RegisterFly Troubles and Whois Privacy
Posted on February 23rd, 2007
If you are a customer of RegisterFly then you may already know that there is trouble in the air. The DomainTools Blog posted these details several days ago:
“Reports are flying in about RegisterFly’s implosion. Registerfly’s web site went dark for most of the Monday after the CEO Kevin Medina changed the root password and locked everyone out. It started earlier in the month, on February 12th, vice president John Naruszewicz threw the first major punch by suing the CEO with a claim of misappropriation of corporate funds. The CEO and the Vice-President both own 50% of the company so they are in a dead-lock right now. It seems Mr. Naruszewicz has taken higher ground by sending Mr. Medina a letter of termination.”
This is not good news if you were a customer of RegisterFly. Today it was announced that RegisterFly may loose there accreditation from ICCAN. How does this effect you if you are a customer of RegisteFly? You can transfer your domain to any other registrar if you can provide proof of who you are which can be cross referranced with your whois details.
So what happens to those that use Whois Privacy or false information? You may be out of your domain if that is the case. If RegisterFly goes out of business then there is no one to prove you are the actual owner of the domain. If you use whois protection I would recommend reconsidering it. If you are worried about spam then set it to a free email account and check it once a month. If your business depends on your domain to be up then the small amount of spam you get may be worth it then loosing your domain.
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Well, their site’s back up, maybe the issues have been resolved?
As for Whois Protection, I think it’s a good idea, because then people don’t know your address… But, I think they should include some details about you for the Whois Protection. Maybe something like:
“Whois Protection Companies Name
Domain Owners Name
Whois Protection Companies Address
Whois Protected Forwarding to Domain Owners Email
Domain Owners Phone Number”
Something like that maybe… Or maybe other small details about the Domain Owner, like first 2 digits of house number or postal/zip code, or something. Enough information so that you’d be able to verify it was you. Customers should also keep (and print out) their invoices for domains and hosting. With my old host, I almost lost one of my domains because I had registered it through them and they put their (I actually think only 1 person worked their, but w/e) information for the Whois of that domain. Which I thought was more to protect my information… But, the company became “static” and I got no answers to any support tickets, so I decided to switch. But, they didn’t let me manage my domain, so I had to contact the company who they went through to register the domains, and my Invoice for that domain was what got me my domain into my control. So, long story short, keep your Invoices.
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