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.

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MNLNI - Whats our next step? Registered | 2007-03-16 22:32:22 Now what should we do with the domains without auth codes and domains with registerfly as contact info?

DFA Registered | 2007-03-17 00:49:10 RF stuffed up my whois all together and I have a pending renewal with them. Unless the domain is renewed I will not be able to update the whois. I have tried but it states it can't because the domain in question has expired. On last check my domain had not been released or Auth codes provided. What to do..

RSB - WWW Meltdown effects (number o Registered | 2007-03-18 07:59:25 Attn everyone... Can anyone write a professional or acceptable News Brief named "WWW Meltdown Effects (number of effected people)!!" Urgent!!! I'll get the news brief to CNN and Reuters and other global media through my contacts. Please write the news brief presenting the events till now.

edpudol - What about our domain expired? Registered | 2007-03-16 22:59:05 I wondering if ICANN also have control or have plan to our domains that was expired and can't renew at registerfly and now expired.

mikey1 - The $hit has hit the fan Registered | 2007-03-16 22:59:28 The $hit has hit the fan everyone

f**ckedFly - You all better move out asap!! Registered | 2007-03-16 23:06:45 It's over for RegisterFly, thanks to the efforts of some great people I know ;) without this site "RegisterFlies" we wouldn't have seen this day, the day and end of RegisterFly, no more ICANN seals of their site!! I just wish that ICANN can take down www.registerfly.net asap as this is the work of the guy who stole from all of us ;)

endemixllc - Not sure if ICANN did the righ Registered | 2007-03-16 23:13:29 Amazing....Sarah has been working hard but if ICANN pulls the plug, what does RF have to lose? At that point they could just walk away from the whole mess since they no longer would be trying to keep their Accreditation. I think ICANN should dangle their Accreditation over their heads like the proverbial carrot until all customers are happy, then pull the plug on these inept cat fighting fags.

admin - Thank you ICANN Super Administrator | 2007-03-16 23:14:22 Wow... is about all I can say right now. This is probably the biggest decision ever made in the history of ICANN. Thank you ICANN! This has been a long time coming and over the past couple weeks ICANN and Mike Zupke have taken the actions necessary to assist customers in any way they can. I'd like to thank Mike Zupke for assisting those folks out there that needed it and thank you for finally recognizing this problem and taking care of it. I know this has been a stressful week for all. I also owe a thank you to everyone who has supported the efforts of this site and our goal. We were finally heard and although it took a long time, we stayed the course of time and never lost sight of our purpose. For all of you that still have domain names tied up at Registerfly, I think things are going to smooth out. Keep all your records and all your screen shots as we continue on working together to bring your names into safety. Thank you all for being patient as we infiltrated the castle and captured the flag.

gtcway Registered | 2007-03-16 23:19:25 What about domain names that registerfly didn't renew, even though I paid them and the name is now registered by someone else? Guess it's gone for good

PPNSteve Registered | 2007-03-16 23:46:01 so.. will we get access to our domains? how is this going to work for us who've been falling through the cracks? lets hope so.. time to update my still pending support ticket.

a101 Registered | 2007-03-16 23:53:44 ICANN had better be holding forums or something to figure out WHAT they are going to do with all the remaining customers/domains still at Registerfly! Ain't this a fine MESS! .

sirchadlington - GREAT Registered | 2007-03-17 00:02:45 I'm happy to see ICANN is taking a step in the right direction and actually taking drastic action. The only question now is... will RegisterFly's Kevin do anything about it? Now that he doesn't have any grounds to keep RF afloat... he has no motivation to help any of us. He could just sit back and not do anything, which means people with domains still in their accounts will have no chance of getting them back. ICANN is demanding RF to unlock and do certain things... but RegFly doesn't have any reason to listen to them now, and they haven't listened to them in the past. I hope RegFly does as ICANN says, lets everyone get out peacefully, and closes its doors. But whether or not that will actually happen is yet to be seen.

dljones - Mike Zupke Registered | 2007-03-17 00:08:42 I would like to thank Mike Zupke publically for his help in getting my last domain out of RF - at least I have the auth code now and it is transfer pending - which is more than RF could do in the last 6 weeks. I hope ICANN will continue to help those that are left and fix the problems of domains that were stolen by squatters that are in dispute. Great Job Mike! and Thanks a lot!

dsmj - KUDOS to the Registerflies! Registered | 2007-03-17 00:19:37 Congrats to the persistence and unheralded efforts of the Registerflies admin and team players. Thanks out to Dr Twomey, Mike Z. and Frank et. al. of ICANN. Thanks out to Brian Dunn and Bob Parsons, Nima and Warren at GoDaddy Radio and lifeonline. I edited the video comment to include this development. http://www.brightcove.com/title.jsp?title=512723016&channel=493148924 There is hope for The WEB and for Us and for planet earth at large from the results of this. Take names - Kick butt - the bad guys will get dug out of the holes they slither into and they shall be removed from the scene. Also, i have made many new friends around the planet, in many different countries, as a process from getting into this, thanks, its great to know you - shouts out to all.

briman1970 - Congrats to Registerflies! Registered | 2007-03-17 00:32:56 The kind of effort that admin has undertaken and seen to it's fruition is rare nowadays. Thanks for sticking to your guns Justin and helping to rid the net of the kind of garbage that is Kevin Medina and company. F*ck you Registerfly. I'm so glad this is the last time I have to say it. Keep my $41.96 and shove it Medina, you low-life, worthless excuse for a human-being.

JRBHosting - Dugg! Registered | 2007-03-17 00:32:58 http://www.digg.com/tech_news/RegisterFly_is_Done

traveltext - Great news but... Registered | 2007-03-17 00:50:38 Registerfly have now lost any incentive to sort the mess out. This now looks to me like a situation where there'll be years of legal wrangle before there's any action. For those of us with no auth codes, sites down, no access to nameservers, and losing money, it's a disaster. If this is being regarded a good outcome, I'd hate to know what a bad outcome might be!

choie - I agree with traveltext Registered | 2007-03-17 01:27:31 Seems like this is bad news to me -- ICANN steps in too late, then washes its hands of the situation. What incentive does Medina/RF have to help anyone whose domains he's already ripped off via changing the WHOIS info? Now he can sell them off or turn them into link farms. I can't get into my client's account because it's been suspended (despite our having paid for it), RF's changed the WHOIS info, and I & my clients are out of luck. What am I supposed to do?? Ugh.

