Comments on: RegisterFly, er RegFly at it again

RegisterFly, er RegFly at it again

FlamingBore — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 13:29:59 -0800

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, Reg~~ister~~Fly, uh I mean RegFly has partnered with leading wholesale registrar Tucows to start selling domain names again. RegisterFlies.com comes out of retirement. Previously.

By: mumkin

mumkin — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:21:10 -0800

This axe blade of yours looks dull. Needs more grinding.

By: datacenter refugee

datacenter refugee — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:24:39 -0800

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.

By: dammitjim

dammitjim — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:49:32 -0800

Yeah, they screwed me. Jerk offs. Here's wishing them a long, slow, ignominious business death by lack of customers.

By: ronin21

ronin21 — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:18:09 -0800

Sure, I'll give these netsharks my money and time again; let me get my shovel...

By: flabdablet

flabdablet — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:32:44 -0800

Fly, customers.

By: dozo

dozo — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:43:30 -0800

thank you for the heads up.

By: finite

finite — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:34:54 -0800

$ curl regfly.com 2>/dev/null|wc -c 24400 $ curl --referer metafilter.com regfly.com 2>/dev/null|wc -c 1

By: JZig

JZig — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:39:48 -0800

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.

By: chasing

chasing — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:06:12 -0800

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.

By: onalark

onalark — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 19:02:20 -0800

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?

By: tomorama

tomorama — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 21:21:38 -0800

I too was caused a lot of headaches and wasted time by Kevin Medina. He should not be allowed anywhere near the Internet.

By: krinklyfig

krinklyfig — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:01:28 -0800

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.

By: PeterMcDermott

PeterMcDermott — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 06:08:05 -0800

Eponysterical!

By: fourcheesemac

fourcheesemac — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 11:08:31 -0800

Best of the web. Truly.