Monday, August 31, 2009

RegisterFly

RegFly.com - No respect for ICANN

RegisterFly STILL claim they have an ICANN Accreditation. They might have removed the ICANN Logo from the front but any new visitor coming to the RegisterFly website might go to the "About Us" page and think the fraud company have an ICANN Accreditation.


THIS IS WHAT THE PAGE SAYS TODAY:
Company Information
RegisterFly.com, inc. is an ICANN Accredited registrar. RegisterFly.com provides industry leading 24/7 Support via a variety of methods which includes, phone, email, ticket system. RegisterFly.com offers domain registrations as low as $2.99/ea and domain transfers for only $6.99. By adhering to our basic principals of low cost and value to our customers and excellent customer service we have grown to be one of the largest low cost registrars on the web today. In terms of number of customers and domains registered we are one of the 10th largest registrars in the world. We are not a "one man" shop (like many domain registrars and resellers) or a "here today gone tomorrow" business, we have invested substantially in positioning Registerfly.com as a global industry leader.

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

RegisterFly Lawsuit

I have promised not to flood your email with meaningless spam so I have waited until we had new information before contacting all of you. RegisterFly, Kevin Medina, Hosting Services Group, Inc. and Unified Names, Inc. collectively never answered the original complaint; therefore, a tactical decision was made to file a Motion for Entry of Default Judgment against the four Defendants. While we have moved for an entry of default, the issue of damages is still quite complex and requires quite a bit more discovery and research before we can present the Court with an assessment of the total harm caused by these defendants.

While there are estimated to be a quarter million people harmed, the Dummit Law Firm is working to represent the entire class of harmed domain holders. We have reviewed thousands of accounts, notes, and memoranda and has received many calls for other people who were similarly affected. We are still assessing how to proceed against ICANN and Enom, and possibly the TLDs.

Once the Default is entered by the Clerk of Court for the Middle District of North Carolina, the next step will be to prove damages against the above Defendants. On behalf of Plaintiffs, the Dummit Law Firm will continue to work closely with micro- and macro-economic experts in order to fully ascertain the extent of the damages caused by RegisterFly and others.

As members of the Class we represent, you will be called upon to fill out information about the domains you lost and the economic harm you suffered. We are still working with our experts to design the appropriate questionnaire to facilitate such a vast amount of information. We will contact you with any further information as soon as we are able.

Clarke Dummit
Lead Plaintiff Attorney

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Kevin Medina for court hearing

The court ordered Kevin to publish on his website a notice telling people about ICANN terminating it's accreditation as set forth in the preliminary injunction issued on April 16, 2007. The court has further ordered that Kevin and Registerfly comply with all other aspects of the preliminary injunction by no later than June 1, 2007 otherwise he's ordered to pay $5000 a day until he does comply.

This morning, United States District Court Judge Manuel L. Real issued a Permanent Injunction against RegisterFly. The Court held Registerfly and Kevin Medina personally to be in contempt of the Court’s earlier Preliminary Injunction Order. - ICANN

While this seems like a lot of money to some of us, it all depends on the cash flow of Registerfly. A while back we had an insider tell us that the Registerfly website was taking in between $5,000 and $15,000 a day, all of which were for services that weren't rendered. Still today, there are people going to the site and registering domain names, signing up for merchant accounts, joining the Registerfly reseller program and purchasing hosting services... none of which is being given. This constitutes Grand Larceny at the least. Why isn't there an injunction to shut the site down completely?

Kevin Medina has been given the permission to continue defrauding the public and lulling them into making purchases for products he cannot provide. A slap on the hand... a gentle pat on the ass... and Kevin you can go home now, just let people know you are no longer ICANN accredited before you take any more of their money. Is this ridiculous? So there we have it folks, justice has spoken and justice has been delivered. Registerfly lives on while Kevin and his chihuahua sip on martinis watching the sunset in Belize. Hello Interpol... Can you hear us now?

Get the full details of this on the blog post from ICANN.

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

John Naruszewicz answer

Dear RegisterFlying,

Thank you for calling something that I tried to save and prevent from turning into what it eventually did, "bullshit".

The worst part of this never ending saga is that Godaddy.com made a closed door deal with ICANN (which some key lawyers now know about) to have registerfly.com sell its customers to them. The most interesting part is that Godaddy.com didn't pay Medina in cash. They allowed Medina to open up a new company and sell Godaddy.com products for cost or for free in certain cases. This way Medina continues to screw customers and his money is protected from going back to customers that it was stolen from.

