ICANN May Act Against RegisterFly 63
1sockchuck writes "ICANN says it will terminate RegisterFly's accreditation as a domain registrar if the company can't fix its problems within 15 days. The edict comes with RegisterFly in chaos and current management blaming a departed executive for its woes. The situation is complicated by the fact that RegisterFly sold some of its domains through a reseller agreement with eNom, and others using its own accreditation."
There is always one. (Score:1, Interesting)
Avoid the fate of this company and fire him early.
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I'm curious, however, what sort of involvement eNom had with the situation... My company was thinking of using them as a registrar (cuz Tucows sucks...) but if they're caught up in this debacle, i don't see it as being a good option...
Anyone know of a good registrar with a decent reseller API??
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+ 3 Days no response, lost tickets, answers they gave were wrong and unhelpful
+ They have 2 apps for their API, one is cookie-cut, the other is CSS + php (zend) driven, but lacks lots of functionality. It took our developers some time to get things to work in the test environment, and when we did they messed up our tld's among other missing options. Support was unhelpful in fixing this (and it never got fixed)
+ Taking 3
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Stand back good citizens, while I create useless top level domains!
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On
Im holding out for (Score:2)
Coincidence (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Coincidence (Score:5, Informative)
No, it's not.
They've been behind for a while and have made some pretty hfty payments and seem to be stalled over five grand.
From icann's letter:
III. Accreditation Fee Breaches
Under section 3.9 of the RAA, ICANN-accredited registrars are obligated to pay yearly and
variable fees to ICANN in a timely fashion. This portion of the notice of breach concerns
Registerflys obligations under section 3.9 of the RAA, under which Registerfly agreed to timely
pay its accreditation fees. Despite this agreement, Registerfly has a substantial outstanding
balance to ICANN that it has failed to pay.
On 10 October 2006, ICANN notified Registerfly that it had an outstanding balance of
$131,422.86 in fees immediately due to ICANN, of which $44,985.16 was over 90 days past
due. A month later, on 10 November 2006, ICANN had not received any response from
Registerfly. Mike Zupke called Glenn Stansbury to inquire as to why Registerfly was not paying
its invoices to ICANN. Mr. Stansbury reported that he was unaware of this issue. Kevin Medina
then called Mr. Zupke and claimed to be unaware of the issue but promised to wire $49,000
ICANN that week and another $44,000 at the beginning of the next week. During that
conversation, Mr. Zupke expressed to Mr. Medina that failure to pay ICANN invoices is a breach
of Registerflys RAA that, if unresolved, could result in proceedings to terminate Registerfly's
accreditation.
On 4 December 2006, ICANN received a wire transfer from Registerfly in the amount of
$70,000. ICANN received an additional $59,999 the next day. On both 11 December and 19
December 2006, ICANN requested from Mr. Stansbury and Mr. Medina payment of
Registerflys remaining balance. Mr. Medina promised that payment would be made on 22
December 2006. No payment was received. ICANN again requested payment of the
outstanding balance on 9 January 2007 and 2 February 2007. To date, $5,423.86 remains
outstanding, and is over 60 days past due.
Re:Coincidence (Score:5, Informative)
It's obviously not a coincidence - it does tell you that ICANN doesn't give a crap about anybody getting screwed as long as it's not them.
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Its why I use Netsol for eveything:P (Score:5, Interesting)
Bleh, I am not hip anymore.
Re:Its why I use Netsol for eveything:P (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Its why I use Netsol for eveything:P (Score:5, Funny)
Your wish is my karma whoring opportunity: http://www.nodaddy.com/ [nodaddy.com]
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Here are some of the links (Score:4, Informative)
GoDaddy Caves To Irish Legal Threat [slashdot.org]
GoDaddy Holds Domains Hostage [slashdot.org]
Some slashdotters talk about the Godaddy registering domains that were being browsed here [slashdot.org]
Dyndns.org (Score:3, Informative)
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Good ol' Network Solutions (Score:2)
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I have also had personal experience where Netsol allowed another entity to change the DNS servers for my domain (without permission), and then I had to wait until the next day before NetSol did their regular update. I got no reply to my complaint aobut that incident.
not entirely accurate reporting (Score:5, Informative)
Not that SSL is where their issues are anyway, but I thought that I'd mention it.
Re:not entirely accurate reporting (Score:5, Informative)
Not that SSL is where their issues are anyway, but I thought that I'd mention it.
Prior to Nov, they were a reseller of RapidSSL, and during the ordering process you were forwarded to RapidSSL.com to complete the transaction.
RegisterFly started selling even cheaper ($9.99/year) chained link, ala Comodo. They bought their own chained root cert and now "issue" ssl certs on their own.
What will happen to the domains (Score:1, Interesting)
Apologies to Don McLean (Score:4, Funny)
Took my addy to the webby,
but the webby was dry.
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singing, "it's so fun to make users cry"
yeah, it's fun to make our customers cry.
What DOES their name mean? (Score:2)
A combination of Shutterfly and National Cash Register?
A computer architecture with virtual registers?
A Department of Motor Vehicles for helicars?
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Sorry to say (Score:4, Interesting)
There is some skeptisism in the forums because people aren't seeing immediate results. Well fair enough. BUT.
There's something that bothers me a lot more though.
