GoDaddy’s calling Registerfly customers
As we already know GoDaddy will be taking over the RegisterFly names. It looks like they have now started contacting customers in order to let them know as of when they will be able to manage their names at RegisterFly – it seems like the user import will be completed next week.
It would be very interesting to know if ICANN and GoDaddy were able to recover the registration information from the domains using the RegisterFly whois-privacy service (which actually was also used by other registrars).
Some complaints have arisen from former RegisterFly customers (whose domains were transferred from RegisterFly.com to Go Daddy in the May 29, 2007 agreement with ICANN) that Go Daddy is refusing to allow transfers out to other registrars. Go Daddy is citing ICANN rules which they claim allow them to deny transfers within the first 60 days of a previous transfer. Customers contend that this rule only applies to Holder-Authorized Transfers and note that the transfer from RegisterFly was involuntary.