Asta la Vista Registerfly
Back in July of 2006 I made a blog post about just how horrible Registerfly was. Yesterday ICANN announced Registerfly.com’s accredidation has been terminated, effective March 31st.
The story isn’t over yet, now ICANN has to figure out how to make sure the domains return to their rightful owners. Not an easy task when you are dealing with a company run by an alleged con artist and embezzler. I expect in a year or so this will make for a nice 10-page story in Wired magazine..
My big beef with registerfly was it was so hard to contact domain owners for link exchanges if they were registered via registerfly.
Comment by Website copywriter — March 19, 2007 @ 3:49 am
[…] Consider this: Registerfly sucked for years. Their user interface was buggy. Domain names users renewed didn’t review. Their customer service was all but useless in the 12 months proceeding their execution by ICANN. Registerfly was a reseller for eNom. eNom was purchased by Demand Media. One of the domains I lost in the Registerfly mess is currently sitting on a parked PPC page with registrant data resolving to eNom. That was a single domain. Now imagine this on a very large scale. […]
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