Registerfly Domain Registrar Drama
Back in February 2007, I became privvy of some issues concerning my registrar Registerfly. This company controlled all of my major domains, including tawodi.org and adventmud.org. I don’t know all of the details even still, but some inner gears came loose within the company, and thousands of customers were unable to renew their domains. Some were losing business because their domain expired and they were unable to renew. Others still, had paid for their renewal and the money was accepted, but no renew was issued.
I started following sites like Registerflies and RegisterFlea which were anti-Registerfly sites that were keeping customers updated on the court process and shady business practices by Registerfly.
I immediately started copying down my Auth codes and updating my Whois information so that it all matched. Unfortunately for the next month or so, I was unable to “unlock” my domains, as Registerfly removed the ability to unlock from their customers. I still checked everyday, as I was reading through the forums, and many people were able to “unlock” their domains and transfer away.
Finally one day they worked, and I was able to transfer 2 of the 3 absolutely crucial domains I had to have. But I was still unable to unlock adventmud.org. No matter how many times I tried, even daily, it would not go through.
But I ran across an email (on another site) from Mike Zupke, that stated exactly what I needed to do. Submitting a request to ICANN with the information displayed exactly how they requested, in a matter of 3 days I could transfer my last crucial domain out of Registerfly. Especially since by that time, Registerfly had lost their accrediation with ICANN.
GoDaddy.com has come to the rescue of a lot of the Registerfly customers, and just recently are taking over all Registerfly domains. Fortunately I got out before all of that went down (and I had transfered to GoDaddy anyway), but I thought others might benefit from figuring out what could possibly be done to help their situation.
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