FWayne - Thanks Justin et al. Registered | 2007-03-17 01:32:56 Thanks Justin for all your work. I wonder how much longer ICANN would have let this rotting fruit that is RF stay on the tree if it were not for your efforts? Thanks downdoggy for helping me transfer my domains. Thanks to everyone who has posted. You all deserve a round of applause. It may not be totally over for domain holders, but I think it's over for RegisterFly.

mrpaco - customers testimonials Registered | 2007-03-17 01:38:12 If you want to see what does registerfly customers say, read this page http://www.registerfly.com/info/praise.php Got from http://www.registerfly.com/info/about.php with a bit of sarcasm...

whizz - 15 days? Registered | 2007-03-17 02:26:34 ICANN acted. Yes. Mike Z tried to help (ignoring the "wait 24 hours" for nothing). Yes. 15 days to unlock and release? Yeah, right. No offense Mike Z, but this is probably the first time glacial ICANN has faced a situation in which 960,000 domain name holders are getting screwed by a totally ineffective system of controls over registrars. One could ask why registrars even exist? Just another way to generate revenue for people who resell the services of a registry? Surely registries could be set up to handle the consumer volume ... transfers should, of course, be an entirely registry based process and, authorization codes should not exist – as someone else pointed out, they don’t help us, they really only help the registrars. I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm expecting ICANN to put in place some processes with the actual TLD registries to help make sure we get control of the names that RegisterFly has corrupted (I'm being kind) entries for. If ICANN doesn’t do that then there are several organizations and world governments that should look into the question"why ICANN". We're relatively lucky: there are only just over a dozen of our names left to move now, out of which only three are expired (they shouldn't be, of course). None are particularly "attractive" so we can always grab them back in the future. All our critical and valuable names are safely elsewhere. However, I'm sure others are in worse shape and I hope that ICANN manages to help us all. If not, there is always class action, but given that Kevin, John and Glenn probably don't have much to go after, who would we pursue? On the other hand, Kevin does have a condo in Miami – party time anyone? Thanks again to Mr. Admin for creating and sustaining this site - we all really can't thank you enough. Thanks also to many of the contributors for sharing the ins, outs and tricks that have been needed to ditch RegisterFly.

RSB - note to whizz (and all) Registered | 2007-03-18 06:55:48 Thanks for your holpful words. I had 14 domains with RF, and one of then was let expire (even they have $118 in my credit PLUS autorenew) and I tried hard but it was too late. It was snatched by a link farmer and just being sold back to me for $1k. I paid the ransom and still waiting the process, and trusting the farmer. But my other 13 domains!?? No codes, no response. I wroye to ICANN with a list of my (now) 13 domains, so I'm hoping they will save the day...otherwise they'll look worse than Medina for being so useless.

RSB - World News Registered | 2007-03-18 06:59:05 Someone should inform the global media, like CNN, about this giant mess on the WWW. It would be big news.

xaver - Next steps Registered | 2007-03-17 03:34:01 RegisterFly virtually lost all its value. There is some value in the domain names not yet transfered away and this will be sold to an other registrant. This sale will be under tight control from ICANN, just to make sure, that everything goes more or less ok and they have a precedent if something similar happens again. (More or less ok means that there will be loss of domains up to some hundreds, but over 95% of domains will be fine.) RegisterFly will try to sell its domain management software as well but this will be separate business opportunity, that does not matter for ICANN. I think this is the optimistic scenario, there can be some worse situations as well, which will require more technical involvement then ICANN is able to carry out. I have over 100 domains at RegisterFly, majority of them now being transfered away, there are around 10 that are still in 'limbo'. RRP or no text instead of Auth Codes, less then 60 days domains, and one .co.uk domain.

legaadmin - We have to help ourselves! Registered | 2007-03-17 03:37:54 Those who have "hanging" domains, which are expired and only RegisterFly support can solve the problem, those have to fight together against RegisterFly. And do not give up! We have to gather here at registerflies.com or some other place like forum or whatever (I can setup one if needed). If we stay together and will be acting then we get noticed and we get our domain back. If we will be on out own hoping that it maybe setup somehow itself - we will loose the domains! Domain is just a name. It can belong to anyone, and registrant can be changed at any time if there will be legal reason. So if you lost your domain today, this does not mean you can't get it back. But you have to fight, all together has to fight. If we do, we will win. The truth is on our side!

RSB - News Brief Registered | 2007-03-18 07:05:25 Can any talented person write a professional news brief?- about this case. We can get it to the media. This should make big news. I don't have all the facts, nor experience, to write the News Brief, but if anyone can do it, I'll get it to CNN, etc.

Dunning - NO RESOLUTION STILL FROM ICANN Registered | 2007-03-17 04:03:20 Well, I will not be thanking ICANN untill I get my auth codes ! I contacted ICANN (Mike Zupke) and have waited more than "2 business days" for registerfly to comply... still nothing. I still have over 37 domains at registerfly with blank Auth codes and whois (domain missing when I try and insert my whois data) and money taken from my account has NOT been refunded. RF still refuse to acknowedge support tickets, faxes, emails, phonecalls etc. When I suggested on the ICANN blog that RF have commited fraud I was shot down by Kieren (ICANN) even though it quite clearly states at the top of the ICANN blog that they (ICANN) have asked Registerfly to stop taking money from peoples accounts without supplying services. Is that fraud or isnt it? What I want to know now is how ICANN intend on doing this mass transfer they are talking about in their latest public notice, considering that my whois data is missing and my domains are displaying 'not found' when I try to enter my correct whois data, and my auth codes are missing? Why has ICANN stopped posting updates on their blogg/website when they stated earlier that they would keep us informed? I am damned well fed up ...

SouthAfricaRed Registered | 2007-03-17 06:31:01 All I can say is that I've managed to transfer all my .com, .net and .info domains away from RF in the last week. It's just my .co.uk that remains, but that will hopefully be sorted this coming week. Dealing with Tucows the registrant Thanks to everyone on this site that helped me to do that I feel sorry for the people that have expiring domains or locked domains. They face an uncertain future. I hope you all get sorted out and dont lose anything in the process

nmutchler Registered | 2007-03-17 06:38:34 Dunning - your frustrations match mine perfectly - I have the same scenario as you,except I have 5 critical domains, with 1 of them showing as 'domain not found'. None are expired yet, thank god. I did find one thing - if you go to your account manager - and tick the box on 1 of your domains with no info that won't allow you to update - It's the bulk manage feature - then go to the bottom of the screen and click modify. then do the drop down for modify contact information - it will show your correct information - all except the billing (in my case) I took a screenshot of that (for what it's worth) - and have saved emails that show where I tried to edit my information for those domains. I would be interested in keeping in touch with you to compare our experiences. gramma at ix.netcom.com

cube1 Registered | 2007-03-18 08:05:34 Email them again -- but you cannot just reply to the message you got back (with the 2 day part), or you will get a "Ticket has been closed" response. You will need to create a second message. I found that to be somewhat helpful, though I am still not out of the woods.

