I have some late breaking and Great news for the customers of Registerfly.  Enom has officially announced that they are no longer going to be associated with Registerfly.  This is big.  This is so big in fact that this has put the Registefly server down due to too much traffic.  This is such fantastic news I've literally been dancing around the office and getting ready to light up a fat cigar to celebrate.

Our efforts have not been vain and finally someone has heard our complaints and is acting on it.  Enom, we commend you for doing the right thing and for taking a stand against the unethical business practices of Registerfly. Please click below to read more!

Fantastic Fresh News - YES!

It's out.  Today I received a letter from Enom... Thank you Enom.  Below is the letter and it will follow with further content.  This received today respectively from Elida at Enom:

I have an update for you:
As of today, eNom has terminated its relationship with Registerfly.
Registerfly domain holders should be receiving an email shortly
regarding the details of how they can move their domains away from
Registerfly and into a direct eNom account. Customers will have the
ability to instantly push their domains into an enom account, by
verifying and acting on the email sent to them (the email address on the
WHOIS). The push will be free, no transfer fees will apply. In addition,
we will be honoring Registerfly's pricing so customers will continue to
enjoy discount rates on domain renewals and new domains while getting
eNom's quality service.

Most of the process can be done automatically by simply verifying the
email. Domain holders with 20 or more domains, will need to go through a
validation process (consisting of sending in a copy of their photo ID)
for their security.

Let me know if you or your users have any questions regarding the
process.... Elida.

Registerfly --- YOUR FIRED!!!

Wow, what great news. --- response to follow.  Please read!

Dear Customer:

This is a formal notice to owners of domains which have been registered through eNom via its reseller, RegisterFly.com. YOU MUST TAKE ACTION NOW TO RETAIN FULL MANAGEMENT RIGHTS TO YOUR DOMAIN NAME.  Although you purchased your name at RegisterFly, eNom is the actual registrar of record for your domains. As we are severing our relationship with RegisterFly, we are aware that this may have an impact on you as the domain owner. Therefore we would like to offer this opportunity to assist you in securing control of your domain name directly with eNom. Over the last year, eNom has become aware of an increasing number of complaints from dissatisfied RegisterFly customers.

As an eNom reseller, RegisterFly is contractually bound to adhere to certain standards of customer service in a speedy and diligent manner. Therefore, effective immediately, we have terminated RegisterFly as a reseller of domain names through eNom.Our records indicate that you are the registrant contact for X number of domains.

HOW TO SECURE CONTROL OF YOUR DOMAIN NAMES

Create a free account at eNom using the link below. Your domain names will automatically be moved to the eNom control panel where you will immediately have the ability to manage your domain(s).
In addition, these domains will receive a discounted renewal rate.

(There is a link they will provide you specifically)

There is no charge for this service, as eNom is already the registrar of record for your domains. Please reference our list of frequently asked questions page http://www.enom.com/migrate/faq.asp for additional information.
We look forward to helping you feel more secure about your domain management.

eNom, Inc.
http://www.eNom.com
former registrar for RegisterFly.com

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ultravisiontech Registered | 2007-02-06 15:49:21 FYI- The names don't transfer instantly. The new account will show up and apear empty at first. After about an hour Enom will send you a report listing the domains that have been pushed.

liam - No email? Registered | 2007-02-06 16:34:05 I received one of these "push-to-eNom" emails for an old domain I registered for a client -- one that I no longer manage -- but I've received nothing for my current domains. Perhaps because the whois protection was active on them? Or maybe I just need to wait? I've replied the first eNom message with a few questions, but I'm not sure how best to proceed...

nmutchler - try to transfer first Registered | 2007-02-06 19:29:06 well .. in the middle of a transfer OUT of registerfly - what a mess this all is. I have some authorization codes that are hinky - and some domains that dn't have any codes at all - so letters to registerfly and to enom ... and then we'll see what hapens. 48 domains that enom still has control over out of the 200+ being transferred out of registerfly. keeripes what a mess

