GoDaddy to Rescue 850K RegisterFly Domain Names
GoDaddy, the world’s largest domain name registrar, has agreed to take over 850,000 domain names managed by competitor RegisterFly. As was previously posted on this blog, RegisterFly is in a heap of financial and operational trouble. Truth is, they’ve had trouble for years. The domain names transferred to GoDaddy had been in limbo with RegisterFly. Owners couldn’t transfer or renew.
Full disclosure: I’m a former and still unhappy RegisterFly customer who switched to become a very happy GoDaddy customer.
An excerpt from the Associated Press story published this evening about the deal:
“For the past few months, they were pretty much in the dark and there was a lot of frustration there,” GoDaddy Chief Executive Bob Parsons said in an interview. “All that is a thing of the past.”
Parsons refused to disclose terms of the transfer deal, saying they are confidential. But he said GoDaddy isn’t buying RegisterFly, so any lawsuits and other previous disputes remain with RegisterFly.
The deal calls for RegisterFly to give GoDaddy its customer databases. Transfers of names will be automatic, and GoDaddy will notify existing RegisterFly customers about the switch and set up a Web page and telephone hotline. GoDaddy expects to start running those names within a week.
You can read the entire story in a variety of places, including Businessweek.
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I really hope that RegisterFly will get out of trouble. I’m not using neither them nor GoDaddy, but I don’t like registrars vanishing. Their customers are left with nothing then.
I think it may be too late for them. Their reputation is damaged beyond repair. Given what you’ve heard, would you buy a domain from them? That’s not to say that their management team won’t come back under a different name … if they avoid serious legal trouble that is.
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.
Interesting. I hadn’t heard about that, so thanks for letting me know. I’ll look into it and do a follow-up post if necessary.