Festus Registered | 2007-03-17 06:47:19 Haw Haw Haw!!! Now I can celebrate even more on St. Patrick's Day!

Kakao - RPP and ProtectFly Registered | 2007-03-17 08:40:03 I had success transfering two domains. Now I'm trying another two. In one I get the RRP auth code and in the other I can't disable ProtectFly.

AHMark - Transfer of domains Registered | 2007-03-17 09:54:07 WOW Not unexpected. I just switched to http://resellercore.com/ if anyone is still looking for a new loaw cost reseller. (NO SETUP FEES, NO MINIMUM DEPOSIT). I put in motion the transfer of 3 out 4 domains from Registerfly.com Only reason Registerfly.com would not allow the transfer of my last domain is that it was only registered 30 days ago. Hopefully the above news covers all domains and not just those registered longers tha 60 days. I do recommend http://resellercore.com/ So far I am impressed. Whois searches are instant (in seconds). Plus they offer other products to resell as well. (Just my 2 cents worth of an opinion)

majestic21 - auth code for .name Registered | 2007-03-17 10:04:34 any help in .name auth code? i still can't get the auth code and nothing from Mike Zupke even after sending mail to them

Yankee - No ICANN accrediation? So wha Registered | 2007-03-17 10:24:38 Registerfly is still open and still has the ICANN logo on their website. What's changed?

shadoze - What about domains that you ar Registered | 2007-03-17 10:59:21 I've got quite a few domains with RF that don't expire till later this year, but I am not going to renew them, so I don't want to pay to transfer them, any idea how all this is going to affect these types of domains? will they stay live? will they be assigned to another registrar?

sjwitz - re: No ICANN accrediation? So Registered | 2007-03-17 11:04:14 Yankee wrote: Registerfly is still open and still has the ICANN logo on their website. What's changed? Supposedly R'Fly no longer has the right to use the ICANN logo. But my guess is that ICANN will probably be forced to obtain a court order before it actually gets removed off the website. --SJR

kimvette Administrator | 2007-03-17 14:15:17 Or maybe the same blackhat or disgruntled employee who is responsible for registerfly.net will remove the logo so ICANN will not have to go to the courts? Just a suggestion. If you're going to be cracking. be productive with your fun.

dsmj - ACTION Registered | 2007-03-17 11:23:30 Registerfly.com website has, at no point in this process, displayed much of any visible response to this on the homepage. No Help, no Useful news. THAT is an insult to us, those that are harmed and seeking a solution. Even worse, there are likely thousands of domain owners that are still unaware anything has happened at all. Basically the IT and Geek world is only partially aware, see the dumb questions by the microbrains at slashdot.org - THIS IS A GLOBALLY IMPACTING TRAINWRECK IN PROGRESS, and many of the people on that train dont even know it yet, and dont find out untill thier domain name becomes a LINKFARM page. my video clip has perhaps helped, but its more like preaching to the chior. Those that need to know are still not aware of this situation Though we can Thank ICANN for acting in some manner, the resolution of this situation has barely begun. Registerfly ( by some guesswork and research ) has around 600k .info's and possibly up to 1/4 million .com .net names still in its grasp. This sort of seems like an ENRON mixed in with the need for a SUPERFUND Hazmat recovery in a situation where ICANN and "We The People" are not funded for this cleanup. We are going to need those with the resources and power to help, Verisign, GoDaddy etc... or something. This needs to be escalated to Global news. I think i get get it into NPR but thats not enough. I have to go shovel 2 tons of snow off my roof now.... Grrrrrr

PPNSteve - re: Thank you ICANN Registered | 2007-03-17 11:37:07 admin wrote: Wow... is about all I can say right now. This is probably the biggest decision ever made in the history of ICANN. Thank you ICANN! This has been a long time coming and over the past couple weeks ICANN and Mike Zupke have taken the actions necessary to assist customers in any way they can. I'd like to thank Mike Zupke for assisting those folks out there that needed it and thank you for finally recognizing this problem and taking care of it. I know this has been a stressful week for all. I also owe a thank you to everyone who has supported the efforts of this site and our goal. We were finally heard and although it took a long time, we stayed the course of time and never lost sight of our purpose. For all of you that still have domain names tied up at Registerfly, I think things are going to smooth out. Keep all your records and all your screen shots as we continue on working together to bring your names into safety. Thank you all for being patient as we infiltrated the castle and captured the flag. Now all we need to do is get that flag over to our homeland.. lets hope with the ICANN ruling and all the public pressure, RF does what it should and process transfers, etc. i did get a phone call from godaddy saying that they are indeed using the ICANN disaccreditation notice to expedite one of my expired .net transfers.. lets hope it works.

pissedoff Registered | 2007-03-17 11:48:30 Na na na na, hey hey-hey, goodbye Na na na na, na na na na, hey hey hey, goodbye Listen to me now Registerfly you are going down.

pissedoff - re: No ICANN accrediation? So Registered | 2007-03-17 11:51:17 Yankee wrote: Registerfly is still open and still has the ICANN logo on their website. What's changed? ICANN has issued a letter to RegisterFly 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. The 15 days are not up so registerfly will probably use the Accreditation Logo until the very last day

gearedup - CONTACTING ICANN WITH ISSUES Registered | 2007-03-17 12:09:26 Here's one for you!!! I sent the "so-called" required list of domain names that I was having problems with, including the date and the specific problem I was having with Registerfly to ICANN at: transfer-questions@icann.org ....I started this process early last week as I was instructed to do! The response I just got from ICANN???? "The ticket you are referring to has been closed. If you feel that this is in error, please submit a new email with no ticket number and a new ticket will be created. Thank you." This is the response I received after the "wait two days" letter. NOTHING HAD BEEN ADDRESSED, CORRECTED OR FIXED. I have the SAME problems I did when I wrote the letter!!! ...Now I'm getting the same support as Registerfly provides. ...... I am so disgusted.

BobfromCA Registered | 2007-03-17 14:36:38 My concerns are same as Dunning and others... several names show no owner/admin info, I get error when trying to change info (domain not found, etc.)... some are expiring in a few weeks... I feel trapped. Other concern is expense of transferring my client names that are not expiring for a couple more years. I think ICANN should request or ask for volunteer registrars to take Registerfly names for free - no cost to either party - no extension of expiration... incentive will be eventual renewal income and new client. I have already spent several hundred dollars transferring names - where I won't bill client until their normal renewal time - some a few years off! How 'bout it GoDaddy - take my names for free - no extention of 1 yr. and I will renew with you when it is time to renew the names.

