ICANN issued a formal notice of termination of RegisterFly.com’s Registration Accreditation Agreement (RAA).

ICANN has issued a letter to RegisterFly [PDF, 902K] indicating that it will cease operating as an ICANN-Accredited Registrar on March 31, 2007. Under the terms of the Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA), ICANN must provide 15 days written notice to RegisterFly of its intention to terminate.

Effective immediately ICANN has terminated RegisterFly’s right to use the ICANN Accredited Registrar logo on its website.

Between now and 31 March RegisterFly is required to unlock and provide all necessary Authinfo codes to allow domain name transfers to occur. Any and all registrants wishing to transfer away from RegisterFly during this period should be allowed to do so efficiently and expeditiously.

“Terminating accreditation is the strongest measure ICANN is able to take against RegisterFly under its powers,” Dr. Paul Twomey, President and CEO of ICANN said today.

“ICANN has been frustrated and distressed by recent management confusion inside RegisterFly,” Dr. Twomey, President said. “I completely understand the greater frustration and enormous difficulty that this has created for registrants.”

When the Agreement is terminated, ICANN can approve a bulk transfer of all current RegisterFly domain names to another ICANN accredited Registrar.

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This is one to watch.

Beatrice Ochoa launched a class against lawsuit against “Winfixer” (or more specifically, those behind it) back in September 2006 in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara.

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Another rogue. Not from ESTDOMAINS this time but installs through exploits. It also looks alot like Lavasoft’s Ad-Aware. Simple another one to avoid……

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Somebody managed to hack into the Wordpress server and modified two files in WordPress v2.1.1 to include code that would allow for remote PHP execution. Although not all downloads of v2.1.1 were affected, WordPress.org has declared the entire version dangerous and has released version 2.1.2 that includes minor updates and entirely verified files.

WordPress Article: WordPress 2.1.1 Dangerous, Upgrade

EDIT (4 March 7:28 PM): WordPress reports that the v2.1.2 code base is clean and in fact the below code is included by the developers in all copies of index.php in the WordPress package.

EDIT: It would appear that someone has successfully hacked Version 2.1.2 and has modified index.php

<?php
// Silence is golden.
?>

STATEMENT REMOVED ~ SPD ~

Reference: Wordpress 2.1.2 download package hacked