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RegisterFly Site Goes Offline -- UPDATE

Via Netcraft.

The web site for troubled domain registrar RegisterFly went offline early Tuesday and remains unavailable. The downtime follows weeks of problems with the registerfly.com site, with domain name owners saying they have been unable to manage or transfer their domains. Amid growing concern about the status of domains at RegisterFly, 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."

More here.

UPDATE: 7 March 2007 21:09 PST: The ICANN Blog says that RegisterFly is back up today. However, if you read the long list of comments, it is very sketchy right now.

posted by Fergie @ 3/06/2007 02:25:00 PM