A domain registrar RegisterFly has lost its accreditation with ICANN on 16th March this year. “Terminating accreditation is the strongest measure ICANN is able to take against RegisterFly under its powers. ICANN has been frustrated and distressed by recent management confusion inside RegisterFly, I completely understand the greater frustration and enormous difficulty that this has created for registrants.” Dr. Paul Twomey, President and CEO of ICANN said on this anouncement. In the announcement, ICANN also stated that they have immediately terminated RegisterFly’s right to use the ICANN Accredited Registrar logo on its Web site. Moreover, between now and 31 March RegisterFly is required to unlock and provide all necessary Authinfo codes to allow domain name transfers to occur. Any registrant wishing to transfer away from RegisterFly during this period should be allowed to do so efficiently and expeditiously. However, as I visited the landing page of RegisterFly, it seems that they did not updated their Web site for quite some time and the ICANN logo is still exist on there at the time of writing.

There are chaos surrounding RegisterFly before the above termination notice has been taken by ICANN. This was leading to the set up of a Web site, RegisterFlies to serve the angry customers and from there you will read a lot of depress comments written by the RegisterFly customers. Ironically, RegisterFly, a domain registrar based in New Jersey has only became a ICANN-accredited registrar barely a year ago and previously was a reseller for eNom. eNom is the second-largest domain registrar in the world and has recently terminated RegisterFly’s reseller status last month.