I have a domain trapped at RegisterFly.com. In case you didn't know, RegisterFly didn't pay the fees for the underlying registries (and did all sort of other nasty things, apparently) and ICANN withdrew their accreditation as a registrar (they are now in arbitration). It seems that they have had trouble for quite a while. Of course, I didn't know that, so paid them to renew my domain, which failed (but they took the money). I opened a support ticket, I tried to call them -- at one point I got through to an automated system, but after pressing just two keys it went into a loop, playing the same two messages over and over again ("we are very busy, wait times may be longer than usual" in a male voice, and "you are being transferred, please wait" in a female voice, or something like that) -- then a colleague passed by and looked at my screen (I had the RegisterFly page open in the browser) and said "aren't those the guys who had those problems a while back?". So I used my trusty million-blade swiss army knife (by which I mean Google, of course) and I found out about the problem. There was nothing I could do but wait. The bastards actually let my domain expire! Which was good, because when I tried to renew it again, it worked, and I got rid of their dreaded "domain protection" (a.k.a. ProtectFly), so I could at least attempt to transfer it. I'm still waiting on that, fingers crossed. That's why I didn't post anything yesterday -- do you have any idea how hard it is to type with your fingers crossed?
When I get my domain back, I shall build my website, and the world shall gaze upon it in awe. Seriously!
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A nightmare! The whole thing. I wanted to point you to an idea that one of the friends of AboutUs.org started. Your addition might help it get this effort kicking!
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Best, Mark
Thanks for the pointer. My domain is back to normal now, and I'm waiting to see whether the transfer to GoDaddy will go through. I'm not touching the DNS records until that happens, so the domain still points to my old (and now empty) hosting account at Lypha.com (another support nightmare).
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