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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. Re:Why godaddy? by eln · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm guessing probably because GoDaddy had the capacity to take them, and probably approached ICANN with a canned solution ready to go at a time when ICANN was running around like a chicken with its head cut off trying to figure out what to do. Now that customers have control over their domains again, they should be able to transfer them to whatever registrar they want.

  2. Re:Why godaddy? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Because GoDaddy offered a wad of cash to Registerfly to buy their customers. (ICANN called it a "commercial transaction") Registerfly gets the cash they need to pay court fees, GoDaddy gets thousands of new customers (lots of revenue potential from renewals and add-ons), and registerfly customers get control of their domains back. A win-win-win deal, more or less.

  3. Re:If My Experience is Any Indication.... by TooMuchToDo · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How about you pay more then $3/month if you want reliable hosting, eh? You get what you pay for.

  4. Re:If My Experience is Any Indication.... by Knara · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Where's my mod points when I need them...

    Businesses should not be run on shared hosting accounts. Every time there's a hardware problem on a Dreamhost shared box/cluster, for example, there's a whole pile of morons complaining that their business is losing money, etc etc.

    Dedicated hosting or colocation, people. Pay for an SLA!

  5. Re:If My Experience is Any Indication.... by OverlordQ · · Score: 4, Insightful

    $7 a month *is* cheap. Come back after buying some real servers.

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