Congrats to Icann for whatever part (which i am sure was considerable) they have played in this successfull outcome …

Interestingly enough a very large and infuential web site Americanthinker.com was able to recover it’s domain name from Registerfly:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/04/recovering_our_web_address.html

I also take note that this blog has not been updated since May 16 the day after Kieran McCarthy stated above that he would have some news re the transfer of Registerfly names to another registrar:

*Comment by Kieren McCarthy
2007-05-14 14:34:18
Hi Diane,

I hope to be able to give a proper update tomorrow. Sorry I can’t do so today.

Kieren McCarthy
General manager of public participation, ICANN *

Any News would be appreciated please Kieran.

I understand someone who own a couple of domains and didn’t realize what was going on at RF, but when hearing people saying having dozens and perhaps hundreds of domains stuck at RF , hijacked, unable to move them out by now , I’m astonished!!

WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN ?

This saga unfolded for a year and took a high steem the last 3-4 months, so, if you had so many domains at RF, how the heck you didn’t Think to move them out FAST ?

A lot was said at forums about what was happening at RF and at list one website, REGISTERFLIES made a great effort to Warning RF customers.

I saw the warnings, and I took immediate action , so I managed to move out of RF all my remaining 50 domains just in time before unlock codes and data were wiped out.

However, I went also through rough times till this was accomplished.

I want to NOTE a few more things, critics and credits

ENOM took full advantage of RF victims including myself, ripping us off even further by charging 30 dollars renewal fees on domains that were already paid renewal fees to Registerfly.

I had to pay $120 to ENOM to rescue 4 domains kept hostage by them in complicity with REGISTERFLY

Perhaps ENOM may have reversed that policy now( after realizing the class lawsuits that will fall on them) but few months ago, they made sure to get as much cash as they could out of RF crisis.
ENOM helped RF to keep our domains hostages.

ICANN was well warned, notified, informed of Registerfly unlawful methods, long ago, since over a year at list and did nothing till recently. Tons of Complains were sent to ICANN .

Now ICANN is very active trying to solve the problem , GREAT , finally, ( perhaps to reduce liability) but, WHY not a year ago ?
As somebody said before, too little and too late!!!! people have lost millions!!

Finally, there is someone who I will really want to credit , these are the guys behind REGISTERFLIES.com website.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH Registerflies for your support and updates, you are the ones who have really helped save my domains and hundreds of others..

“OK Great ! NOW ICANN Why havent you Acted? Where is the Law? CAN ANYONE TELL ME WHY THE REGISTERFLY SITE IS STILL IN OPERATION????????????”

Uh, I guess ICANN’s not securing a court order and serving it on Registerfly isn’t acting? The law’s there, it’s a matter of how soon it’s implemented.

ICANN is focused on trying to obtain the domain registration data and cutting off Registerfly’s registrar accreditation. Beyond that and some people are possibly expecting too much from them.

Mike G, not sure what you’re referring to, but that sounds like the 45-day period where a registrar is “ideally” allowed to hold on to an expired domain name before having it deleted (except for extenuating circumstances like locking it due to bankruptcy). In theory, Registerfly will delete the expired domain name within up to 45 days after expiration, but that’s if they don’t do something to it first while it’s still in their database.

For those already deleted, ICANN requested the involved Registries to suspend their cycles until this is sorted out.