Kevin Medina, you're a dirty, dirty man.

[Rockefeller]

Shit man I knew I should have got out sooner, hope I don't lose my domains there. If we can't secure the domains what's the most likely option? I feel sorry for guys who have established domains still with them...

So do I. I wonder what the final outcome will be?

 

[JMJ]

Another misinformed post from yet another noncustomer. There are issues but the majority are "the sky is falling" rumors. Why people seem to get a nut off of other peoples problems is beyond me. You may want to check site which was the source of most misinformation for the most recent update that the sky isn't actually falling.

And you can very well bet that between Registerfly, eNom, Verisign, and ICANN it all gets worked out because they ALL have skeletons in their closets on this matter and many, many more. This isn't just about one guy living it up or one company this is about all of these organizations dropping the ball and not doing what they were paid to do.

 

[Theo]

As a former RegisterFly customer I have asked them numerous times to stop spamming me with "offers" and whatnot - to no avail. I hope they clean up the bad weeds within their organization and shape up before it's too late and they file for chapter 7.

 

[Rockefeller]

congrats on the 10,000 post Acroplex.

..and I concur.

 

[dcristo]

Thinking about this more, this is bloody insane! For guys who have established websites earning good revenues tied up with them, that's a lot of money to just give up. Hopefully something good still comes of it.

 

[namestrands]

It is that.. I luckily was tipped off by my account manager at ENOM, and they transferred all domains from RF at a discounted rate.

 

[Togoodhlth]

Another misinformed post from yet another noncustomer. There are issues but the majority are "the sky is falling" rumors. Why people seem to get a nut off of other peoples problems is beyond me. You may want to check site which was the source of most misinformation for the most recent update that the sky isn't actually falling.

And you can very well bet that between Registerfly, eNom, Verisign, and ICANN it all gets worked out because they ALL have skeletons in their closets on this matter and many, many more. This isn't just about one guy living it up or one company this is about all of these organizations dropping the ball and not doing what they were paid to do.

JMJ I'm not sure how this can be downplayed. Do you realize that Registerfly now has NO security certificate! That tens of thousands of domains have already been lost! Man that's pretty serious stuff. Not like one guy lost a couple names this is a big f'ing deal!

I lost 3 names in this debacle however I paid for all 3. All 3 were supposed to have been renewed. All 3 were not.
My fourth domain which was renewed twice was almost lost. I was one of the lucky ones. I was able to actually unlock it before losing it and my contact at enom was able to get it out.

Of the names I lost none were worth more than a few hundred bucks but imagine if it was one of my ecommerce sites? My lively hood and the lively hood of many of my employees?

ICANN office of the Ombudsman - "70% of the non-jurisdictional contacts my office has received have concerned registerfly"
70%! and that is with tons and tons of customers who are not domainers still in the dark.

I don't know how this can be spun into just some minor problem. This is a catastrophe for many.

Here is a good video of what many are experieincing right now:

Regfly video
http://charlesferri.com/

 

[Theo]

That was an awesome video.

 

[Focus]

I personally would love to kick Medina's a$$...

 

[namestrands]

I just spoke to a guy who is a reseller for regfly, he has over 2,000 domains in total over 240 resold accounts.. he has gone into hiding as people are calling him with death threats..

That truly does suck, for lack of a better word.

 

[JMJ]

Scratch that idea they are moving the servers apparently.

 

[Nacho]

Thank you Rockefeller for digging that up! I have for a long-time scratched my head about what was going on. I believe my frustrations with them have taken a toll on my longevity. Excited to hear justice is perhaps right around the corner. Anyone interested in picking up some shares of this fine company?

 

[Togoodhlth]

You're missing the point. Oh and when you login do they have a new security certificate?
(umm, their site was just down...I was looking to see if they had their security certificate back and "Unable to Connect")
The rest of this may be a moot point.......

You need to read the entire issue from the beginning. They lost their freakin' account with enom. They were locked out for non payment! So we paid them, they didnt pay enom, they lost our names, they kept the $$$$!

Names NOT with enom were not affected. Or most were not affected.

If you were a registerfly customer when they were an enom reseller and your name was locked then you were basically fighting a uphill battle.
Further they didnt tell anyone they just let names expire even ones which were previously paid for (like mine). So I ahd no clue they were going to expire.

