bye bye registry fly

[»doc flabby]

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.

 

Looks like registry fly is in trouble. I tried to renew a domain and they just took my money and ignored it. But a request into paypal now to get a refund....

 

http://www.icann.org/announcements/announc...t-2-16mar07.htm

http://www.registerflies.com/termination-o...ion-agreement.h

[»Maverick]

Can someone give me a summary of what has happened?

Is it that bad that Registerfly loses its ICANN acceditation ?

[»doc flabby]

It means they cannot sell domains anymore. And cannot renew domains. They have to free existing domains at registry fly to allow them to be transferred else where.

Most likey all the domains will be transferred to another provider by ICANN

[Ophie]

idiots who register thru registryfly are idiots

[Synook]

How bad are they really? Have many people been complaining about them?

[Ophie]

they overcharge for domains.

 

I can easily find domains at 50 cents a piece nowadays. These guys charge 20x more

[»1587200]

I've been with registerfly for 4 years and have never had any problems, despite what you'll find on the internet. This sucks, now I need to transfer all my domains

[»doc flabby]

I think they will get transfered by ICANN in the end...So you wont have to do anything idk tho lol.

[»1587200]

So does ICANN contact registerfly's customers for preferences and options for transfers to new registars, or do they just distribute the domains to random registars and say, "here ya go!"

[Nokia]

they overcharge for domains.

 

I can easily find domains at 50 cents a piece nowadays. These guys charge 20x more

 

where? lol

[candygirl]

http://www.icann.org/correspondence/jeffre...ina-16mar07.pdf

[»1587200]

Huh...so users can transfer domains to a registar of their choice, as well as RegisterFly can suggest to ICANN an accredited ICANN registar to transfer all of their customers to. So...transfer your domains now to a company of your choice, or get transfered to a copy of RegisterFly's choice...

[»1587200]

To those who didn't go to ICANN's site to look up the areas in which RegisterFly was in breech of, here they are per the pdf file Candy posted:

3.4 Retention of Registered Name Holder and Registration Data.

 

3.4.1 During the Term of this Agreement' date=' Registrar shall maintain its own electronic database, as updated from time to time, containing data for each active Registered Name sponsored by it within each TLD for which it is accredited. The data for each such registration shall include the elements listed in Subsections 3.3.1.1 through 3.3.1.8; the name and (where available) postal address, e-mail address, voice telephone number, and fax number of the billing contact; and any other Registry Data that Registrar has submitted to the Registry Operator or placed in the Registry Database under Subsection 3.2.

 

3.4.2 During the Term of this Agreement and for three years thereafter, Registrar (itself or by its agent(s)) shall maintain the following records relating to its dealings with the Registry Operator(s) and Registered Name Holders:

 

3.4.2.1 In electronic form, the submission date and time, and the content, of all registration data (including updates) submitted in electronic form to the Registry Operator(s);

 

3.4.2.2 In electronic, paper, or microfilm form, all written communications cons!@#$%^&*uting registration applications, confirmations, modifications, or terminations and related correspondence with Registered Name Holders, including registration contracts; and

 

3.4.2.3 In electronic form, records of the accounts of all Registered Name Holders with Registrar, including dates and amounts of all payments and refunds.

 

3.4.3 During the Term of this Agreement and for three years thereafter, Registrar shall make these records available for inspection and copying by ICANN upon reasonable notice. ICANN shall not disclose the content of such records except as expressly permitted by an ICANN specification or policy.[/quote'] I'm guessing, by the responces on WebHostingTalk, that they were probably in breech of 3.4.2.3 most often.

 

4.1 Registrar's Ongoing Obligation to Comply With New or Revised Specifications and Policies. During the Term of this Agreement' date=' Registrar shall comply with the terms of this Agreement on the schedule set forth in Subsection 4.4, with

 

4.1.1 new or revised specifications (including forms of agreement to which Registrar is a party) and policies established by ICANN as Consensus Policies in the manner described in Subsection 4.3,

 

4.1.2 in cases where:

 

4.1.2.1 this Agreement expressly provides for compliance with revised specifications or policies established in the manner set forth in one or more subsections of this Section 4; or

 

4.1.2.2 the specification or policy concerns one or more topics described in Subsection 4.2.[/quote']So they also failed to comply with ICANN updates to their policy. Naugty naughty RegisterFly.

 

Sources:

Notice to Registerfly: http://www.icann.org/correspondence/jeffre...ina-16mar07.pdf

ICANN Registar Agreement: http://www.icann.org/registrars/ra-agreement-17may01.htm

 

I'm glad I never got a reseller account from RF... *whew*

[»Maverick]

Dreamhost is offering free hosting for everyone that has a Registerfly domain $$$

 

http://www.dreamhost.com/promo.html

http://blog.dreamhosters.com/2007/03/18/fr...erfly-refugees/

[»doc flabby]

Just signed up on that deal $$

[Ophie]

I've been with registerfly for 4 years and have never had any problems, despite what you'll find on the internet. This sucks, now I need to transfer all my domains

use active-domain.com

[»Maverick]

I'm using mydomain.com for all my domains and I'm quite satisfied with their service. Their domain prices are also quite cheap.

[»1587200]

registerfly still hasn't removed the ICANN logo from the bottom of their site...I wonder what ICANN will do about it.

[»doc flabby]

they have untill 31 March to remove it.