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Registerfly's Accreditation Terminated by ICANN

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the enough-of-that dept.

Punker22 writes "Effective immediately ICANN has terminated RegisterFly.com's accreditation. 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."

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  1. Re:Political Issue by VGPowerlord · · Score: 5, Informative

    A lot of people don't like GoDaddy because they gave up to pressure from some corporation or another and killed an offending domain.

    More accurately, they caved to a DMCA request from News Corp because a list of MySpace passwords were posted on the full-disclosure mailing list, which seclists.org archives.

    You can see the seclists.org posting and the /. coverage of it for more details.

    What's more, GoDaddy offers to unlock domains it has shut down for a fee. I don't know about where you come from, but where I come from, we call that "extortion."

    Here's where things went wrong. (Note: IANAL) In order to file a DMCA with GoDaddy, GoDaddy's relationship with Seclists.org would have to be subject to one of the first four provisions of Title 17 Section 512.
    Those are:
    a. Transitory Digital Network Communications (i.e. network routing, No)
    b. System Caching (No)
    c. Information Residing on Systems or Networks at Direction of Users (No, it's not hosted by GoDaddy)
    d. Information Location Tools (Not by the definition given in this section, which is linking to it from a search site/directory)

    So, where is News Corp claiming to get this justification? For that matter, since when do passwords fall under copyright?
    --
    GLaDOS for President 2016! "Well here we are again. It's always such a pleasure." -- GLaDOS, 2011
  2. Re:story? by dindi · · Score: 5, Informative

    Short:

    2 owners got into power struggle. One locked the other out, the other locked everyone out.

    Effect:
    1. you cannot renew domains,
    2. Support cannot help (just promise)
    3. You do not have auth codes to move your domains away
    4. Finance system does not work
    5. domains are changing data randomly -> dns settings

    For me: my domains were to expire, so I deposited money. Renewal failed, money disappeared, domains expired.
    I spent hours on the phone, they promised to renew manually. Now whois shows it is renewed, Regfly shows it is not. Info changed back to their nameservers and "expirefly".

    So some of my domains I renewed and I paid for are making pay-per-click for them, losing ranking and customers, and I cannot even change the nameservers or transfer them, because they show up as "expired" in their system.

    Just make a search for "registerfly" and you will see all kinds of horror stories.

    I am looking at spending over $400 for unnecessary renewals, and who knows what in revenue. I am in the process of finding a good lawyer and see what I can do about this mess :(.

    I fear though, that for the time a lawsuit would go through they would declare bankruptcy and retract to their Miami Beach villas (yes one owner lives there).