Comments on: A warning about the registrar 'RegisterFly' http://www.bybjorn.com/64/ bybjorn.com >> Bjørn Børresen - freelance web developer Tue, 29 Nov 2011 08:47:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: James M. http://www.bybjorn.com/64/comment-page-1/#comment-125 James M. Wed, 27 Dec 2006 23:36:00 +0000 http://bie.no/blog/metabjorn/2006/12/a-warning-about-the-registrar-registerfly/#comment-125 <p>RegisterFly is the WORST registrar out there! I can't believe that ICANN would accredit them. I don't think they are frauds. I just think they are in WAY over their heads. I picture a couple of geeks in a garage raking in the bucks as their cheap Russian customer support vendor screws up all their accounts. Avoid RegisterFly at all costs!!!!!</p> RegisterFly is the WORST registrar out there! I can’t believe that ICANN would accredit them. I don’t think they are frauds. I just think they are in WAY over their heads. I picture a couple of geeks in a garage raking in the bucks as their cheap Russian customer support vendor screws up all their accounts. Avoid RegisterFly at all costs!!!!!

]]> By: anon http://www.bybjorn.com/64/comment-page-1/#comment-124 anon Sat, 23 Dec 2006 22:48:09 +0000 http://bie.no/blog/metabjorn/2006/12/a-warning-about-the-registrar-registerfly/#comment-124 <p>I had a similar experience. They have billed me wrongfully 5 times. The first 4 were reversed and I am still waiting on number 5. And you are right, their cpanel is apparently just a form with values passed into the ether. Buggy does not even cover it imo. Got all my domains out except one that was about to expire and thus not eligible to transfer. Looks like it's now renewed, only took a couple of months, and on it's way out the door. Thankfully. I chose Dynadot as my new registrar. Tempted to put all in one pot with the .no domains at Domeneshop, but they are simply a reseller of other TLDs, so why pay double, eh? Good luck. Life is too short for Registerfly(TM).</p> I had a similar experience. They have billed me wrongfully 5 times. The first 4 were reversed and I am still waiting on number 5. And you are right, their cpanel is apparently just a form with values passed into the ether. Buggy does not even cover it imo. Got all my domains out except one that was about to expire and thus not eligible to transfer. Looks like it’s now renewed, only took a couple of months, and on it’s way out the door. Thankfully. I chose Dynadot as my new registrar. Tempted to put all in one pot with the .no domains at Domeneshop, but they are simply a reseller of other TLDs, so why pay double, eh? Good luck. Life is too short for Registerfly(TM).

]]> By: Bjørge http://www.bybjorn.com/64/comment-page-1/#comment-123 Bjørge Fri, 22 Dec 2006 13:12:35 +0000 http://bie.no/blog/metabjorn/2006/12/a-warning-about-the-registrar-registerfly/#comment-123 <p>I use domeneshop.no for all my domains (but one - which uses godaddy), and I am very satified. They are a bit more expensive but you get so much in the package that I think it is well worth the extra. For instance, free dns (even primary, but I use my own and theirs as secondary), free backup mail server (set MX with higher/lower priority in DNS) that keeps you mail if your mailserver goes down, and then delivers them when it's back up + more.</p> I use domeneshop.no for all my domains (but one – which uses godaddy), and I am very satified. They are a bit more expensive but you get so much in the package that I think it is well worth the extra. For instance, free dns (even primary, but I use my own and theirs as secondary), free backup mail server (set MX with higher/lower priority in DNS) that keeps you mail if your mailserver goes down, and then delivers them when it’s back up + more.

]]> By: SJR http://www.bybjorn.com/64/comment-page-1/#comment-122 SJR Thu, 21 Dec 2006 01:15:03 +0000 http://bie.no/blog/metabjorn/2006/12/a-warning-about-the-registrar-registerfly/#comment-122 <p>I just lost my posting....Argh...Suffice it to say that you probably ought to check your contact information for each of your domains. For example, I checked the whois information for 43min.com, it shows the registerfly fraud unit (fraud@registerfly.com) as your Administrative and Technical contact. Not a cause of alarm if you can still get to the domains with your control panel. But updating the contact information will become important when it comes time to transfer your domains, as the process will typically involve sending confirming emails (typically to the person listed as the Admin).</p> <p>BTW, it looks like you should be able to transfer 43min.com now over to the registrar of your choice. You don't have to wait until it is near expiration to do so...I think the only caveat to that is that if you recently renewed or transfer a domain, there might be a 60-day hold. --SJR</p> I just lost my posting….Argh…Suffice it to say that you probably ought to check your contact information for each of your domains. For example, I checked the whois information for 43min.com, it shows the registerfly fraud unit (fraud@registerfly.com) as your Administrative and Technical contact. Not a cause of alarm if you can still get to the domains with your control panel. But updating the contact information will become important when it comes time to transfer your domains, as the process will typically involve sending confirming emails (typically to the person listed as the Admin).

BTW, it looks like you should be able to transfer 43min.com now over to the registrar of your choice. You don’t have to wait until it is near expiration to do so…I think the only caveat to that is that if you recently renewed or transfer a domain, there might be a 60-day hold. –SJR

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