Kevin Medina Regains Control of RegisterFly
The mainstream media is beginning to take notice of the RegisterFly disaster. BusinessWeek reports that Kevin Medina has regained control of the company after he had been fired by his former partners several weeks ago:
In a legal decision that stunned even the lawyers for the victor, a U.S. District Court judge on Mar. 8 handed over the embattled Web registrar Registerfly.com to the executive who was running it when it began to founder. Judge Peter Sheridan ruled in favor of defendant Kevin Medina, who had been chief executive of the parent company, Unifiednames, before he was fired by two other board members on Feb. 12.
Medina's partners, including John Naruszewicz, who temporarily took over as RegisterFly CEO, had accused him of embezzling company funds and of being the primary cause of all of the registrar's problems.
Naruszewicz said that he has no plans to appeal the judge's decision:
We lost and it's all over. The company will implode in days and 1 million domain names are going to be lost. It's a damned shame.
Meanwhile, ICANN stated on its blog that they had gained access to the majority of RegisterFly's registrant data, a potentially significant step toward the protection of registrants in the case of RegisterFly business failure. Paul Levins of ICANN also defended the organization against allegations that it was doing too little, too late while RegisterFly is burning down:
We are doing everything in our power to help. I’m sure everyone in your situation would like to see us say to RegisterFly: You are closed as of today. We are taking your data and giving it to someone else and a more responsible and well run Registrar is now taking over.
The simple fact is we can’t do that. As I have said a few times in this forum, we are NOT a regulator. We are not the Internet police. Whilst that may be an attractive idea at a time like this, it probably isn’t in anyone’s long term interests for us to be that. We have to rely on contract law here. So that’s why we are sending them notices of breaches. Because if they fail to cure them we are then in a position to take their accreditation away.
RegisterFly could lose its ICANN accreditation as early as March 14. Can Kevin Medina stage a comeback and breathe fresh life into the troubled registrar?
I can answer that last question.
No.
Its obvious Medina is out of control. But what bothers me is the Federal Judge, Judge Peter Sheridan, chose to side with the 'bad guy' and give him the company, which further SCREWS the companies and individuals.
This Judge, OBVIOUSLY, has no idea what hes doing or the consequences that will continue to arise from this.
An idiot in goverment, thats the problem here.
An idiot protecting another idiot.
Or the Judge is friends with Medina's attorney.
Thanks to you Judge Peter Sheridan, you gave him the power to CONTINUE screwing honest people.
Looks like the courts have let him go for many bad things such as cocaine!
Who Owns Unifiednames.com / RegisterFly?
Contact Info
Kevin Medina
254 Elmwynd Dr.
Orange NJ 07050
US kevin
kevin
1(973) 758-0880 (Unifiednames main number)
FAX: 1(888) 314-5646
Notice the proximity between Orange and Livingston (the PO Box).
Court records
from net searches for "Kevin Medina". These might not be the same guy, but the Mass. connection is there, and the character sure seems to fit.
NEW BEDFORD — Cases heard Monday, Oct. 7, in 3rd District Court by Judges Aileen H. Belford, George H. Lebherz Jr. and W. James O'Neill, according to records provided by court officials:
Kevin Medina, 24, 231 Highland St., New Bedford, trafficking in cocaine, trafficking in cocaine in a school zone, conspiracy to violate drug laws, dismissed, indicted and arraigned in Superior Court.
NEW BEDFORD — Cases heard Friday, Feb. 14, in 3rd District Court by Judges John A. Markey and John B. Leonard, according to records provided by court officials:
Kevin Medina, 24, 231 Highland St., New Bedford, fugitive from justice, dismissed.
Except for this…