Slashdot Mirror
Some Hope During Registerfly's Meltdown
hookmeister writes "If you registered your domain at Registerfly.com, then you should know it may be locked, and you are at the moment unable to access it through Registerfly's website (video). You may even be unable to renew your domain because it has expired into a status known as 'redemption' through no fault of your own. By all accounts there are just under 2 million domains at risk here. Enom dumped them as a reseller; their SSL cert has expired; it's a mess. Fortunately the principals in this are trying to restore order. The external website registerflies.com, originally crafted as a gripe-zone and forum for Registerfly users, has gotten inside the ranks of the post-shakup Registerfly management, made some friends and connections, and is creating a back-door problem-reporting form that goes directly to those who can correct a domain problem. The official Registerfly support ticketing system remains clogged with thousands of unanswered complaints."
Definitely I'd advise continuing to be a cheapwad, and then coming back to Slashdot to whine to people who can't possibly help you, about how you were "victimized."
yes, definitely do that. It'll be amusing. Not interesting really, but amusing in an "oh there goes another cheapwad, who saw his fate in the future and ignored it" sort of way, which makes it slightly more interesting.
This is a terrible run-on sentence. Furthermore, it's ridiculously formulated to begin with. What the hell was so wrong with "Domains registered through registerfly.com may be locked or inaccessible via their website." Furthermore, what the fuck made them post a video? Even worse: it's a shitty video. It's exactly what you feared when you saw "(video)" up there. I realize that we're all balls-deep inside each other, celebrating web 2.0, but who really needs to see a video of some guy clicking around the internet and getting error messages? Honestly, I'm flabbergasted here. I have no idea why the hell anyone would post that. This is the reason you can't get anyone to RTFA around here. The article fucking sucks.
But let's continue:
More crappy writing. Let's fix it. "Some domains cannot currently be renewed, because users must go through Registerfly to renew them. Registerfly is responsible for nearly two million domains."
There. Isn't that better? Real information, without trying to scare idiots with big words.
The funny thing about this terrible "sentence" is that it's actually the whole story here. How sad is that? Hint to assholes: semicolons are not your playthings. That's not how you use them. Were I to retain your ugly sentence structure, it would read, "Enom dumped them as a reseller, and their SSL certificate has expired; it's a mess."
But I won't, because that reads like shit. So, we're going to say "Registerfly and its parent company have split, and there is some doubt as to which company holds which accounts. Registerfly's SSL certificate has also expired, adding to their users' confusion."
Oh good, the principals. Wait, what the fuck are you talking about? Nothing, that's what. This sentence doesn't even deserve to be rewritten.
Well that's easy to read! Let's boil it down to the tasty data, keeping in mind that websites aren't people, can't make friends, and are generally not alive at all. That ought to help out the cavalier handling of grammar here. "Independent website registerflies.com, once created to host users' complaints about Registerfly's service, now contains information useful for getting domain problems solved."
Holy shit, a coherent and bullshit-free sentence! Let's frame it and hang it at the foot of the story! All together, now, and let's join up some of the shorter sentences:
REM Old programmers don't die. They just GOSUB without RETURN.