Whatever your interest in web sites, this is news:
GODADDY.COM REACHES AGREEMENT TO HELP REGISTERFLY CUSTOMERS

The short version: RegisterFly got into difficulties and were stripped of their registrar status by ICANN. ICANN has been hoping to get someone to ‘adopt’ all of the domain names (and their customers) which RegisterFly has under their banner so that no-one would lose any domain names. It seems that GoDaddy has stepped up and taken that challenge by accepting 850,000 domain names.

This is good news for RegisterFly customers who were facing the potentially nightmarish situation of losing their domain names and being able to do nothing about it.

You can bet that GoDaddy are going to make some marketing capital out of this though

GoDaddy are, by all accounts, the largest domain registrar on the planet (on the basis of domains registered, I believe) and adding over three quarters of a million domain names is going to boost that position somewhat.

What I find most amusing is that I cannot find a single reference to any of this on the RegisterFly web site. Quite the contrary, their web site implies a perfectly working, healthy business (though it stops short of claiming ICANN accreditation, which it no longer has). Witness if you will, and chuckle if your sense of humour is like mine, this quote from their company information page:

We are not…a “here today gone tomorrow” business…