Grafix Registered | 2007-03-17 15:16:35 I just got off the phone with the mopes over at RegisterFly. The Miami number. Reason - I tried to renew one domain yesterday and again today (twice since the first time didn't go thru - I don't even care about the money at this point) and I called to inquire about the status. I desperately need to do something because it's one of my main domains and it's about to expire and I just prayed that the renewal would take effect but it didn't. What else is new??? I was told by RF customer support that all their servers are down, and that I should transfer my domain away from RegisterFly to another registrar until they can get it together, and then transfer back to them. (As if??? What moron would return to RF if they can ever get away in the first place???) HELLLOOOOOOW!!! I can't move my friggen domains (50+) because I can't get the friggen ProtectFly off. Every time that I try to remove ProtectFly I get a friggen error message. I was very polite of course, I would never rant to any customer support telephone help because that gets you nowhere. So she tells me that she'll put in a tech support request and for me to "call back" on Monday!!! Jesus Christ!!! When is this nightmare going to end???

fitzgerald99 - pendingDelete Registered | 2007-03-17 15:55:32 Hi I have 4 domains that were allowed to expire due to RegisterFly's misconduct, charging for renewals that were never honoured etc. The domains then went into Redemption well before the purported 30 day Grace Period had elapsed. They are now listed as pendingDelete. I cannot afford to have these domains go into public availability. Who can I contact and what can I do? I do not know who can restore the names now, and am not even sure of what pendingDelete means. I have sent emails to ICAAN and Verisign (manager of the .COM registry as they are .com names) but have not received any replies yet. As far as I understand, PIR, the manager of the .ORG registry, has said it will restore all RegisterFly names that have gone into RGP / RHP / pendingDelete status. Verisign has issued no statement on this issue, although we are all hoping they will do likewise. I just phoned them and spoke to Verisign Customer Service and was told that there has been no official word from management, so they cannot comment, and that management is away for the weekend. Who can I contact and what can I do to recover these domains? Please advise. Thanks.

flyswatter - snapping Registered | 2007-03-19 14:15:52 fitzgerald99- Not even if registerfly wanted to help could they do anything for you right now. Your only recourse right now is to go through pool.com and/or snapnames.com. I would suggest both. Pending delete will last about 5 days and the be released. These companies will snap your name for you and charge you $60 only if the snap is successful. I would suggest this to anyone who has important names that are expiring. It doesn't cost anything to order them. For those getting your ICANN tickets closed, do a reply all to the tickets. I did that and although I got a ticket closed notice, I did receive a response from registerfly. They sent me the auth code and told me the name was unlocked. So far the name isn't showing unlocked at the registry, but I have a small bit of hope. This is the first response I've ever received from them.

Tomer_P - Domain is locked, I think Registered | 2007-03-17 16:28:10 Hey, My domain name status is: Code: Domain Status: clientDeleteProhibited Domain Status: clientRenewProhibited Domain Status: clientUpdateProhibited It's locked? stolen by RegisterFly (Kevin Medina?)

flyswatter Registered | 2007-03-19 15:09:56 Your domain is locked. The status will show OK when it is unlocked.

rodr - March 31 != Immediately Registered | 2007-03-17 16:51:41 But close enough, I guess, considering ICANN's normal pace of action.

jr507 - Awesome News Registered | 2007-03-17 16:59:36 This really makes me happy. I almost now don't mind how RF screwed me. I've been posting about it on my website, jimreilly.com and now I get to write the happy ending. They lost one of my client's domains, and did nothing, repeat, NOTHING to remedy the situation, including a refusal to refund my payment. I love it.

pactum - I guess Registered | 2007-03-17 18:03:03 .. that all I can do is what I've been doing, worrying, retrying, and waiting. I dunno. Thankfully, I have only one domain without an auth code. But I have about 15 domains still stuck in locked status, several of which will expire in the next couple of weeks, and one main domain (my main web site biz domain) which expired on the 7th (bringing my nameservers down). It remains to be seen whether I'll be able to sneak out of this mess after March 31. I have my doubts that the issues with my main biz domain will ever be resolved....

whizz - BizWeek Print Article Registered | 2007-03-17 18:43:57 Check it out. Just got the latest issue of BusinessWeek in the mail today. Steve Hamm has done a 1 page article in the current issue titled: "Is Your Domain Safe" Hats off to Mr. Hamm! He pretty much skewers RF and points to ICANN taking a long time to do anything. ICANN is reported to be about to bring about reform proposals at its board meeting this week ... something about "more training for registrars". Ha. ICANN, read this: You don't get it. The registrar system is unregulated, fragile in terms of durability and obviously subject to questionable practices, though some might use the adjectives "fraudulent" or "corrupt". So, you just want to train them to do that more efficiently? No definitive statement from ICANN about helping to protect the customers that are being creamed by RF. There are some good folks at ICANN (such as Mike Z.) and let's hope the ICANN board listens to them ... Fortunately, Mr. Hamm has brought reporting this fiasco into the mainstream press and that is a very good thing IMHO. It is stunning that there is so little other coverage of this - hundreds of thousands of customers impaired/hurt, millions of domain names involved, scandal, Federal court, etc. Why, other than BizWeek, is there so little about this out there - and, by the way, where is the Dept. of Commerce and the FTC when you need them? Thank you Mr. Hamm - let's hope others read your work and take notice

Nuclear Moose - Accredited or not - who cares? Registered | 2007-03-17 19:39:36 Registerfly loses its accreditation but that changes nothing for me. I still can't renew my expired domains nor can I get Auth Codes to transfer my other domains. This doesn't feel like a win to me at all.

diogenes99 - bulk tranfers by ICANN Registered | 2007-03-17 20:27:43 In a bulk transfer, if it happens, I bet the domains with non-registerfly DNS information will be ok. But most, I bet, are URL forward domains. They are screwed in a bulk transfer. And what will happen to the registerfly hosted sites?

Dunning Registered | 2007-03-17 21:34:27 As whizz said... Quote: You don't get it. The registrar system is unregulated, fragile in terms of durability and obviously subject to questionable practices, though some might use the adjectives "fraudulent" or "corrupt". So, you just want to train them to do that more efficiently? I couldnt agree more... The system is open to corruption and they are not addressing that issue. Why dont ICANN have a record of every domain name's owner details (whois) so when something like this happens they can recover domains for the owners? Also, if ICANN were aware that registerfly were taking money from peoples accounts without providing a service arent they liable for NOT reporting it to the authorities? eg: if you see a crime being committed, you are guilty for NOT reporting it or helping out !

