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850K RegisterFly Domains Moved To GoDaddy

Posted by kdawson on from the end-of-a-sad-saga dept.

miller60 writes "The long-suffering customers of RegisterFly should soon be able to manage their names again after ICANN arranged for the transfer of its 850,000 domains to GoDaddy.com. ICANN terminated RegisterFly's accreditation back in March but it took a court order to pry the domains loose so they could be transferred to another registrar. For those just joining the story (see earlier discussions on Slashdot), RegisterFly is the New Jersey domain registrar that collapsed amid management chaos in February, leaving most customers unable to manage, renew, or transfer their domains. ICANN, which was widely criticized for its inability to do more for RegisterFly customers, expressed relief at the saga's apparent conclusion."

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  1. And if you had your domain transferred to GoDaddy by Gogl · · Score: 1, Informative

    I suggest you have it transferred again.

  2. Re:"First they came for..." by Gogl · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://www.zoneedit.com/

    I was using them for free DNS service anyway, and they recently added domain registration so I figured I'd switch to them.

  3. Re:Progress, sort of by Derek+Pomery · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well, they did put a notice on their site, just not exactly in a prominent place.
    https://registerfly.com/help/

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  4. Re:Expired domains? by Kalriath · · Score: 2, Informative

    Currently, all RegisterFly domains are (supposed to have been) placed into serverDeleteProhibited status, which means the Central Registry (Verisign) is not able to actually expire them... they remain perpetually locked until they are changed back to pendingRelease, clientTransferProhibited, or some other status. In other words, they can't expire until the mass transfer.

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  5. Re:Why godaddy? by Puppet+Master · · Score: 2, Informative
    ...probably approached ICANN with a canned solution ready to go...

    Actually GoDaddy approached Registerfly alone, outside of ICANN.
    The deal was made on the back end. Kevin Medina
    had to know this was his best alternative because ICANN
    was/is suing the pants off of him.

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