More than 75,000
individuals have already lost their Internet domain names registered through
RegisterFly.com. New class action lawsuit seeks to protect up to a million more
from the same fate.
Winston‑Salem,
NC - March 28, 2007 - Yesterday, a U.S.
District Court judge unsealed a class action lawsuit against Internet domain registrar RegisterFly along with the
corporation charged with accreditation and oversight of registrars, the
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ("ICANN"), among
others. The lawsuit (Anne Martinez v RegisterFly, ICANN et. al.) filed by
Attorney E. Clarke Dummit alleges that RegisterFly has systematically defrauded
its customers who attempted to register or renew Internet domain names, causing
them to lose their domain names, finances, and even entire businesses. The
lawsuit was initially sealed due to fears of retribution by RegisterFly.com
towards plaintiff Anne Martinez for filing the suit, but since then other concerns have become more pressing, and
the case was opened to the public.
Winston-Salem,
NC - Today, an Order by U.S. District
Court Judge William Osteen was released, unsealing a class action lawsuit (Anne
Martinez v RegisterFly, ICANN et. al.) filed by Attorney E. Clarke Dummit
against Internet domain Registrar, RegisterFly, and the corporation charged
with accreditation and oversight of Registrars, Internet Corporation for
Assigned Names and Numbers ("ICANN").
The lawsuit alleges that RegisterFly systematically defrauded its
customers who attempted to register or renew Internet domain names. Anne Martinez has brought the suit as a class
action on her own behalf and for the thousands who are still being harmed by
RegisterFly and ICANN. To get up to date
information about the Class Action visit www.registerfly-lawsuit.com
An ownership dispute, coupled with a history of poor service, at RegisterFly (a registrar), has meant that its customers have had tremendous difficulty managing their domain names.
The company’s activities have affected many of its estimated 100,000 (or more) customers and among other things resulted in the reported loss of hundreds, possibly thousands, of domains.
The organisation charged with ensuring the stability and security of the domain name system, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), attempted to get the registrar to address the problems.
After many months of discussion with RegisterFly and following the processes under the Registrar Accreditation Agreement, ICANN announced it was terminating the registrar’s accreditation.
The situation has highlighted several issues within the registrar system, and ICANN’s president has called on the community to reform the Registrar Accreditation Agreement and wider registrar policy.
If you have hundreds of domain names with Registerfly and considering that bulk changes don't work on Registerfly.com, AutoFlyAway.com has come up with a simple script that will automatically login to your account and disable Registrar Lock and Protectfly and retrieve authorization codes automatically. This script was made by someone with 400 names and it worked for them. For those of you trying to get out of Registerfly and have many domains to transfer, this could very well be just the thing you need. Please rate this script.
Use this script at your OWN RISK. This was offered by a member and someone should get a free version and make sure it's a clean script. This was not designed by Registerflies.com.
1.Created a new registerfly account.
2.Made an internal push of my domain names to the new account.
3.In the new account first \"Enabled Secure Lock\" in the \"Settings\" page
4.Then \"Disabled Secure Lock\" on the \"Setting\" page
5.Then on the domain management page clicked on \"Domain Status\"
6.First checked on the \"Lock\" domain box
7.Then unchecked it
8.Presto, my domains showed up as unlocked & my transfer request from Enom went through in 48 hrs.
All the best to all of you facing the same problem.
Some people have been able to do it, as seen here. They are lucky. You may want to review this helpful FAQ.