Dunning Registered | 2007-03-17 21:45:54 One more point that is really getting on my nerves. ICANN has not exactly gone out of its way to notify those in the dark that their domains are at risk. At least GODADDY has put a banner on their website alerting RF customers that the carriages up ahead are crushed... and the destruction is coming their way. You know... I contacted the New Jersey BBB (?) last year about all this crap with RF and they advised me NOT to blog on this website !!!! EVERYONE has their heads in the sand! Well, I work for one of the online mastheads for News Corp. I will definately be chatting with my editor about publishing a story this week about this fiasco.

CedarPark - re: CONTACTING ICANN WITH ISSU Registered | 2007-03-17 22:35:15 gearedup wrote: Here's one for you!!! I sent the "so-called" required list of domain names that I was having problems with, including the date and the specific problem I was having with Registerfly to ICANN at: transfer-questions@icann.org ....I started this process early last week as I was instructed to do! The response I just got from ICANN???? "The ticket you are referring to has been closed. If you feel that this is in error, please submit a new email with no ticket number and a new ticket will be created. Thank you. NOTHING HAD BEEN ADDRESSED, CORRECTED OR FIXED. I have the SAME problems I did when I wrote the letter!!! I just received my 2nd response from ICANN telling me my ticket is closed and if I am still having problems to email them again and they will open up a new ticket. This is bull! I don't know what is worse.. not having my tickets from RF answered, or having ICANN tell me its answered when its not.

cube1 Registered | 2007-03-18 08:08:56 Yes, that is what you have to do - email them again. When they send the 1st message, it closes out the ticket, so the auto responder deep sixes the response. Reply to the original message, but yank the ticket number out of the reply subject. Always remember that an awful lot of folks who are not responsible for this mess are trying to do what they can -- be persistant, but be civil to them -- even the RF folks answering the phones, as well as the ICANN folks who are trying to help and some of the folks inside RF that are trying to be helpful when they can.

dsmj - Video #2 Registered | 2007-03-17 22:37:23 http://www.brightcove.com/title.jsp?title=663505452

each1 - How about the money we paid??? Registered | 2007-03-17 22:53:58 I want my money back...

Dunning Registered | 2007-03-17 23:07:04 nmutchler Quote: I did find one thing - if you go to your account manager - and tick the box on 1 of your domains with no info that won't allow you to update - It's the bulk manage feature - then go to the bottom of the screen and click modify. then do the drop down for modify contact information - it will show your correct information - all except the billing (in my case) I took a screenshot of that (for what it's worth) - and have saved emails that show where I tried to edit my information for those domains. Yes i know about that... all it is doing is populating your saved or default whois data into the contacts fields... but to what effect? As soon as you try and save it you get an error stating 'domain not found' and the fields revert back to being blank. I dont think it is of any use m8. Surprisingly, the 'domain not found' problem is NOT a new one. I was experiencing similar problems last year and even before that ! I have asked Registerfly REPEATEDLY to fix my control panel and corrupted information for a few years... They have been notified by many other irate customers for a LONG LONG TIME that there are corruptions within their systems and data. I even had domains in my control panel stating renewal X.X.2007 that I DID NOT RENEW and DO NOT OWN any longer! However they are still there... I call them GHOST DOMAINS. Clear case of negligence on their part. LOL, I STILL get domain renewal reminders for domains that were either moved long ago or I no longer own... Its the biggest mess I have ever seen. Glad these idiots are losing their accreditation.... now we just need to make sure we : 1) get our domains that have no AUTH/whois info back... and I guess that is ICANN's court now. DO NOT give up and let ICANN wash their hands of it! 2) Ensure that the people responsible are NEVER allowed to be involved in a registrar again ! Wouldnt it just suck if they started up a new registrar and ICANN gave them accreditation ? DONT LAUGH... it could happen !

edpudol Registered | 2007-03-17 23:59:12 I wish ICANN make their move now, don't wait March 31. I agree with the other guy point, why they don't ask one of those registrar to accomodate all domains in registerfly.com including domains that can't be renewed.... with out charging 1 year renewal process. There are lot of sites, including some of my domains are big sites and source of our living but all expired and can't be renewed because of this mess. Why ICANN wait another 15 days, is that mean that we will wait 15 days before we eat?

Stanley Registered | 2007-03-18 00:58:16 [sarcasm] Well now...that fixes everything doesn't it ICANN? [/sarcasm] I still can't renew, manage or transfer the few names that are left at RegisterFly. My emails to ICANN and Enom are unanswered. Apparently everyone that should be being held accountable for this mess is being given a "Get Out Of Jail Free" card.

traveltext - HA HA HA Registered | 2007-03-18 02:30:11 Wow a sign of life af Rf. Check out: https://registerfly.com/scripts/account.php Special Offer! YOU ARE OFFICIALLY f**cked by our boss KEVIN. He f**cked me then he f**cked you. visit www.registerflea.com to find out just how f**cked....

mcihellec - my problems with registerfly Registered | 2007-03-18 04:51:11 i have a few domains with them and we are unable to transfers. In fact my domain always keeps on appearing and disappearing very often. In fact, i have monies in the account but still cannot get back my money. and the thing is the domain does not have any auth code to allow me to transfer. i hhope all peoples' issue can be solve asap and that we can transfer out out domains.

Dunning - OFFICIALLY FUC%$# Registered | 2007-03-18 06:32:02 Well, I was just trying to finish screen saving stuff in Registerfly, and this appeared on the HOME PAGE: Special Offer! YOU ARE OFFICIALLY f**cked by our boss KEVIN. He f**cked me then he f**cked you. visit www.registerflea.com to find out just how f**cked.... Well well, looks like he has screwed over yet another employee... All I can say is hahahahaha

blakilox Registered | 2007-03-18 06:35:53 Once you have your Auth codes, and you have requested the domain, dosent this fix everything? Note: If there was no response to the request in 5 days, the transfer submitted by the Gaining Registrar is honored by the Registry and the domain is automatically transferred to them. The Gaining Registrar is identified in the transfer confirmation email where you obtained the key, and can be contacted for information relating to the request they submitted for your domain. I'm waiting for a few hundred domains to turn up, noresponse so far, has anyone had experience with this point? will it automatically go through without the consent of registerfly. I know the under 60 days thing, but why would they write that?

