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   Kudos to Dreamhost for doing this.

   Comment by TB — March 19, 2007 #

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   this seems better than the deal godaddy’s offering for registerfly people. kinda wish i was hosted with dreamhost now.

   Comment by jamie martin — March 19, 2007 #

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   RegisterFly is one big mess right now. Customers are being abandoned without their domains, and they can’t transfer it or renew it!

   Figures out why recently there have been quite a few domains that are conspicuously missing these months.

   Comment by pkchukiss — March 19, 2007 #

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   And to think, I used to be with those guys. Good thing I decided to move away from them about 7+ months ago. While I have hosting here, I don’t have my domain here because of some thing I have in my mind. That, and my domain was set to expire in like ‘08 because of that transfer as a result. :P

   Now someone else I know has their domain registered with another webhosting company, and because of their lack of support, the domain can’t be transferred over here (though it was a miracle that they at least change the nameservers!)

   Comment by MiquelFire — March 19, 2007 #

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   [...] is much more generous. They are currently running a promotion for RegisterFly refugees, as posted on their blog, that if (1) your domain is currently registered with RegisterFly (2) you are a new customer to [...]

   Pingback by Signing Up RegisterFly's Ex-Customers | HostingFu — March 20, 2007 #

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   Hi guys!

   I’ve got a lot (all) of accounts there…….
   What should I do……..?

   Nick

   Comment by nick — March 20, 2007 #

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   Hi Nick, just sign up for a level 1 plan using one of your registraton names and the “FLYAWAY” promo code once your account s setuup you can make transfer request for the rest of your names.

   Comment by Javier — March 20, 2007 #

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   SHENANIGANS!

   I just love that word.

   Glad I’m not hosted over there though, that really sucks. Not that I have any thousand dollar domain names or anything mind you…

   Comment by ttancm — March 20, 2007 #

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   [...] Updated: More in DreamHost’s Blog. [...]

   Pingback by Unofficial DreamHost Blog » Blog Archive » Free DreamHost Hosting Plan for RegisterFly Refugees — March 20, 2007 #

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    Javier,

    Will the rest of the transferred domains be free as well?

    Cheers,
    Ric

    Comment by Ric — March 21, 2007 #

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    hi, I would like to transfer my domains to “dreamhost” also, unfortunely the domain I registered still less than 60 days, so what should I do?

    Comment by Michael — March 21, 2007 #

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    [...] over to the Dreamhost blog for more [...]

    Pingback by Dreamhost offers free hosting to RegisterFly customers at Pinoy Money Talk - Make Money Online and Offline — March 21, 2007 #

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    My domain is registered at RF but when I try to sign up at DH and use the “FLYAWAY” promo code, I’m getting an error: “Promo code only valid for RegisterFly refugees!”. What’s the problem?

    Comment by TechJunction — March 22, 2007 #

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    Disastro Registerfly.com…

    Ebbene si, eccomi qui. Anch’io ho qualche dominio registrato su Registerfly.com. Secondo quanto riportato in giro, uno dei soci, tale Kevin Medina, si è dato alla pazza gioia con i soldi della società.
    Quindi servizi escort, conti della carta …

    Trackback by Gianluca Pezzi Web Log — March 23, 2007 #

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    registerfly.com una empresa con más de 2millones de dominios activos y 8cientos mil usuarios ha bloqueado sus dominios porque teme represalias de la ICANN ya que no cumple con los requisitos básicos de éstos

    Comentario aqui : http://www.favshare.com/foro/discussion/47/fraude-en-registerflycom/

    Comment by Aitor — March 23, 2007 #

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    I just wish you had told that before I transfered to Namecheap.com ¬¬’

    Comment by Rafael — March 24, 2007 #

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    Hi,

    I can not imagine if my registrar is having the same problem. It makes me think not to register too many domain with one registrar in case the same thing happens.

    I am glad the Dreamhost is offering generous deal to rescue registerfly customer.

    regards
    Casey

    Comment by PHPLDTemplates.com — March 30, 2007 #

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    That hardly seems fair to the rest of us. Yeah, yeah, I know I shouldn’t gripe, etc… but to be honest, I’d be more than willing to move my domains from GoDaddy to DreamHost for free time, or plan upgrades or bonuses. *shrug* And no, I’m not so naive as to think DH would offer a year per domain switched for non RF holders. *shrug* but, say, five, or eight, or ten domains for a year?

