Alex Reid

Domain registrar RegisterFly has been warned it will lose its accreditation if it fails to remedy serious operational problems in the next 15 days.

More information has come forward about how RegisterFly got into this situation. RegisterFly’s parent company Unified Names filed a lawsuit blaming the debacle on misuse of company funds by president and CEO Kevin Medina, who was fired by the company’s board. The suit alleges that Medina used company funds on liposuction surgery and escort services.

While RegisterFly is an ICANN-accredited registrar, it has registered the majority of its domains as a reseller for eNom. ICANN told eNom that RegisterFly had altered customers’ WHOIS contact data, substituting it with “intentionally inaccurate data,” and that this action constituted a potential breach of eNom’s own accreditation agreement.