Dunning - REGISTERLY DEFACED Registered | 2007-03-18 06:55:21 REGISTERLY DEFACED SCREEN CAPTURE HERE: http://www.360news.info/16-march-2007_registerfly-terminated.htm blakilox yes mate you are correct. IF U have auth codes, you are fine. The problem is that many of us CANNOT get the auth codes. Our whois is blank, auth codes are either blank or RRP (ie contact registerfly... and they dont respond)

Dunning - ATTENTION RF DEFACER Registered | 2007-03-18 07:00:00 ATTENTION RF DEFACER Please come online and tell us your story... we want to know what is going on there. Or email the news site in the above post... Why wont Kevin release AUTH CODES or fix anything? Very cool m8

reedsofyork - This is a harbinger of the end Registered | 2007-03-18 07:25:18 Logged into my RF control panel and this greeted me (edited as to not offend) Special Offer! YOU ARE OFFICIALLY F***ED by our boss KEVIN. He f***ed me then he f***ed you. visit www.registerflea.com to find out just how F***ED.... I got my 1 domain out three weeks ago after four weeks of effort. I als used RF for hosting services. Went to IX Webhosting for hosting and GoDaddy for domain maintenance. Glad to be out of RF. good luck to all.

Grafix - re: Registered | 2007-03-18 07:27:09 blakilox wrote: I'm waiting for a few hundred domains to turn up, noresponse so far, has anyone had experience with this point? will it automatically go through without the consent of registerfly. I know the under 60 days thing, but why would they write that? Another day of h*ll. I am currently trying to transfer my domains to Dotster/MyDomain, but until I can remove the ProtectFly from my RF domains, nothing's happening. It's been a couple of weeks now and I keep getting auto e-mails from MyDomain which state that the transfer has been stopped due to no contact from admin (RF - the contact when ProtectFly has been applied) so I don't believe that five day no administrative contact policy is effective. I was on the phone with RF yesterday (Saturday) and was told to call back on Monday regarding removing the ProtectFly from my domains. So I'm going to follow-up on that tomorrow. And I'm also going to contact MyDomain and advise them that if they can't help me transfer my domains I'm going to contact another registrar. At this point, I don't give a care who it is just as long as I can move and control my own domains. Meanwhile, I'm about to get a GD ulcer. But I guess if I have a heart attack and a stroke the ulcer won't matter that much

cube1 Registered | 2007-03-18 08:01:38 Check out the success thread here. If the RF site WhoIS is correct, then you can usually get rid of ProtectFly and get your contact email address set to a real one by creating a 2nd account at RF and putting your domain there (instantaneous). The exceptions are cases where the RF database is wrong -- either does not have the domain or shows another registrar (mine like that show eNom). For those, follow the instructions from Mike Zupke on the ICANN site. You will have to be persistant, and even then success at getting ahold of someone inside RF who can actually fix this is not guaranteed. But short of waiting for an ICANN sponsored bulk transfer to a different registrar, it is your only hope.

Dunning - ATTENTION GRAFIX (edited) Registered | 2007-03-18 08:24:49 Quote: And I'm also going to contact MyDomain and advise them that if they can't help me transfer my domains I'm going to contact another registrar Its not MYDOMAIN's fault. Unless your domain is unlocked by registerfly, NO REGISTRAR will be able to transfer your doms. Join the club... Ive been sick as a dog last few weeks (transfering 150 domains but over 30 still stuck with no whois/auth codes or RRP) Ive been at this for hours a day for weeks. Im going loopy here. BAD KARMA COMIN YOUR WAY KEVIN !

Grafix Registered | 2007-03-18 07:31:10 Oh. My. God. I can't believe that notice is really on the RF website. I don't know how to do a screen shot. Somebody needs to get a screenshot of this and send it to ICANN!

maxx - re: OFFICIALLY FUC%$# Registered | 2007-03-18 07:48:10 Dunning wrote: Well, I was just trying to finish screen saving stuff in Registerfly, and this appeared on the HOME PAGE: Special Offer! YOU ARE OFFICIALLY f**cked by our boss KEVIN. He f**cked me then he f**cked you. visit www.registerflea.com to find out just how f**cked.... Well well, looks like he has screwed over yet another employee... All I can say is hahahahaha rofl, that is hilarious

Dunning Registered | 2007-03-18 07:50:15 Grafix - I got a screenshot.... http://www.360news.info/17-march-2007_registerfly-terminated.htm What do you expect ICANN to do about it?

Dunning - KEVIN MEDINA READ THIS Registered | 2007-03-18 08:22:39 I have sent screen shot to some major news outlets... Lets hope they see it as news worthy too. Hey Kevin - life is gonna just keep getting harder and harder untill youy RELEASE OUR DAMNED AUTH CODES !!!!! Every day, your enemies multiply in number !

wheel - Registerfly TUCOWS reseller ac Registered | 2007-03-18 09:48:03 Hello, I'm wondering if it is possible for registerfly to transfer out all of the domains it's holding under it's own accreditation to it's TUCOWS reseller account and continue it's crooked business from there? That could get bad if they can simply continue reselling for TUCOWS since they can't use ENOM anymore. Just a random thought.

landbaronbob - ICANN logo Registered | 2007-03-18 10:12:38 What gives? I see the ICANN logo still being advertised on both registerfly.com & .net !

bigfoot - ICANN Logo Registered | 2007-03-18 13:16:03 Basically they've taken the logo off the front page and left it on a footer of some kind. At this stage in the demise of RF, what is ICANN going to do? They can sue for breach of License (a civil matter) but if RF has no corporate money they'll get nothing. From what is posted and what is proven, they don't have a lot of our money left never mind their own!

gtcway Registered | 2007-03-18 14:44:05 They have $31 of mine and the website is down. All I get is 504 Gateway Time-out

each1 - You are lucky! Registered | 2007-03-18 14:51:42 We've lost over 10 times more...

gtcway Registered | 2007-03-18 14:54:19 I don't really care about the $31 that was left in my account. I just want my domains back

cube1 Registered | 2007-03-18 15:00:04 I have had some evidence by way of some emails involving some changes to a one of my domains that I asked RF for help with, that maybe some folks in RF may be trying to fix some things (in particular, maybe they can clean up the issues with their back-end registry data that is causing all the "domain not found" errors. If so, the 504 gateway timeout could be a sign of that. (I know, wishful thinking. But I find that helpful right now....)

each1 - They deleted my account Registered | 2007-03-18 14:49:01 They deleted my account and I couldn't access to Control Pannel anymore. Suppose I'm a new customer and today is the first day I visit RF, maybe I'll pay my money to this ugly fly. I can't understand why this liar still has its AD on each page and I couldn't image how many innocent people will be f**ked by RF everyday. I renewed my domains for MANY times until I got this site. Their heartless support team never told you the truth. I swear all of them will be punished in the future.

pactum - altogether too funny Registered | 2007-03-18 14:56:17 Today I received a notice from Registerfly that my main web biz domain had expired. No, duh. It expired on the 7th - 2-3 weeks after I had attempted to begin transfer to GoDaddy, but unsuccessfully, since almost all my domains are locked. Bah.

