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RegisterFly Think We’re Dumb

January 4, 2008 by Michele Neylon

RegisterFly

Remember those little darlings from RegisterFly? They upset a hell of a lot of people last year and are the cause of much nervousness chez ICANN as a result.

Well it seems they haven’t gone out of business just yet and are even emailing their customers to sell them more of their “wonderful” services.

They’ve even added a “clarification” on their site to help those of us who might be confused by the whole affair.

Some of the statement is factual, but other parts made me giggle:

We did a bulk transfer of names that were under our accreditation to another registrar, hence we do not function as an ICANN accredited registrar. After the conclusion of the bulk transfer there was no need for us to remain an accredited registrar since the benefits did not merit the cost and effort required

That’s incredibly misleading. Registerfly didn’t choose to lose its accreditation. It lost it for a number of very public reasons. Have a quick search on the ICANN blog, for example

The key phrase is buried in the last sentence:

With new management in place, we are eager to earn your business.

So, if I’m interpreting this correctly, RegisterFly changed their management around and are hoping to reinvent themselves. Surely being honest about what happened would be a good starting point?

Filed Under: icann, registerfly, registrars Tagged With: marketing, register fly, registerfly

About Michele Neylon

Michele is founder and managing director of Irish domain registrar and hosting company Blacknight. Michele has been deeply involved in domain and internet policy discussions for more than a decade.
He also co-hosts the Technology.ie podcast.

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  1. Francesco Cetraro says

    January 7, 2008 at 2:17 pm

    Actually according to the terms of the RAA when you do a bulk transfer you automatically loose the ICANN Accreditation too (basically you cannot give away all your domains and stay accredited), so even the bit about them “giving up their accreditation voluntarily” is a big piece of BS 😀

  2. Michele Neylon says

    January 7, 2008 at 2:25 pm

    Francesco

    I think they’re playing with reality 🙂

    Michele

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