Registerfly Forces ICANN to Go Where no Web Regulator Has Gone Before

http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-27apr07.htm

Summary: Today ICANN sent out a solicitation of statements of interest, and the terminated registrar procedure relating to the Registerfly situation. This has never happened before. It's really Internet history being made. This is the first time an ICANN accredited registrar went so far as to be terminated, its registrations and registrants transfered to a new lifeboat registrar. I think ICANN is learning a great deal from this process and I compliment those staff members burning the midnight oil to see that displaced registrants are taken care of.

The winning registrar will be in a good position to help with future meltdowns, should they occur.

Comments

[Edwin]

Eventually, the music will have to stop, but even today the RegisterFly site itself shows no sign of any of the ongoing issues that are currently being resolved. At "face value" it's business as usual at RegisterFly. Hopefully this new action by ICANN will be the final prod needed to get the situation resolved.

[Mike]

Frank,

SevenMile is addictive.

Thanks for sharing about RobotReplay....wow!!

Your writings will live on for centuries.

Frank, you make MicroPersuasion look like outdated roadkill.

Cheers,

Mike
P.S. Please rethink MOBI. ing.mobi & DeutscheBank.mobi launched. Webdesigner friends at Sapient have told me to watch for many more Fortune 1000 brands launching MOBI sites from their outfit this year.

***FS*** I always try to keep open minded.. I saw a lot of guys registering .mobi searchterms that are obvious traffic plays.. there will be no traffic at those plays and I didn't want to cheerlead the space because I don't want people to get hurt. There won't be any traffic/revenue there for a long time.. but I will totally keep an open mind and promises to admit I was wrong if I am on this.