dreamerofwords - Registerfly.com is down (& out Registered | 2007-03-18 15:25:44 No success in accessing the Registerfly.com website. Do you think they took the money and ran? I was successful in obtaining my auth codes by opening a new account and changing ownership of all sites. If Registerfly.com returns, I recommend this procedure to everyone involved. Until then, we shall wait and see what unfolds.

mikefast Registered | 2007-03-18 15:56:59 THANKS ICANN!!!ICANN is the one who f**cked us. At least last week some people could change dns, transfer, get email, push to ENOM or a few other things etc. BUT ICANN comes in, says to email ICANN with problems and and all the vital stats and info and that wasted 3 days of valuable time. Then ICANN tells them it all over and gives them 15 more days to destroy everything and hijack all our doamins and ruin all records and to write FUCK YOU on the front page of their website and anything else they want to do. ICANN IS WORTHLESS AS TITS ON A BOAR, and that would be OK but they are not satisfied being worthless. They had to go in and FUCK up everything to boot for all of us. ICANN doesn't have any domain names at R-Fly. If www.ICANN.org was registerred at R-Fly and down and none of those stupid ICANN inepts were getting any email and their website was down and nothing was happening I bet they would have been more than an "omnibudsman" (or whatever they called it). The stupid fuckers weren't getting their 25 cent fees so they finally took action. Action that does NOTHING for us. ICANN gave them them 15 days to fuck everything up!!! That would be like the FBI busting a drug dealing child porn business and just after they bust the doors down they tell everybody in the room "We're coming back in 15 days to arrest you and take all your stuff if any of it is still here!" I mean what were theyn thinking would happen?

whizz - Tip for .CA domains Registered | 2007-03-18 16:06:23 Looks like all .CA domains were resold by RF and based at Tucows. They are apparently still really based at Tucows from the point of view of the .CA registry, CIRA. Getting them transfered is not hard - even without an auth. code or with garbage (ProtectFly or otherwise) in the admin/tech/billing/etc. contact info. In our case, our .CA domains had scrambled entires at RegisterFly that could not be changed and no visible auth. codes. We moved them by starting a transfer process at Tucows registrar www.domaindirect.com for each domain. You then get plunged into a challenge response system via email with CIRA - the actual national registry in Canada. It turns out that while the CIRA process might take a while, it really guards the interests of the domain owner. We were never asked for an auth. code during the entire process! In fact, there was very little interaction with the registrar (Tucows) and none with RegisterFly. The only real interact was with the CIRA registry, all via email. What a breath of fresh air! Or domains were moved within the first hour of starting the process and appeared in the domain management system at DomainDirect within 24 hours. RegisterFly was never even involved and no email originated from RF in the process. While some people might have problems with Tucows, at least our .CA domains are safe. Makes you wish ICANN force all registries and transfer processes to work this way.

Grafix Registered | 2007-03-18 16:22:40 Thanks Dunning. I don't know what ICANN will do but perhaps they'll make an additional demand or expedite the existing deadline. Why should they give RF two weeks to comply when the site is now being hacked into. Not only are our domains being held hostage, they're not even being held securely Thanks Cube. I'm going to attempt that push thing later on today when I'm able to focus on what I'm doing. I'm no procratinator but I need to be able to concentrate when I'm doing web work and I'm too upset right now. Obviously ICANN is aware of the ProtectFly issue http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-2-08mar07.htm and so I don't understand why ICANN can't override their normal transfer policies, make a one time exception due to the unusual circumstances and simply allow us to transfer our domains. It's a disgrace that a major segment of the online community that derives their income and livelihood via our domains, e-commerce websites, image hosting, eBay businesses or whatever we've got going on can't control our own domains, can't extend due to renewals lapsing because of some permanent server failures at RF, and all the other mess this has created. This is akin to our bank accounts being frozen, the phone system being shut down, the roads being closed or our legs being cut-off. We're helpless. If anyone besides me paid via PayPal (which seems to be the only payment option at RF right now) if we all complain to PayPal about not getting what was paid for, PayPal will close RF's account.

Nuclear Moose - re: Registered | 2007-03-18 18:54:28 Grafix wrote: SNIP If anyone besides me paid via PayPal (which seems to be the only payment option at RF right now) if we all complain to PayPal about not getting what was paid for, PayPal will close RF's account. I simply used PayPal's dispute resolution tools - it was them sending an email to RF on my behalf, and within 24 hours my money had been refunded w/o direct intervention from PayPal.

Beto Registered | 2007-03-19 16:25:05 I did the same. I had renewed in february thru Paypal, but RFly system didn't recognize my payment, though I was billed by Paypal. I made a complaint in Paypal, Paypal asked for RFly to answer the complaint. Since RFly didn't answer in the proper time, I won the dispute and got my money back in about 10 days. And about my domains, I was able to unlock them, after disabling the ProtectFly thing. Then I got my auth codes and moved them to Namecheap. Even the domain that was already in redemption period - RFly had moved it to redemption after the renewal didn't work. Now I'm free!

adawson - re: re: Registered | 2007-03-20 12:50:40 Nuclear Moose wrote: Grafix wrote: SNIP If anyone besides me paid via PayPal (which seems to be the only payment option at RF right now) if we all complain to PayPal about not getting what was paid for, PayPal will close RF's account. I simply used PayPal's dispute resolution tools - it was them sending an email to RF on my behalf, and within 24 hours my money had been refunded w/o direct intervention from PayPal. I wish my credit card had an on line dispute resolution tool... I'm down 50 bucks!

xaver - RegisterFly.com functioning Registered | 2007-03-18 16:38:57 I can login in to my account at RegisterFly.com. There are no fcuk or similar words at the homepage and I did not search further. My remaining domains that had RRP are still having RRP, domains with blank Auth code have still blank Auth code. I have probably to wait until the bulk transfer, that will be under control of ICANN to solve these problematic domains.

bigfoot - re: RegisterFly.com functionin Registered | 2007-03-18 18:39:34 xaver wrote: I can login in to my account at RegisterFly.com. There are no fcuk or similar words at the homepage and I did not search further. My remaining domains that had RRP are still having RRP, domains with blank Auth code have still blank Auth code. I have probably to wait until the bulk transfer, that will be under control of ICANN to solve these problematic domains. Same for me. The message was taken down quite quickly as by 12noon GMT or there-abouts it had gone.

