It’s official, GoDaddy is taking over the embattled RegisterFly’s customers. Is that good news or what!

According to the GoDaddy site:

GoDaddy.com®, the world’s leading domain name registrar, has reached an agreement with RegisterFly® and ICANN® to transfer over RegisterFly’s portfolio of Web site names to GoDaddy.com. The move will help resolve problems involving hundreds of thousands of domain names around the world.

I thing a “hallelujah” or two is in order for those who had domains at RegisterFly and have been unable to renew or transfer them!

Bob Parsons had this to say:

There have been some changes at RegisterFly (RF), but it’s still a mess. I just recently bought a website and unfortunately the registrar, you guessed it, is RF.

I have still been unable to unlock it (their unlock procedure just doesn’t work or is so mysterious I’ll have to get Gandalf to help me). Wrote to their support, blah-blah-blah, and of course still waiting for a reply.

Just noticed though that GoDaddy has implemented a special transfer program with special rates for RF customers who want to get the hell out of that mess! So I’m going to give it a try:

Boy, am I glad I (finally) got all my domains out from RegisterFly!

Seems many were not so lucky.

The Domaintools blog had this to say:

Reports are flying in about RegisterFly’s implosion. Registerfly’s web site went dark for most of the Monday after the CEO Kevin Medina changed the root password and locked everyone out. It started earlier in the month, on February 12th, vice president John Naruszewicz threw the first major punch by suing the CEO with a claim of misappropriation of corporate funds. The CEO and the Vice-President both own 50% of the company so they are in a dead-lock right now. It seems Mr. Naruszewicz has taken higher ground by sending Mr. Medina a letter of termination.Chihuahua