So....on to customer support. Since my domains were not accessible, could not be transferred and were not manageable since they were not really in my account the next step is customer support (watch the video to learn how that goes).
Ticket after ticket I would get "No such account". WHAT! I ahve been with registerfly since like 2002 or 2003 or something how can there be no suck account?

Ok so then the phone calls. Typically a 30-45 minute wait. Finally get someone on the phone. "Sir, please contact enom they will probably be able to do more for you than I can". Yep that was what I was told.

Then there is the money I paid for renewals that were never renewed and deleted without notification. Oh my CC was charged and since the domains were parked and I never administered them I never needed to go into my account. I found out that they were deleted when I decided to use one of the domains for a site and poof 3 domains missing.

I dont know what you mean about other organizations having anything to do with this. The CEO was using the account which was supposed to be funding their renewals and purchases. No one else to blame but registerfly thanks to their CEO.

Those documents looked pretty legit to me. I would highly doubt someone spend the time to create fraudulent documents to put on their website. That would be pretty far fetched.

I don't know how important your names are to you but with the hordes of posts and horror stories floating around from people like myself who would have no reason to lie I suggest you follow the news reports and prepare to act fast when the time comes.

GL

 

[JMJ]

The key is eNom. Do you think they were eager to assist registerfly in moving all of their names away or do you think the tried everything in their power to combat it? Chronological events tells me that the crap hit the fan when they pulled from eNom. 1 year later more crap hits the fan and guess what? It involves eNom. Apparently the names that were lost as you and others have stated involved eNom. Is there more to this story we don't know?

615.biz was registered at registerfly via the old eNom system. Just last month I renewed the name 2 days after it expired via registerfly. It now resides at eNom. So during the time that all of these names supposedly weren't suppose to be able to be renewed I was able to do it.


Don't get me wrong I've had my issues with registerfly in the past. I'm not here to back up any of the parties involved if they did fold I would lose a lot of names because quite frankly I can't afford the couple of g's it would take to get them out. Basicly just doing a little volunteer firefighting since I'm in the middle of the nearly uncontrollable wildfire set by currently unidentified sources with unidentified materials.

We spent the better part of yesterday discussing the "rumors" only to find out it wasn't as bad as it's being made out to be today. I think what we have here is a partnership gone sour, a jilted ex (enom) throwing gas into the fire, a major lack of oversight by ICANN, and a lot of misinformed people. I haven't experienced all of the problems that everyone says they have experienced. I've been able to change DNS on names old and new. I've been able to pay for renewals. I've been able lock and unlock domains. It can't be just my account that is able to do all of these things. I just don't buy it.

 

[Rockefeller]

Thank you Rockefeller for digging that up! I have for a long-time scratched my head about what was going on. I believe my frustrations with them have taken a toll on my longevity. Excited to hear justice is perhaps right around the corner. Anyone interested in picking up some shares of this fine company?

Well, the current "CEO" has 100 shares and the CEO-on-the-run as the other 100..I dont think there are any shares to get. lol

 

[Nova]

Based on so many reports here at DNF, so many supposed customers, and other material that can be found online, do you think perhaps there has been credit card fraud in the hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars - per year?

Before discovering what so many here at DNF had experienced, I was also familiar with this site: http://www.stopunifiednames.com/. The domain dropped and was later reregged and the site republished.

 

[shopperx]

Registerfly.com is down at the moment...

 

[JuniperPark]

Could this be the end of the line for ICANN?

They now have a full blown 'domain emergency' on their hands. They fully allowed it to happen did nothing to protect consumers, and unless they spring into action IMMEDIATELY, certainly should find themselves on the losing end of any and all lawsuits.

Legit registrars should now REFUSE to pay ICANN fees, since they do absolutely nothing.

 

[acesfull]

Could this be the end of the line for ICANN?

It (finally) should be the end of the line for RegisterFly. From all I've seen, and personally experienced, I think prison time would be in order. I'd like to hear from one or two of the domain lawyers.

 

[David G]

Could this be the end of the line for ICANN?

They now have a full blown 'domain emergency' on their hands. They fully allowed it to happen did nothing to protect consumers, and unless they spring into action IMMEDIATELY, certainly should find themselves on the losing end of any and all lawsuits.

Legit registrars should now REFUSE to pay ICANN fees, since they do absolutely nothing.

ICANN already basically said they plan to do nothing about it. Post about it here:

Amazing so few domainers are posting there!

http://omblog.icann.org/?p=6