Termination of RegisterFly.com Registar Status
 

This is bad news for anyone that has domains still at registerfly

you might want to read :P

16 March 2007

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.

Media Contacts:

Jason Keenan
Media Adviser
ICANN ( USA)
Ph: +1 310 818 9072
E: [email protected]

International: Andrew Robertson
Edelman ( London)
Ph: +44 7921 588 770
E: [email protected]

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

I got 4/6 important domains out of there. Still missing auth codes for the rest. Will be interesting to see 31. March if the codes are there. Luckily non of my domains expire before may/june

I still have one last name pending transfer.

If those fools at registryfly would have had a brain, they would have set up a second site with a new name and so on. Then offered to transfer your domains for free.

Thankfully my fiasco with these idiots is just about over.

The guys over at Registerfly are clearly brain dead, everyone of them. The rest of the partners can place all the blame on their crack head embezelling Kevin Medina, but the fact is the sky has been fallen over there for the last year and a half. They deserve to lose their entire business and I'd like to see them taken to court civilally too.

does that mean all the un-transfered domains will be sent over to another registrar?

and the other shoe drops

Looks like it..

"When the Agreement is terminated, ICANN can approve a bulk transfer of all current RegisterFly domain names to another ICANN accredited Registrar. "

wonder who the lucky registrar will be..

That isn't bad new at all, its actually very good news for those like me who still have domains at Registerfly. Now there will be a resolution to the trapped domain situation soon.

i user godady :)

Good riddens, bunch of scam artists

sweet looks like I won't be paying 700 bucks to transfer domains :)

I vote for Namecheap as the lucky winner :thumbsup

Hope it all works out..

As of today, RegisterFly is still flying the "Accredited by ICANN" logo in the lower left hand corner of their web pages.

Luckily, I have =[0]= domains there.

I saw this one coming.

:)

glad I jumped ship early

thank god for namecheap....

Has any other registrar been terminated by icann?