Registerfly Fraud - ENOM PULLS PLUG TOO LATE-Tale Registered | 2007-02-06 19:56:53 [b]eNom PULLED THE PLUG Too LATE! - 2007/02/07 029 Enom was a co-conspirators if not parent guilty party involved related to thefts. I am disgusted at this blatant late attempt to suggest that enom cares a damn thing about domains carried and truly handled by them, that were manipulated a swindled from registrants. I know in time all the corruption will come out between the two parties involved. The Reputation of Demand Media owners of ENOM will suffer as a result of this if nothing is done to compensate the victims of these criminal thefts. The President of Demand Media Richard Rosenblatt is no stranger to internet corruption, he took over when intermix was involved in corruption. If Enom had any common sense to plead innocent they would have a link directly on there site answering questions and what they are doing to combat the problem started years ago. The Bottomline is Integrity has no middle ground. This Scandal can hinder if not Kill the Growth of a Internet Company or Venture Forever.[/b]

submarinefleet Registered | 2007-02-06 21:14:23 I'm not sure I understand. I was under the impression that Registerfly became it's own registrar a while back... meaning they weren't resellers any more. Which means they weren't selling for eNom anymore, anyway, so how can eNom have 'cut ties' recently when ties were cut some time back? I think that was the whole crux of this problem. Registerfly became their own reseller, with Protectfly and other crap in control of the domain names they had sold to eNom. Look at it this way: Registerfly controls one part of the domain, eNom the other. They split (as registerfly becomes it's own registrar) and neither company has the ability to renew a domain through normal procedures. This = customer is screwed. That's not to say that was/is registerflys only problem. They are a poorly run company with a serious lack of ethics, any way you slice it. However, this revelation that eNom has cut ties falls a little flat with me, especially considering they are making some really nice money off this fiasco. 160 bucks to renew a domain I already paid 7 bucks to renew, well, think about it...

Registerfly Fraud - ENOM is part of conspiracy Registered | 2007-02-06 23:25:29 ENOM SENARIO : they stole 10 of my domain names. this is a example of what they did in lay mans terms. This is a scandal that involves ENOm and a reseller of there services named Registerfly. I OWN A WHOLESALE SHOP AND A RESELLER OF MY PRODUCTS IS ACROSS THE STREET. THE RESELLER SELLS MY ITEMS BUT TAKES OUT THE MOTORS RENDERING THE PRODUCT WORTHLESS. I KNOW THIS AND PLAY SILENT PARTNER ALLOWING THIS TO CONTINUE FOR YEARS. I SHARE IN THE PROFITS BY TAKING BACK THE GUTS OF THE PRODUCT CHANGING THE COLOR AND RESELLING IT AS NEW WHEN IN FACT IT STILL HAS THE PERSON THAT WAS RIPPED OFFED PURCHASE DATE (creation date) STILL ATTACHED. meaning enoms now owns the domains and hides them in other countries.

sjwitz Registered | 2007-02-07 14:00:54 Submarinefleet writes-- I'm not sure I understand. I was under the impression that Registerfly became it's own registrar a while back... meaning they weren't resellers any more. I might be able to speak to that. Say you bought a domain from R'fly while they were still an eNom reseller. Then suppose that you renewed the domain ahead of time for several years--still while they were a reseller. My guess is that eNom would have supported the domains all the way up to expiration, however long that was. Your domains would go to R'fly only if you chose to renew after 2/06 when R'fly become a registrar in its own right. Since most folks tend to renew domains for only a year at a time, much of the mess has been in 2006, but there are still a number of domains left, and presumably these have multi-year expiration dates. So what eNom is saying is that they will not support R'fly domains, period...not even until the domain's original expiration dates. And effective in March, these domains all drop from R'fly's universe unless customers deliberately initiate a renew/transfer process. I assume this will further overwhelm R'Fly since I don't believe the renew/transfer process was ever fixed. --SJR

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