I do suppose this was a smart move by Parsons and Medina. (Two very selfish and self centered businessmen.)

Check out hostflex.com and also note how unifiednames.com forwards to hostflex.com. Also read the customer agreement on registerfly.com and hostflex.com (they're the same but "registerfly.com" is removed. (I wrote the registerfly.com agreement several years ago and no one knows the wording better than myself). Also check out the listed address for hostflex.com. It turns out that it's a UPS Store PO Box address. It's all a total scam and the laws in this country are allowing it to continue.

Now that's "bullshit"!

Best regards John Naruszewicz

PS. Please make sure you fully inform yourself before posting something, in your own opinion, that attempts to harm someone's character.

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Official Statement Registerfly

Read this piece of Bullshit from John Naruszewicz at RegisterFly.com

We at Registerfly.Com would like to offer our sincere apologies to all that have been affected by the actions of our former CEO / President, Kevin Medina. We cannot change the past but will make every effort to change the future of RegisterFly.com. As a result of Kevin Medina's actions many of you have lost your domains, experienced problems with your Hosting, Renewals and Registrations. For this reason Mr. Medina's our "Board of Directors" had no recourse but to take action against Mr. Medina and fire him.

Law suits against Kevin Medina have been filed in Federal Court for his actions as well as criminal charges. Copies of Mr. Medina's Termination Letter, Board of Directors Resolution and Court Filings can be seen on Registerflies.com. We will continue to provide all court documents and post updates on Registerflies.com as well. Currently we can not provide any information on the criminal charges as it is an on going investigation yet we will provide that data once we are told we are allowed to by law enforcement.

Our intention is to keep all concerned updated with the true facts that surround this matter. It appears that the only way is for Kevin Medina to be arrested and eventually see jail time. While we know that this will not cure the damage that has been done, Glenn and I, John Naruszewicz, are seeking all that we can on behalf of our treasured and valued customers.

Our priority number one is our customers we have and even the customers that we have lost. For the customers who have not been affected by all of this we assure you that you will have your domain name with a safe and strong company. Another major focus is to build a customer support group that will give you the customer support you deserve and unlike anything currently seen in the industry. Unfortunately this will take some time to do and we ask for your patience and understanding while we build a new support group.

Many of you may or may not know that Mr. Medina fired all employees shortly before Christmas with the exception of 8 that remain in our New Jersey office. John Naruszewicz was able to save these important jobs by personally paying the staff with his own funds. Mr. Medina agreed to a contract with myself that he was to open an office in Miami. Since Mr. Medina was never good with customer support I felt it best that he have no interaction with customers and only ran the back office. Mr. Medina violated this contract by hiring 7 people for Third Level Support. These people had little to no knowledge of the domain name industry let alone even knew what DNS was. The horrific level of support that was offered from January onward is proof of this.

Many have asked why our customer service reps could not perform the necessary tasks that you as the customer needed done. The reason behind that was "Control". The NJ Customer Service Reps. did not have the functionality to do what they needed to be done. Mr. Medina, as many do not know, wrote the entire Registerfly.com website and had full and total control of its data. After his termination, Mr. Medina deleted email accounts, access to support tools, and access for our risk/billing department to issue refunds.

Going forward all CSR's will have the ability to do any task that is asked of them, there will be no more transferring from one department to another. We will be using the "one and done" philosophy from here in out. The other priority is training. We will make sure that when you reach a Customer Service Rep. you will have reached a person that can perform the necessary task to correct your problem.

Contrary to the old attitude or business practices of the prior President/CEO we care about you, our customers. We will make every effort to insure that the practices of the past and the problems of the past are just that; the past. There will be no room for this in the future and 100% effort and execution will become the normal.

We are assembling what we want to call the dream team and it will be through this team that we will provide the direction for all RegisterFly.com employees to follow.

As the new President/CEO, I, John Naruszewicz, have personally pledged all of my personal assets to make all of this happen. I've mortgaged my home, leveraged all assets, and am in the stages of securing large letters of credit to bring this company forward properly. I've devoted these funds to RegisterFly.com so that we will be able to provide the products and service you need and deserve.

