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Well its the first ive heard of it. I guess you cant keep up with everything going down in this business, and ive not used Regfly.com for ages. I hope they lose it, lot's of new domainers get sucked into that "Hell" of a Registrar.
Glad to hear this. I know when I contacted ICANN directly months ago about suspicion of criminal activity, they let me know there wasn't really much they could do, besides suggesting I call the BBB and/or the legal authorities in NJ. Happy they have reconsidered.
ICANN has provided notice that it will file a suit against RegisterFly in the United States District Court for the Central District of California seeking a temporary restraining order (TRO) requiring RegisterFly to turn over the data requested and to compel an emergency audit of its books and records.
In addition to this legal action, ICANN today convened a telephone conference among those needed to implement a plan that will help cease unintended deletions. The participants were registries holding RegisterFly names: Afilias (.info), NeuStar (.biz), VeriSign (.com, .net), RegisterFly backend services provider Tucows and eNom (for which RegisterFly was a reseller) as well as representatives of RegisterFly.
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The Registries involved have agreed to move any RegisterFly names in Redemption Grace Period* status into Server-Delete-Prohibited status. This will prevent them from being deleted from the registry and becoming available for re-registration by others. ICANN commends and encourages this example of cooperation to protect registrant data.
so this means that whoever has a name with regfly, their names will be in a grace period. so this means others will have a chance to reg some good premium names that are regged with regfly? :-/ interesting... Glad i dont have any names there
Regardless what ICANN does, who is going to risk doing business with Regfly? Without new revenues, how will they pay their bills? They will be gone in a couple months unless there is more to the business than I understand.