    (yeah, I know, I’m lame.. but you try being in such financial disrepair that you’re worrying about how you’re going to be able to pay your hosting bill, due in June, in March. *shrug*)

    Comment by Eric — March 30, 2007 #

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    [...] 1、Register Flight 2、 Registerfly’s Accreditation Terminated by ICANN [...]

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    I have a problem. I have hosting with DH, but I have my domain with RegisterFly. What do I do? Since I am not a new customer, but I am still a RegisterFlyRefugee! :(

    Comment by Ravi Chhabra — March 31, 2007 #

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    I’m in the same boat as Ravi there. I already have a DreamHost account with multiple domains in it. I have been able to salvage two of my domain names from Registerfly, but I still have about seventeen others with them that I cannot afford to transfer out.

    It seems like it would be cheaper for DreamHost and still helpful to the users if they still gave free Regfly transfers to already existing members to put on their existing accounts.

    No offense, but allowing only new customers to use the FLYAWAY promo seems more like a future investment for DreamHost rather than a knight in shining armor coming to save the RegFly customers. Why save some and leave the others to rot, especially when they’ve already invested time and money into DreamHost?

    Comment by cho0b — March 31, 2007 #

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    Why not just remove DH’s hosting briefly, and then use the flyaway promo?

    Comment by Robb — March 31, 2007 #

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    One DH support membered said this to me:

    “Keep in mind that the FLYAWAY promotion is for new customers only and only offers 1 free registration transfer, if you sign up for additional accounts using the FLYAWAY promo code, your account(s) will most likely be suspended.”

    :\

    Comment by cho0b — March 31, 2007 #

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    I am already hosted by DH and love their service…I am not a computer expert but felt like a pro with their help setting up my hosting.

    The problem I have is I have paid for 2 hosting packages with regfly and my domain name renewal and the bastard took my money… I just wish someone would post their address… so I could go collect my money back from them.

    If you are thinking of switching to DH I can tell you stop thinking and switch today!

    Comment by James Gjesing — April 1, 2007 #

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    What is the procedure to get the “Authentication Code” from the RegisterFly.com?

    I have many domains stuck there and my transfer requests to DH are failing due to “incorrect auth code”.

    Now when the support is non-existent on RegisterFLy.com and no web links on their website to obtain an auth code, how does one go about obtaining it? Thanks in advance..

    Comment by Pawan — April 1, 2007 #

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    Thought this might be useful for an existing Registerfly.com user to obtain the Authorization code for their domains. There is a working link on registerfly.com website which details the steps to obtain the authorization code: https://registerfly.com/kb/?mode=detail&detailid=452213&id=2000&articleid=452212

    Comment by Pawan — April 1, 2007 #

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    As of today they are still claiming to be an ICANN-accredited registrar. See this page:
    http://www.registerfly.com/info/about.php

    Comment by Marc Hill — April 2, 2007 #

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    [...] 1、Register Flight 2、 Registerfly’s Accreditation Terminated by ICANN [...]

    Pingback by 《槽边往事》---比特海日志 » Blog Archive » 好消息总是太晚：一只苍蝇之死 — April 3, 2007 #

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    [...] También comentan el caso RegisterFly. A quien tuviera dominios registrados con esta empresa, DreamHost les ofrece un año gratis de registro y alojamiento. [...]

    Pingback by Blog no oficial de DreamHost » Archivo » Newsletter de marzo — April 16, 2007 #

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    I just wanted to let you folks know that here’s a site that has been monitoring the RegisterFly debacle, http://www.registerflies.com and they are reporting ICANN is about to announce some sort of agreement to allow folks who lost access to their domains to be able to access them again and move them away to responsible registrars.

    In the end, this goes to show that ICANN has been a paper tiger for all too long, but I hope this serves as a gigantic wake-up call for the industry to get its act together.

    Here’s another article on the subject that I wrote on my DreamHosted site the other day:

    http://www.macnightowl.com/2007/05/16/what-if-your-internet-domain-was-hijacked/

    Peace,
    Gene

    Comment by Gene Steinberg — May 19, 2007 #

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