GoDaddy to Take Over RegisterFly’s Domains: It’s Official

GoDaddy to manage over 850,000 domains registered at RegisterFly.

GoDaddy, the world’s largest registrar with over 20M domains under management, is picking up another 850,000 registrations. The firm inked an agreement with ICANN and RegisterFly to take over management of the domains previously registered at RegisterFly. Ever since RegisterFly came under fire a number of months ago and lost its ICANN accreditation, domain owners have found it difficult to transfer domains to other registrars. Among the problems:

-Inability to unlock domains at RegisterFly
-Inability to get authorization codes to transfer domains from RegisterFly
-Registrants of domains with protected Whois records unable to prove ownership

This resolution is the best possible at this point in time for RegisterFly clients. GoDaddy will likely put a 60 day lock on domains ahead of they can be transferred out for “security reasons”. Still, this is much better than losing a domain altogether.

RegisterFly was known for its very low prices, but those prices came at a cost. RegisterFly clients who now have a sizable portfolio of domains at GoDaddy ought to consider the firm’s Discount Domain Club, which offers .com domains for $6.71 per year. The cost for the club is $89.99 per year. Still, the discounted pricing is $2.46 less than GoDaddy’s regular pricing. So if you have 37 domains or more it makes sense to sign up for the discount club.