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RegisterFly Web Site Down ... Again

RegisterFly's web site was offline for much of the day, as documented by Netcraft, with posts at RegisterFlies attributing the downtime to a transfer of the registerfly.com domain to give the new CEO better control over the site. Meanwhile, ICANN has asked a California court to force RegisterFly to turn over its database of domain data and compel an emergency audit of its books and records. ICANN has also reached out to central domain registries to protect domain owners. "Last Friday, ICANN convened a telephone conference among those needed to implement a plan that will help cease unintended deletions," ICANN said on its blog. "This will prevent names from being deleted from the registry and becoming available for re-registration by others." While it has taken steps to prevent domain deletions, ICANN acknowledged that "the options for customers to transfer their names to another registrar at this stage are limited." Additional covergae can be found at Daily Domainer and Frank Schilling.

  Posted by RichM March 6, 2007 | Permalink | Newsletter