Registerfly On the Fly
So who is Registerfly? Are your names safe? How would you like to
know the real deal? Durning multiple conversations with employees and
with further investigation, we're getting a grip on the real deal.
Registerfly employees, Officers ex-girlfriends, ex-employees and
personal friends of the owners of Registerfly have been in contact with
me as well as the media and a number of other inside sources that I'm
not at liberty to disclose.mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled
Brief History
Registerfly was started originally with two partners. One was Kevin
Medina
and the other was John Naruszewicz. Kevin was the techie that set up the fantastic interface of the Registerfly website which set them apart from anyone in their industry. John was the one that wanted to sell domains and provide hosting.
It was Kevin that maintained control over the data and the data center and essentially all of your names. He was so consumed with possessing something he couldn't possess that he even maintained control over the support ticket system. The folks that were hired to bring Registerfly in a new direction were fired after just a few weeks.
Day to Day Operations
Typically when a registrar does business they buy, in advance a certain number of domain names or have a certain amount of money allocated towards domain names. Kevin and Registerfly (hence the name - Registerfly), was a registrar on the fly, and the sending of money for purchased domain names was something done on a daily basis. Kevin ran a tight ship... So tight, it sunk. s email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled
Outsourcing to Pakistan
About two years ago Glenn Stansbury, VP of Operations had a Pakistan company hired to help out with the support issues of Registerfly. The support company was supposedly a very good one but the problem was they weren't given the tools and training necessary, nor the access to the information that they needed to provide the support. Again, this was a case where Kevin limited control over a compnay he tried to possess.
Infighting Between the Partners
Above and beyond the problems that were due to system failures,
both Kevin and John had some major disagreements on how things were being handled on the business side of it. Kevin had bullied his way to full control and the Vice President - John, was merely in charge of payroll only and had almost nothing else to do within the company.
Kevin was going through employees like crazy. Kevin would just terminate an employee for no reason. Registerfly had gone through a large number of employees and lost a lot of good help because Kevin may have just not liked them.
As the personal relationship and business began to turn sour, it was realized that Kevin had been using company funds for personal things... many of which are too disgusting to get into. As John was watching his company crumble he had to do something about it so he quietly began to prepare a federal, criminal case against Kevin Medina. John began to collect evidence and retrieve personal emails and much more incriminating evidence to go forward with not only a class action against Unified Names but Kevin Medina as well.
Had John or any other of the organizers against Kevin tipped anyone as to what was going on, it would have ended abruptly and Kevin could have just sold the database and cleaned out the customer accounts and been spending the rest of his time on a yacht south of France. John saw that the customers names and lively hoods were in jeopardy so he gave all he could to build this federal case against Kevin Medina.
Had John not stepped up and tried to save the company from Kevin, everyone could have lost their domain names.
Kevin Medina moves to Miami Beach
Around November of 2006, just when the pressure was really surmounting, Kevin decided to move to Florida. In order to prepare this move he had to forge documents with the state of New Jersey to put him in sole control over the entire company. He then set up a corporation in Florida and opened bank accounts so that he could gain full control over the finances of Registerfly and Unified Names Inc. The address of his new and improve office is:
Unified Names Inc.
960 41st street
Miami Beach, FL 33140
Phone Number: 305-674-0165
As Kevin needed a place to live, he slapped down a $25,000 deposit at the the luxurious Icon Condoninium on Alton Road in beatufil Miami beach for the monthly rent of $10,000. All this with company funds. He then supplied his new live in boyfriend and office assistant Neil, with Glenn's company credit card to go on a month long spending spree.
The Current Problems
Although I don't know exactly who is doing what, it's been said
that Kevin Medina has been working diligently (hands on) with people to
correct bad situations. It's also been said that there are people
within the company that are making changes to problems that are fixed
and unfixing them... literally, sabotaging the company.
With the feud between the partners in the company, things are
falling apart at a rate that they aren't going to be able to recover.
Currently there are bank accounts that are frozen so employees aren't
being paid.
Although many of the employees of Registerfly would like to help you
out, they are unable to assist due to the hacking being performed
people within the company. The reason the Registerfly customers aren't
getting any assistance is because the customer support team is locked
out of the back-end management functionalities of their Registry by the
partner who is trying to sabotage the company.
"This has been going on since Monday! The company cannot control its
systems. Even worse, the support rep indicated that they fear the
alienated partner is trying to hack and destroy the domain registration
databases. It is an incredible situation. Infighting at a domain
registry jeopardizing over two million domain names and preventing
customers from even being able to make minor changes to the domains they
own."
- undisclosed source
Registerflies.com
This site's main purpose was to offer a place for people to go and
express their concerns about a very awful and pathetic company. Our
purpose here was to take a stand against very bad support and fraudulent
activities by an ICANN accredited registrar. This site is living proof
that you can't hide from the internet and when people come together and
speak out, things actually happen.
Where do we go from here... Well, I'm not exactly sure. New
information will be released within the next week and it will be big
news coming out of Registerfly. They have more problems internally that
most of us care to know about. The Registerfly Debacle will be coming
to a close very soon and it's been the communication via the internet
that has made our voice heard.
Summary
Many of you who have domain names have loses due to Registerfly that
amount to a lot of money. Many of you are also angry with Registerfly
but please be angry with Registerfly and not the employees of this
falling company. Many of us have been so angry that we've been foaming
at the mouth over our domain names and websites... please don't direct
that anger towards any one individual. It's easy to do but this is a
bad business we're dealing with that's being run into the ground and
it's sad that many of you are being taken down with it.
Thank you all for hearing me out and I'd like to thank the employees
of Registerfly that have come forth with honest information regarding
what's going on within the company. I welcome all the employees of
Registerfly to come to this site and contact me directly for your side
of the story and I can assure you that you will remain anonymous.
What Next?
Check out the ICANN blog of the Ombudsman.
My responses haven't shown up in the comments so you may want to give
it a shot. The chances that ICANN will listen are very slim but it
doesn't hurt to try.
As far as Registerfly, they are up against a lose lose situation and
the company is crumbling whether ICANN does anything or not. You can
all expect a news release within the next week or two from a source
much larger than our site here.
We'd also like to thank the DN Journal for posting our story on their site: http://www.dnjournal.com/lowdown.htm
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