Assuming that RegisterFlies doesn't make all this stuff up, then the other officers (John & Glen) keep on making very strong allegations towards Kevin Medina. (e.g. from the official statement by the new CEO John: "Mr. Medina is a selfish, cold hearted, self loving, criminal.") Well, I don't know much about the legal system, but I would suspect that any lawyer would give you the strongest advice not to even mention the guy's name until all lawsuits have been settled. I mean this is just asking for counter libel/slander (whatever the proper word is) suits.
If you just put all your private assets into a company, why would you make it susceptible to that?
Next, if you read the forums, people have sustained extremely serious damage. Kevin Medina may have been causing all this, a court will have to decide, but it's very likely that some very hefty lawsuits will be filed against RegisterFly by their customers (and not Kevin Medina, their contract is with RF after all). Why would anyone invest all they have into a company that is set up for this sort of trouble?
If John and Glen are doing what is being reported on RegisterFlies, then all the power to them. I hope for them it works out, but I'm sorry to say that it's hard to see a positive future for RegisterFly.
Bad Weather at the top (Score:1)
Two things: (Score:2)
Second: I submitted two stories on this, with much greater detail, literally within minutes of the events taking place. This story is behind and incomplete.
Do NOT submit transactions to Registerfly now!! (Score:2)
Breaking news: Registerfly allegedly hacked by Mr. Medina:
http://registerflies.com/hacked-send-no-money.htm
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Take screenshots of your Account Control Panel for proof of domain ownership, and run whois on your domain. Kevin has been actively changing the WHOIS info on domains for several months now, but chances are slim he's hit yours.
Rumor has it he has been letting domains expire (I have two high-value domains which I renewed but are being allowed by RF to expire and I am totally unable to transfer them out) and then personally selling the domains to other registrars. So far th
CEASE ALL TRANSACTIONS WITH REGISTERFLY! (Score:3, Interesting)
CEASE ALL TRANSACTIONS WITH REGISTERFLY!
Written by Administrator
Friday, 23 February 2007
Site Hacked and Data Corrupted
Attention everyone. I just received confirmation that the Registerfly site has currently been hacked into and taken over by Kevin Medina in the Florida office. I was asked to put this up here due to the amount of customers that are sending money. At this moment, they are trying to get police in Florida to arrest Kevin immediately.
I'm relaying a message that they have asked me to put up on here. They have lost control of even the site and are locked out of the system. The data has been corrupted but they do have a back up and are scrambling to get this situation resolved.
Your support forms on this site will be held right now and forwarded when we know the proper management team has control of the data.
This is only what I've been told and this is currently the only medium of communication that the current management of Registerfly has. More updates soon.
Kevin's information posted on registerflies!! (Score:2)
KEVIN'S INFO - 2007/02/23 11:32 Kevin's Address:
450 Alton Road
Unit #4002
Miami Beach, FL 33139
Kevin's Bank:
Citibank, N.A. BR. #46
401 Arthur Godfrey Road
Miami Beach, FL 33140
Kevin's Landlord:
Jose Frias
90 ALTON RD #TH-11
MIAMI BEACH, FL 33139
josefrias@mac.com
01158212 234 7003 or cell 01158 416 8213853
Kevin's building:
The ICON: 305-695-6910
Board@iconsouthbeach.com
Kevin's Mother
Miriam Medina
1-732-679-7984
2D Linde
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Open letter to Ms. Medina:
cc also: slashdot.org readers
registerflies.com readers
Hello Miriam,
PLEASE talk to your son Mr. Medina and convince him to not hold domains hostage at RegisterFly.com
As you are probably aware, the business he founded with John is the lifeblood of the Internet, providing what is essentially street addresses in the electronic world.
He was doing a fantastic job unt
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her reply:
On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 20:08 -0500, Miriam Medina wrote:
This is harrassment for you to bother an old lady who is ill with diabetes.
> If you don't stop this harrassment I shall report you to the authorities. I
> am not connected to this company!
>
To which I responded:
I tried calling you only ONE time. That is NOT harassment. I merely
called in vain effort to contact Mr. Medina in good faith as I have paid
for domains and he has stolen my property and is doing nothing to
rest
Miriam responds again (Score:2)
Oh well. Phone records will show only one call was made.
From: Miriam Medina
To: Kimberly Lazarski
Subject: Re: Please read this
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 20:46:45 -0500
This is harrassment since you admitted calling me. Leave me alone.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kimberly Lazarski"
To: "Miriam Medina"
Sent: Friday, February 23, 2007 8:35 PM
Subj
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That information is largely public information available through phone books and similar media. I tried in vain to get through to Kevin all week, and came across that info posted elsewhere, so I did a copy and paste of that information (verbatim, byte for byte) and posted it here to help the thousands of other RegisterFly customers who are otherwise left powerless over their web presence(s).
Aside from that:
Based on what has gone on publicly, based on the fact that it is John and Glenn who met with ICAN
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With that said, I think the parent here stepped over the line in posting the personal info with "Boyfriend" and "Prostitute" attached. You may very well be looking at a Libel suit yourself here.
It is also, never appropriate to be posting people's Mother's email accounts, phone numbers, and address to a public forum, no matter what dispute you may have with a pers
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You have also posted potentially Libelous accusations to a public forum against Neil and James. With the implication of their sexual preferences which may fall under Federal Hate crime laws. It seems to me that (again IANAL) that you have done this
Kevin responds (Score:2)
Search for "kevinm" which appears to be kevin, and the logged IP traceroutes to southern Florida