The hosting doctor is in and is ready to see you now. There are several sicknesses out there in the web hosting world that could bring you down.
I’ll inform you about those, and let you know of a few hyper-linked medications to check out too. The Web Hosting Show includes no side effects and an awesome orange-like flavor I’m sure you will enjoy.
Download the Web Hosting Show, Episode 140!
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Here are just a few topics from this week’s episode of the Web Hosting Show.
- A Cool New Visual Trace Route Tool!
- Thing is Web Hosting That Make Me Angry!
- ICANN and Google Hopes to Stop Domain Tasters?
- Fighting Terrorists via Web Hosts and Data Centers?
- Advice on How to Get Your Name Out There!
I am your medical malpractice for the hosting world ready to happen and I welcome you into my offices yet again to talk about web hosting, web development, domains, terrorists and even a few things that make me angry. Don’t make me angry, you wouldn’t like me when I’m angry!
Got a little ‘bit of something for everybody on today’s show. From a recap of RegisterFly’s mess to the price you pay for really cheap web hosting the shock and awe Web Hosting Show campaign starts right now. No caucus needed, but plenty of topics that should stir debate.
If you have ever done any serious server shopping, you have seen two words that you might not understand. Do you want a dedicated server that is “managed” or do you want one that is “unmanaged”? What really are the differences between the two? You know me, I’ll let you know (without the jargon) on this week’s edition of the Web Hosting Show.
Holy Hosting?! How is RegisterFly Still in Business?
RegisterFly’s demise as an ICANN accredited register was one of the biggest hosting stories of last year. These days you don’t hear much about it though. Technically, yes – they are and can still be in business.
Look Back at the RegisterFly Mess
Back inn 2007, ICANN launched an investigation of RegisterFly since there were a lot of allegations they were sticking it to the customer. With other issues and lawsuits that followed, the RegisterFly co-owners Kevin Medina and John Naruszewicz had a breakup of their own. The road was rocky, the public was mad and then it was made known by an unsealed class action lawsuit that there were claims RegisterFly defrauded customers trying to register or renew domain names.
According to Wikipedia, one of the early lawsuits within RegisterFly was pretty hilarious.
March 31, 2007 was the date that ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) removed RegisterFly’s ICANN accreditation and told them to take the ICANN logo off of their web site. Skipping ahead though the legal mumbo-jumbo they could no longer act as a domain name register themselves and had to give up the domain name registrations they had done to ICANN. GoDaddy and other companies stood up and offered the RegisterFly refugees a home for their domains and that pretty much catches us up to the present date and time.
So Why is RegisterFly Still Around?
Well, this message from Robert O’Neal, Chief Executive Officer for RegisterFly should give you a candy coated reason:
We are an authorized reseller of domain names, the same as we have been for 6 years prior, this has not changed. We are NOT OUT OF BUSINESS as the message may imply to some.
So they can’t act as a domain name register themselves, like a GoDaddy can but they can resell domain names to you, like many web hosts do out there though a reseller service. This is how they did business before becoming an accredited register. So technically they are no longer a domain name register, they are just reselling somebody else’s registration services to you.