RegisterFly, er RegFly at it again

February 22, 2008 1:29 PM

ICANN accreditation yanked, RegisterFly rebrands and tries again.Though partner Robert O'Niell claims otherwise, it looks like former CEO Kevin Medina is still in the picture. Without accreditation and their former registrar partner, eNom, RegisterFly, uh I mean RegFly has partnered with leading wholesale registrar Tucows to start selling domain names again. RegisterFlies.com comes out of retirement. Previously.
posted by FlamingBore (14 comments total)

This axe blade of yours looks dull. Needs more grinding.
posted by mumkin at 2:21 PM on February 22, 2008

Ehh, I don't blame him. I was not one of them, but these guys screwed ALOT of people and businesses - stranding them with locked domains that could not be transfered. Money was lost, emails were black-holed, etc. Here's hoping this one is blacklisted before they get a chance to hurt anyone else.
posted by datacenter refugee at 2:24 PM on February 22, 2008

Yeah, they screwed me. Jerk offs. Here's wishing them a long, slow, ignominious business death by lack of customers.
posted by dammitjim at 2:49 PM on February 22, 2008

Sure, I'll give these netsharks my money and time again; let me get my shovel...
posted by ronin21 at 4:18 PM on February 22, 2008

Fly, customers.
posted by flabdablet at 4:32 PM on February 22, 2008

thank you for the heads up.
posted by dozo at 4:43 PM on February 22, 2008

$ curl regfly.com 2>/dev/null|wc -c
24400
$ curl --referer metafilter.com regfly.com 2>/dev/null|wc -c
1
posted by finite at 5:34 PM on February 22, 2008 [4 favorites has favorites]

In case people can't read unix shell script, what finite is saying is that clicking the regfly.com link from here gives you an empty page, while entering it manually gives you the correct homepage.

Is that some sort of metafilter-blocking thing? weird.
posted by JZig at 5:39 PM on February 22, 2008 [1 favorite has favorites]

These guys screwed with my domains, too. Screw 'em.

When there are dozens of cheap domain registration options, why would anyone ever go with a company with such a horrible record? Please.
posted by chasing at 6:06 PM on February 22, 2008

Playing around with finite's script some, (I don't understand shell redirectors at all, what the heck is >2 doing, sending some of the output to /dev/null?), it appears that it's blocking all external referrers, including Yahoo! and Google, but not itself...

Perhaps their website isn't 'live' yet?
posted by onalark at 7:02 PM on February 22, 2008

I too was caused a lot of headaches and wasted time by Kevin Medina. He should not be allowed anywhere near the Internet.
posted by tomorama at 9:21 PM on February 22, 2008

onalark writes "Playing around with finite's script some, (I don't understand shell redirectors at all, what the heck is >2 doing, sending some of the output to /dev/null?), it appears that it's blocking all external referrers, including Yahoo! and Google, but not itself..."

2> is sending stderr to /dev/null - in other words, discarding any error output.

As far as the other thing ...

$ curl --referer cnn.com regfly.com 2>/dev/null|wc -c
24400

But you're right about Yahoo and Google, which both return 0 bytes.
posted by krinklyfig at 12:01 AM on February 23, 2008

Eponysterical!
posted by PeterMcDermott at 6:08 AM on February 23, 2008

Best of the web. Truly.
posted by fourcheesemac at 11:08 AM on February 24, 2008