Public participation site

It would appear after chatting with Glenn Stansbury that about 100,000 useful domains are remaining at risk. One issue here is that many domain owners are not the Administrators of thier own domain name, some part-time webmaster started thier site, and then it grew from there. This creates an issue where website owners are actually disconnected from the process that registered thier website name, and in some cases, dont even recognize the difference between Name Registration and Hosting. They have no clue what "WHOIS" is about.

If 15 days remain ( or March 31st? ) then transfer cycle-time is short. Some need for an Awareness program / Damage-control PR is needed here.

Typically the process consumes several days: "Your previous domain name company should release whatever.com to us within five business days. We will notify you as soon as the transfer is complete."

This cycle means that those wishing to avoid subsequent domain management chaos should be informed right now.

The people with names in a Registrar with a Revoked Accreditation should be notified, at least in some way and by some attempt, perhaps email? Registerfly.com shows no evidence of a problem. People not seeking to look for this problem -- will not find it.

Something of an extreme viral PSA hopefully will help people that dont realize they are a passenger at the back of a train-wreck in progress.

VIDEO posted on a few sites, may help wake up a few folks, but most sites that show this are already preaching to the chior. "Joe Sixpack" and your typical Mom and Pop Shops have no clue.

This is getting worse. Domain owners are forced to pay the transfer fees because of the loss of accredidation. I think those fees should be waved and also registerfly and the person they were acting as reseller for should pay fees to transfer the domains to whoever we want plus compensation for lost business or domains. Those who lost domains because of a thief due to registerfly's doing should get those domains back and the guy who is being extorted 95 bucks to get it back should get the domain back plus the guy telling him to pay up should be punished

I had no idea that RF was having issues, until Sat Mar 17,07 when I popped over to ICANNs site to see what recourse I have for that domain stealer that stole one of my domains due to RF failing to do anything about it.

I dont care that this person is trying to extort me, knowing they are out of the US means the US will probably not do anything about it, nor would a US based lawyer (if I could even afford it).

I just want my stolen domain returned to me, I want RF to either shape out or release our stuff to another registar withour charging us, the unknowing/unwilling partipicants caught in the crossfire.
I dont care if they go to ENOM, GoDaddy, or another other reputable registar, just as long as they are willing to take on the contracts we paid for & not steal/ try to take our domain ownerships away.

I was able to get 69 of 73 domains info updated, then moved 13 of my .US domains to ENOM & need to speak to them about 3 more they registered when working with RF.
The 4 I cant update I have proof of my ownership & the 3 .COMs that are in limbo I'm gonna have to register somewhere else before I lose them too I guess.

I have spoken to 3 others I referred to RegisterFly on good faith last yr, they had no idea this was happening so it seems a lot of us had no inkling anything was wrong & I'm sure many more are in the dark too.

Diane
whos not a guy but is the one being extorted by a non US person over a domain I owned until RegisterFly screwed up/me over.

I'm so sorry about your plight Diane, but unfortunately, it is the same as mine. I made a couple warning videos to try and get the word out, with marginal success short of Bob Parsons noticing it.

... now is unfortunately too late for immediate action.
Thousands of well regarded websites are now linkfarms.

The unofficial gripe site is www.registerflies.com and somehow they may be able to assist also.

Since www.registerfly.com still has not changed its site to make visitors aware of the impending revocation, we are all feeling betrayed by the trust we had in the system.

Have low expectations and they will be met... but
keep an eye on www.registerflies.com it may have a Failed Site List tool built soon, that can create a useful list of domains and current contacts harmed by all this, and target at least some repairable situations.