I've been very fortunate to have invested wisely and worked very hard for what I have. Now I am giving everything that I know of as I truly am concerned about our customers and an honest and ethically run company. While my investment may not solve the problems of the past it will ensure the future business of all of our customers. I came from nothing and do not have a privileged past. I understand better than most what it is like to make that extra $80 a month off of a domain name. There were times when I didn't have money for food or heat for my home. That extra money was my lifeblood and I would have been harmed if I lost it. I understand! Mr. Medina is a selfish, cold hearted, self loving, criminal. He will only understand what he has done when he is finally in prison.

Our goal is not to be the biggest but to be known as a company with great products, great pricing, but most of all the best, and most ethical, customer support and service that can be provided. You our customers have suffered the most and for those who are still with us we thank you! To those who have left we offer our sincerest apologies. This will not change the past but we are working on regaining your trust and we're currently seeking a solution for the problems caused. We hope that perhaps, in the future, when you see what we have to offer you will give us a try again and also stick with us as we're though our worst part. We do not wish to dwell in the past but to learn from the past and assure you that this will never happen again.

I will never forget a comment that I've recently read on Registerflies.com. It read something like: "I don't care about any internal problems with Registerfly.com. I only care that I have a safe place to keep my domain names". Who ever said those words is a very wise person and I guarantee them and all customers that you do and will have a very safe place to keep your domains.

The next few weeks are crucial and we see Registerfly.com bouncing back to a level that it was at before and even exceeding expectations of prior days. Please join us in our efforts as, without our customers, what business do we really have?

Thursday, July 23, 2009

Registerfly Spam

REGISTERFLY AKA REGFLY.COM COURTESY REMINDER FOR XXX

Even after all domains have been moved from RegisterFly they still SPAM on a daily basis - here is one of the mails they send telling to renew domains NOT even with them anymore!

Domain Renewals may be due

Hello XXX:

This is being sent to you as a courtesy, since you seem to have been a REGISTERFLY customer. If you wish to not get this notice please let us know and we will gladly remove you from future notices, please contact us using the information below

https://registerfly.net/help/. If your name is no longer with us, please disregard, otherwise you can save by moving it to Registerfly.

Sunday, July 19, 2009

Registerfly lost Accreditation

March 15, 2007
ICANN has in fact stripped Registerfly of the Accreditation effective IMMEDIATELY!

ICANN today issued a formal notice of termination of RegisterFly.com's Registration Accreditation Agreement (RAA).

ICANN has issued a letter to RegisterFly [PDF, 902K] indicating that it will cease operating as an ICANN-Accredited Registrar on March 31, 2007. Under the terms of the Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA), ICANN must provide 15 days written notice to RegisterFly of its intention to terminate.

Effective immediately ICANN has terminated RegisterFly's right to use the ICANN Accredited Registrar logo on its website.

Between now and 31 March RegisterFly is required to unlock and provide all necessary Authinfo codes to allow domain name transfers to occur. Any and all registrants wishing to transfer away from RegisterFly during this period should be allowed to do so efficiently and expeditiously.

"Terminating accreditation is the strongest measure ICANN is able to take against RegisterFly under its powers," Dr. Paul Twomey, President and CEO of ICANN said today.

"ICANN has been frustrated and distressed by recent management confusion inside RegisterFly," Dr. Twomey, President said. "I completely understand the greater frustration and enormous difficulty that this has created for registrants."

When the Agreement is terminated, ICANN can approve a bulk transfer of all current RegisterFly domain names to another ICANN accredited Registrar.

"Of course, RegisterFly does not have to wait till then. They can request ICANN to approve a bulk transfer immediately. I call on RegisterFly to act in the interests of registrants and seek such a transfer from us straight away," Dr. Twomey said.

ICANN intends to hold a forum to discuss the reform of the Accreditation policy and process at its Lisbon meeting in a week's time*.

A set of questions and points to inform the discussion will be made public prior to the Lisbon meeting.

* The Lisbon meeting is one of three meetings held a year by ICANN to meet with global stakeholders. It will take place from 26-30 March 2007.

Media Contacts:

Jason Keenan
Media Adviser
ICANN ( USA)
Ph: +1 310 818 9072
E: jason.keenan@icann.org

International: Andrew Robertson
Edelman ( London)
Ph: +44 7921 588 770
E: andrew.robertson@edelman.com