Nuclear Moose - re: Registered | 2007-03-18 18:51:14 Stanley wrote: I still can't renew, manage or transfer the few names that are left at RegisterFly. My emails to ICANN and Enom are unanswered. Apparently everyone that should be being held accountable for this mess is being given a "Get Out Of Jail Free" card. I'm in exactly the same boat. NOBODY is answering my emails. I did a WHOIS on my most important domain, and it says eNom is the registrar, except that I only just created an account with them and all of my emails about the domain have gone unanswered. If the internet is all about empowering people, I'm not feeling the love. I'm just feeling like one tiny nobody in all of this mess.

oshea_in_hell - Nuclear Moose: Check the FAQ Registered | 2007-03-18 22:15:26 NuclearMoose, Your domain is with Enom because before 2/1/2006 (last year), Registerfly acted as a reseller of Enom services, not as its own registrar. Enom and Registerfly (RF) had a tiff in early Feb., and Enom cut off RF. Accounts that had Whois enabled were anonymous to Enom. (RF had the true customer data, but not Enom). If you account has your own name on it at Enom (not RF's name), and has Enom as registrar (be VERY happy). All you need to do is contact Elida.flores@enom.com, and explain to here the name of your new Enomcentral account, and that you would like the domain pushed from the RF account where it sits now at Enom, to your own account. If the name data on the whois for the domain, and the name data for the enomcentral account match, they will push the account...

Nuclear Moose - Thanks for the info Registered | 2007-03-18 23:49:29 oshea_in_hell, thank you for your help...i will do just that!

aussiebattler - transferred domains should dis Registered | 2007-03-19 06:09:38 Glorious relief. I managed to extract all the domains from RegisterFly. I am really grateful for the efforts of this site. Now, I am waiting for my domains to disappear from RF's list -- that'll be the icing on the cake.

adawson - re: transferred domains should Registered | 2007-03-20 12:48:43 aussiebattler wrote: Glorious relief. I managed to extract all the domains from RegisterFly. I am really grateful for the efforts of this site. Now, I am waiting for my domains to disappear from RF's list -- that'll be the icing on the cake. The only name I had disappearing from my registerfly account was the only one I hadn't transfered away! And I'm buggered if I can figure out how to get hold of it again!

stealth - re: Nuclear Moose: Check the Registered | 2007-03-19 12:50:48 oshea_in_hell wrote: All you need to do is contact Elida.flores@enom.com. If only it were that easy! I have emailed her numerous times over the last few weeks and havent heard shit. I am sure she is busy with all this, but still...

pissedoff - re: re: Nuclear Moose: Check Registered | 2007-03-19 17:51:07 stealth wrote: oshea_in_hell wrote: All you need to do is contact Elida.flores@enom.com. If only it were that easy! I have emailed her numerous times over the last few weeks and havent heard shit. I am sure she is busy with all this, but still... Everytime I had to use the following email address elida@enom.com I heard back within 24 hours.

jonangel - This is all just rediculous Registered | 2007-03-19 22:34:45 I am just about at the end of my rope. I played along with ICANN's stupid message relay to RF about 5 days ago I got an email from ICANN that told me to wait 2 days for my auth codes an to report to them if the issue is not resolved. I have had no response so, I called ICANN today and got put off for ... 'maybee 5 more days' ... because 'we are getting thousands of emails a day on this' ... 'and you just have to be paitient' ... So I asked about the bulk transfer mentioned on http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-2-16mar07.htm where it states Quote: When the Agreement is terminated, ICANN can approve a bulk transfer of all current RegisterFly domain names to another ICANN accredited Registrar. ICANN told me that this 'has not yet been decided' in a standoffish tone. I am starting to wonder if they actually ment ALL domains at RF not just all of a customers domain names that makes a request. I think at this point that it is just plain silly that ICANN has not completely resolved this matter. Swat the fly!

Stanley Registered | 2007-03-20 01:55:52 Thanks to Enom finally taking action on my behalf, I now only have 7 domains still at RegisterFly. These 7 domains are registered through RF itself and are completely missing from my control panel (WHOIS is correct though). Of course this total does not include expired names that I will likely never get back...

vrunkel Registered | 2007-03-20 11:36:47 Hi, when hearing the news about RegisterFly I was relieved that ICANN does prevent further damage. Only my second thought was "damn , some friends who went to the US and are not to computer savvy are customers with them" ... so I was looking for a way to help them here from Germany. Did I mention how bad time-zones are for sleep ? While browsing for some useful help documents to help them help their-self I stumbled after some tiring searching over a very detailed step-by-step information that was easy enough to understand even for my friends: http://www.dyndns.com/images/pdf/fleewithglee.pdf it is published by DynDNS but should cover the routines necessary for other Webhosts as well. It did for my friends. So if you are still not sure what and how to get your domains and mail - you might find some clues in there. Volker

adawson - re: CONTACTING ICANN WITH ISSU Registered | 2007-03-20 12:44:35 gearedup wrote: Here's one for you!!! I sent the "so-called" required list of domain names that I was having problems with, including the date and the specific problem I was having with Registerfly to ICANN at: transfer-questions@icann.org ....I started this process early last week as I was instructed to do! The response I just got from ICANN???? "The ticket you are referring to has been closed. If you feel that this is in error, please submit a new email with no ticket number and a new ticket will be created. Thank you." This is the response I received after the "wait two days" letter. NOTHING HAD BEEN ADDRESSED, CORRECTED OR FIXED. I have the SAME problems I did when I wrote the letter!!! ...Now I'm getting the same support as Registerfly provides. ...... I am so disgusted. I had exactly the same experience. ICANN is as bad as registerfly frankly they need to be CANNED or at least renamed as ICANT.

kimvette Administrator | 2007-03-20 14:56:04 Actually this whole situation has been a wake-up call to ICANN and it is clear from statements and admissions on their blog that they are painfully aware that they are ultimately responsible for registrars actions. So, for their upcoming conference one of the topics is going to be changes in their accreditation process and they are setting up a web site where registrant input will be welcomed. I gave Justin a heads up and we're going to make any information we can find available here on this site. ICANN is welcoming input, so rather than attacking them, let us embrace this opportunity and provide constructive suggestions and criticism while it is welcome?

jonangel - Fustration Registered | 2007-03-20 15:55:53 kimvette, I understand and have been as polite as possible in regard to ICANN and the entire situation. I would love to give them some constructive criticism. But I have to let this fustration out somewhere... so please excuse me while I whine about my problems. I got a response from ICANN today regarding my 2nd request for auth codes and they did not close my ticket! Instead they responded: Quote: Thank you for your message. Please check your SPAM folder to ensure you did not miss their email and we will ask them again to contact you. Regards, ICANN Wow! Very helpful and informative of you ICANN. … Ahhh that feels better. Thanks for listening.

freddieb - What can i say? Registered | 2007-03-25 02:24:47 This blog says it all!

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