Leading domain registration company GoDaddy announced today that it has agreed to take over and manage more than 850,000 domain names belonging to customers of a troubled rival, RegisterFly. The deal, reached with the support of ICANN, will allow the owners of the domain names at the troubled company to once again renew their names, or transfer them elsewhere if they do not want to stay with GoDaddy. Those names had been in limbo following financial and operational troubles at RegisterFly.
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Today is June 1. I was under the belief that Registerfly, by the Courts, was supposed to put an announcement on their site. As of the time this comment is being posted, a visitor to the site is still not aware of the Registerfly situation and it seems that one can still purchase domains and host sites, etc.
Question regarding no service for payments: How can Registerfly or their agents be stopped from accepting payments for services they are not providing.
Thank you.
Does this mean that GoDaddy has cleaned up their spammers as well? I bet not, as an ex firewall administrator I would see a tremendous amount of bad things coming from GoDaddy net space ponted at mail servers and GoDaddy did not really sem to care as long as the cash was flowing in.
We shall see how this changes the way GoDaddy handles who they allow to register and how well they check out those wanting to register.
Some complaints have arisen from former RegisterFly customers (whose domains were transferred from RegisterFly.com to Go Daddy in the May 29, 2007 agreement with ICANN) that Go Daddy is refusing to allow transfers out to other registrars. Go Daddy is citing ICANN rules which they claim allow them to deny transfers within the first 60 days of a previous transfer. Customers contend that this rule only applies to Holder-Authorized Transfers and note that the transfer from RegisterFly was involuntary.