...EGISTERFLY.COM
The Authorization Code is needed by your other registrar but it's not very easy to find either.
Here's "simple" the steps you need to take to find the code:
- Log in to Registerfly (if you're able to...)
- Go to "manage domains" (click on the number of domains you have in there)
- Click on the domain you want to find the code for
- Click the + sign on "Domain Contact Information"
- Click the "configure" button that appears there (under your contact info)
- The authorization code should appear a the bottom there (but it may also be blank sometimes....)
Easy???
