What up with RegisterFly.com ?

[thegenius1]

A pretty long thread is brewing over at NP about the situation going on at RegisterFly.com

Below is an email that was forwarded to "schnitzeldorf" with some of the latest information on the Registerfly Debacle. We have also added a news release on www.registerflies.com that explains a little more.

Has Enom known this all along?

"RegisterFly.com is one of the largest internet domain name registries.

They originally operated as a reseller of services from Enom.com, but in
February 2006 they received their own ICANN accreditation and became
authorized to manage and sell their own domain services. There has been
friction and difficulty between RegisterFly and Enom for well over a
year, and in the past several weeks it appears that Enom has "fired"
RegisterFly. They sent alarming emails to all the customers who had been
receiving resold services announcing that their relationship with
RegisterFly was severed and informing them how to access their
automatically transferred domain names in a new Enom.com account.

I have experienced a long and dreadful history of problems with
RegisterFly, and I am apparently not alone. In fact, some industrious
person has set up the domain "www.registerflies.com" where he has
documented numerous problems AND the failure of ICANN to act responsibly
to address a situation that is clearly not acceptable for an accredited
registry managing over two million domain names.

But the real story isn't just that people are unhappy. Last night I
called their secondary customer support number to see whether they might
be able to help with major problems that have been occurring all week
(since the main support number obviously could not.) I'm not talking
about minor stuff, but rather a situation where the customer service
reps and administrators at RegisterFly CANNOT ACCESS their own systems
at all!

The rep I spoke with told me a story about the real problem. It seems
that the partners who started the company are fighting with one another,
and one of them is trying to force out the other. The one who is being
forced out has apparently been retaliating by hacking into the registry
systems and databases and making changes that have utterly paralyzed the
company. Suddenly my recent problems start to make sense. The outsourced
customer service reps have been telling us since Monday that they would
like to help, but that they cannot access the backend panels that
control their systems. They suggest it will be working in a few hours
and ask the customer to call back then. When you call back they loop
through the same scripted routine again.

This has been going on since Monday! The company cannot control its
systems. Even worse, the support rep indicated that they fear the
alienated partner is trying to hack and destroy the domain registration
databases. It is an incredible situation. Infighting at a domain
registry jeopardizing over two million domain names and preventing
customers from even being able to make minor changes to the domains they
own."

[IDNCowboy]

Originally Posted by thegenius1

A pretty long thread is brewing over at NP about the situation going on at RegisterFly.com

Below is an email that was forwarded to "schnitzeldorf" with some of the latest information on the Registerfly Debacle. We have also added a news release on www.registerflies.com that explains a little more.

Has Enom known this all along?

registerfly is sinking like the titanic. one partner is sueing the other accusing him of sinking the company's bank account on escorts and rent on his expensive residence. Back in January they lost around 75,000 domain names cause they couldnt' pay the registry because all hte money had been spent ;-). The guy is also accused of hacking into the servers. He was fired 3 days ago as well.

[Giant]

I had 15 domains at Registerfly and I had tried to move them away for 2 years but without success. I emailed them and phoned them many times to unlock my domains but the domains remained locked

Thankfully, these domains are in my account at Enom now.

[sarcle]

High class hookers. Now that's irony. All the revenue of their porn names registered went to pay for real life porn. Great stuff. You can't write this stuff.

[Drewbert]

People have been warning about Kevin Medina for donkey's years. All the domain chat boats and the hosting boards as well.

http://www.stopunifiednames.com

After the dodora debacle, the writing was on the wall for registerfly.

If you want to have a wee chortle regarding Dodora, check out the posts and replies regarding usernames comktg and pfc at domainstate.

[thegenius1]

This is just some really crazy stuff

[Drewbert]

This also highlights a problem with "thin registries" such as com/net.

With org, the people with names stuck at registerfly might be safe, because their actual registrant info is safe and sound at PIR and if it comes to the crunch they can probably pay PIR directly to ensure the names survive.

With com/net, verisign has no idea who the registrants are, because it's not their job to keep that data. All that data is sitting at registerfly.

Maybe.

[IDNCowboy]

Originally Posted by Drewbert

This also highlights a problem with "thin registries" such as com/net.

With org, the people with names stuck at registerfly might be safe, because their actual registrant info is safe and sound at PIR and if it comes to the crunch they can probably pay PIR directly to ensure the names survive.

With com/net, verisign has no idea who the registrants are, because it's not their job to keep that data. All that data is sitting at registerfly.

Maybe.

you would think with all that cash versign gets they would attempt to actually do some service for the customer.

[xxbossmanxx]

Reminds me a bit of the sex.com guy who stole that domain and ran around blowing tens of millions. If you havnt read about that one you should it's interesting.

[IDNCowboy]

Originally Posted by xxbossmanxx

Reminds me a bit of the sex.com guy who stole that domain and ran around blowing tens of millions. If you havnt read about that one you should it's interesting.

what does this have to do with anything? He forged a signature and stole sex.com
The idiots at network solutions approved the fraudulent transfer.

[blastfromthepast]

In a new and strange twist to the story, Registerflies.com, originally a site for disgruntled customers, now seems to be on the side of registerfly.com defending their actions, according to the latest article by the admin on that site.

[IDNCowboy]

Originally Posted by blastfromthepast

In a new and strange twist to the story, Registerflies.com, originally a site for disgruntled customers, now seems to be on the side of registerfly.com defending their actions, according to the latest article by the admin on that site.

They believe in one of the partners and are against the other partner who has been behind most of the recent problems.

[blastfromthepast]

So, if you are a partner at a company that specializes in theivery, and you win a fight with the other partners, you are now a good guy?

[IDNCowboy]

Originally Posted by blastfromthepast

So, if you are a partner at a company that specializes in theivery, and you win a fight with the other partners, you are now a good guy?

Their customer support has always sucked. I once emailed them from another email account asking for my password. They emailed me my password even though it wasn't in the whois lol.

[thegenius1]

Just in Icann tells RegsterFly to conform or else

http://www.icann.org/correspondence/...ch-21feb07.pdf

[domainguru]

Originally Posted by thegenius1

Just in Icann tells RegsterFly to conform or else

http://www.icann.org/correspondence/...ch-21feb07.pdf

lol - it could only take a "company" as hideous as registerfly to actually make ICANN sit up and do something.

[thegenius1]

Originally Posted by domainguru

lol - it could only take a "company" as hideous as registerfly to actually make ICANN sit up and do something.

LMAO , but what ashame