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ICANN May Act Against RegisterFly
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on Fri Feb 23, 2007 11:03 AM
from the hold-it-together- dept.
from the hold-it-together- dept.
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."
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There is always one. (Score:1, Interesting)
Avoid the fate of this company and fire him early.
Coincidence (Score:5, Interesting)
(http://shock-horror.com/)
Re:Coincidence (Score:5, Informative)
(http://www.open-rsc.org/)
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)
(http://shock-horror.com/)
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.
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)
(Last Journal: Thursday February 09 2006, @01:35PM)
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]
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]
not entirely accurate reporting (Score:5, Informative)
(http://www.macphersonclan.com/rod)
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)
(http://www.kabewm.com/)
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.
What DOES their name mean? (Score:2)
(http://www.dpbsmith.com/)
A combination of Shutterfly and National Cash Register?
A computer architecture with virtual registers?
A Department of Motor Vehicles for helicars?
Sorry to say (Score:4, Interesting)
(http://slashdot.org/~slashdot.org/journal/ | Last Journal: Friday August 27 2004, @07:32PM)
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)
(http://kim.biyn.com/)
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.
CEASE ALL TRANSACTIONS WITH REGISTERFLY! (Score:3, Interesting)
(http://kim.biyn.com/)
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)
(http://kim.biyn.com/)
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 Linden Court
Old Bridge, NJ 08857
miriammedina@earthlink.net
Kevin's 18 year old BOYfriend:
Neil Frias
239-878-4059
http://www.myspace.com/petthemonkey [myspace.com]
Neil's Mother: dearmasr@aol.com
James Max Miller (Prostitute):
jmaxmiller@gmail.com
http://www.myspace.com/jmaxmiller [myspace.com]
917-763-2893 (from cell phone records)
Judge Peter Sheridan Civil Action No: 07-703 (Will not issue a restraining order to block Kevin Medina until March 9th)
Kevin's Supposed Lawyer:
52 Upper Montclair Plaza (Upper Montclair)
Montclair, New Jersey 07043
Telephone: 973-744-4000
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Kevin responds (Score:2)
(http://kim.biyn.com/)
Search for "kevinm" which appears to be kevin, and the logged IP traceroutes to southern Florida
Re:Icann I can not. (Score:1, Funny)
Stand back good citizens, while I create useless top level domains!
Re:Warning (Score:2)
(http://kim.biyn.com/)
Re:Warning (Score:1)