A quick --Google-- for "RegisterFly sucks" will reveal that my position on RegisterFly is by no means unique. I registered a couple of domains with them purely because a.) they accepted Stormpay (letting me convert clicks into domains), b.) they were amazingly cheap (.info domains cost $1.69, $0.60 during a sale, although the price goes up sharply when you try and renew your domains), and c.) I had picked up a free .be domain during their promotion last year because I expected to get a 1GB website (in fact, it's 100MB and doesn't support Flash - see under the "Free Web Hosting" section).

Well, I fell into the oldest trick in the book - pay peanuts, get monkeys. First they refused to change my DNS settings. Then they changed my whois information so the owner of my domains was listed as "RegisterFly" (hmm...). "RegisterFly" apparently lived in Pakistan and had an obscene email address (I wasn't alone in getting this 'special treatment' - save a tear for the Christian Evangelical site --Love America Back-- , who ended up with the same perverted email address added to their whois information). Fighting the urge to shower RegisterFly with invective, I calmly changed my whois information from the perverted Pakistani default.

Guess what? My email address 'mysteriously' found its way onto the whois information of every domain currently using Registerfly's default profile. My email address was showered with spam mail and requests to purchase bandwidth from sites I didn't even own. Even more incredibly, I was being sent transfer information for these domains, often complete with usernames and passwords! Now, I could have abused this situation by holding these domains to ransom or entering their account and transferring them to myself (one fellow victim of RegisterFly suggested I demand that they transfer all domains bearing my email address to me, then sell them on Ebay, but as I pointed out, the owners of these domains had done nothing wrong). Instead, I helped out everyone who contacted me, and repeatedly asked Registerfly to remove my name from their database, but nothing doing! Their support staff is, quite frankly, brain-dead (when I told them they had appended my email address to domains I did not own, they told me I could protect 'my' whois details by purchasing ProtectFly which lets you -gasp- USE THE DAMN DEFAULT PROFILE, WHICH NOW LISTS ME AS THE CONTACT ADDRESS!).

I still receive spam mail and the occasional "I wish to purchase X domain from you" mail to this day. Nevertheless, I include them here for their low cost and ability to accept Stormpay. Use them at your own risk, you will almost certainly be ripped off, spammed, or forced to fend off lawsuits directed at domains you do not even own (As happened to me during this sordid little saga. Twice.)