Crisis at Registrar RegisterFly: company in disarray, 2 million domains at risk

[mandy]

This morning, United States District Court Judge Manuel L. Real issued a Permanent Injunction against RegisterFly.

The Court held Registerfly and Kevin Medina personally to be in contempt of the Court’s earlier Preliminary Injunction Order.

So the Court has has ordered Kevin Medina and RegisterFly to publish on its website, within 48 hours, a notice telling people about the termination of it’s accreditation as the Court had set forth in the earlier Preliminary Injunction. The Court also ordered Kevin Medina and RegisterFly to comply with all other aspects of the Preliminary Injunction that it had earlier issued by no later than June 1, 2007 .

If they don’t fully comply with the Preliminary Injunction by June 1, 2007, RegisterFly (or Kevin Medina personally) is required to pay $5,000.00 per day until they do...

full announcement and comments: http://blog.icann.org/?p=131#comments

[jezebel]

RegisterFly is down

Traceroute to Registerfly.com
...
18.  55.02ms  56.02ms  56.00ms  gi1-0-1.car16.dllstx4.theplanet.com 
19. * * * Request Timed Out
20. * * * Request Timed Out

[bargainbloodhound]

RegisterFly is up now but Registerflies site is showing a suspended page.

[mandy]

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has agreed to transfer about 850,000 domain names to GoDaddy from RegisterFly, a struggling rival. Several weeks ago, a Federal judge granted ICANN the right to eliminate RegisterFly's accreditation and to transfer domains away from the company...

ICANN has the cooperation of several other players in the domain name business to make the transfer possible, the group said. Afilias and VeriSign, the top-level registries that hold the most names reserved through RegisterFly, have agreed to give up "considerable fees" that would normally be charged for transfer. In addition, generic top level domain registries such as GNR, NeuStar and PIR also moved to prevent names under the control of RegisterFly but approaching their expiration dates from being deleted...

full article: http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/FnWM...ains.xhtml

[mandy]

RegisterFly sent the following emails to resellers on August 2, 2007 to notify them of new features.  Notice the dates the features were added. 

API Update notification

ResellerFly Userid: xxxxx
Date of notice    : 2006-07-23

The following functions have been added to the reseller API

listdomains  - List all domain names under your reseller account

You can view the entire ResellerFly documentation at
http://registerfly .com/reseller/docs


                On Friday we will be releasing the SSL Cert commands to the API. For a limited time
                you will be able to purchase RapidSSL 128/256 bit certificates via the API for only
                $11.00 /ea.

Reseller Announcement

ResellerFly Userid: xxxxx
Date of notice    : 2006-10-27
We are pleased to announce that $6.99 128/256 Bit SSL Certificates
Are available via the API. The documentation can be downloaded from the
reseller site. There are no pre-pay or volume requirements to obtain this low
price.

You can learn more by visiting this link
http://www.registerfly .com/reseller/ssl/

               

[jezebel]

They finally put the court ordered notice on their home page.