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ICANN Accredited RegisterFly Implodes

By Enrico Schaefer

If you are a victim of the Registerfly meltdown and your domain names are currently at risk, you should contact one of our domain name lawyers by emailing us here. Or you can retain Traverse Legal now by clicking here.  We can assist you in obtaining control of your domain names.

Internet consumers are in an uproar over what appears to be an ICANN accredited registrar named RegisterFly which is heading for self-destruction.  The domain tools blog has posted about the serious problems facing RegisterFly here. 

There is concern from people who have used ?private? registration may not be able to retrieve their domain names if RegisterFly goes down.  Typically, you must show identification such as driver?s license with your photo in order to retrieve your domain name as a registrant if, for instances, you lose your password.  If something should happen to RegisterFly, the fact that your registration is private won?t allow you to easily prove that you are the domain owner.  On Monday, RegisterFly?s website went dark for most of the day as CEO, Kevin Medina, changed the root password and locked everyone out.  Vice President, John Naruscewicz, had been feuding and there is already been litigation between the two. 

ICANN states it does not have any power to manage the situation, except to pull the accreditation of RegisterFly completely.  ICANN has reported that 70% of the complaints they have received in the last two weeks concerned RegisterFly.  If RegisterFly loses its accreditation, they will lose their customers and ICANN is expected to make an announcement about this later in the week.

Here are some more links to information concerning the RegisterFly debacle:

If you?ve been bitten by the RegisterFly bug, there is a gripe site which has become the source of information about longstanding registerfly problems found at Registerflies.com

• Brawling RegisterFly partners in fight to the death, Malaysia Sun, February 24, 2007.

• RegisterFly faces losing ICANN accreditation. See it here.

• ICANN may act against RegisterFly; Slashdot, February 23, 2007.

• RegisterFly.com in big trouble, read about it here.

If you are a victim of the Registerfly meltdown and your domain names are currently at risk, you should contact one of our domain name lawyers by emailing us here. Or you can retain Traverse Legal now by clicking here.  We can assist you in obtaining control of your domain names. 

Full post as published by AntiCybersquatting Consumer Protection Act Blog on March 02, 2007 (boomark / email).