ICANN May Act Against RegisterFly

1sockchuck writes "ICANN says it will terminate RegisterFly's accreditation as a domain registrar if the company can't fix its problems within 15 days. The edict comes with RegisterFly in chaos and current management blaming a departed executive for its woes. The situation is complicated by the fact that RegisterFly sold some of its domains through a reseller agreement with eNom, and others using its own accreditation."

Comments

There is always one.

[Anonymous Coward]

There is always one jerk ready to ruin a company to further his own goals and ambitions. They want power more than they want the company to succeed.

Avoid the fate of this company and fire him early.

Re:There is always one.

[sharkey]

You might want to search for Registerfly and eNom on Google. When we were looking for a cost-effective SSL provider, a quick search on google turned us right away from registerfly.

Coincidence

[lbft]

Isn't it a nice coincidence that, despite all the troubles Registerfly's had, the only time ICANN stepped in and did anything was when they were owed money?

Its why I use Netsol for eveything:P

[WarlockD]

I think its just me, but I just don't "trust" my webhost provider ordering my domain for me. Heck, its still hard for me to trust GoDaddy, even if they are a resonable provider, just because the name dosn't sound profesional

Bleh, I am not hip anymore.

What will happen to the domains

[Anonymous Coward]

So what happens to the domains when Register Fly goes under? Will you be able to freely get them them through other companies?

Sorry to say

[slashdot.org]

As can be seen on RegisterFlies, it appears that some of the officers at RegisterFly are trying to fix the problems. The new CEO claims to have put in all his private assets to make this work.

There is some skeptisism in the forums because people aren't seeing immediate results. Well fair enough. BUT.

There's something that bothers me a lot more though.

Assuming that RegisterFlies doesn't make all this stuff up, then the other officers (John & Glen) keep on making very strong allegations towards Kevin Medina. (e.g. from the official statement by the new CEO John: "Mr. Medina is a selfish, cold hearted, self loving, criminal.") Well, I don't know much about the legal system, but I would suspect that any lawyer would give you the strongest advice not to even mention the guy's name until all lawsuits have been settled. I mean this is just asking for counter libel/slander (whatever the proper word is) suits.

If you just put all your private assets into a company, why would you make it susceptible to that?

Next, if you read the forums, people have sustained extremely serious damage. Kevin Medina may have been causing all this, a court will have to decide, but it's very likely that some very hefty lawsuits will be filed against RegisterFly by their customers (and not Kevin Medina, their contract is with RF after all). Why would anyone invest all they have into a company that is set up for this sort of trouble?

If John and Glen are doing what is being reported on RegisterFlies, then all the power to them. I hope for them it works out, but I'm sorry to say that it's hard to see a positive future for RegisterFly.

I hope I'm responsible for this...

[RecycledElectrons]

After receiving over 5,000 spams a day (for months) referencing domains regsitered by registerfly.com, I gave up being nice and asking for the contact information of the scum sending these eMails. I began a war on their customer service, sales, and tech support accounts. I'm responsible for at least 5,000 spams being delivered to them daily, and will continue to do so until they are out of business.

Andy Out!

CEASE ALL TRANSACTIONS WITH REGISTERFLY!

[kimvette]

From Registerflies:

  CEASE ALL TRANSACTIONS WITH REGISTERFLY!
Written by Administrator
Friday, 23 February 2007
Site Hacked and Data Corrupted

Attention everyone. I just received confirmation that the Registerfly site has currently been hacked into and taken over by Kevin Medina in the Florida office. I was asked to put this up here due to the amount of customers that are sending money. At this moment, they are trying to get police in Florida to arrest Kevin immediately.

I'm relaying a message that they have asked me to put up on here. They have lost control of even the site and are locked out of the system. The data has been corrupted but they do have a back up and are scrambling to get this situation resolved.

Your support forms on this site will be held right now and forwarded when we know the proper management team has control of the data.

This is only what I've been told and this is currently the only medium of communication that the current management of Registerfly has. More updates soon.