Registrar forgot to renew their own domain

[Anthony Ng]

Shhh ... don't tell anybody else:

DreamHost, the host that I've been using for more than 4 years, was down yesterday morning (I guess probably from the early hours). Its domain actually resolved to Verisign's much hated Site Finder! A few hours later, I got an e-mail from them saying that "due to a problem renewing our dreamhost.com domain registration, it lapsed today". Can you believe this?

The irony is: they are actually an ICANN-accredited registrar themselves, under the name Domainitron and are also the registry manager of .la!! Someone is going to be spanked for not transferring their OWN domain away from NetSol, which they are still using. LOL!

Having said that, they are really a bunch of very nice guys.

 

[Spider]

Sounds like a host I would never use, can't even keep up with their own domain.

 

[Biggie]

Originally posted by Spider
Sounds like a host I would never use, can't even keep up with their own domain.

I'll have to go along with this assessment!

 

[aguss]

I guess they are not really into domains.... :-D

 

[Anthony Ng]

Well ... I'll take that as part of the growing pain, when they have turned from a buddy team to a corporate in a few years' time. Remember when Microsoft forgot to renew passport.com which brought HoTMaiL down?

 

[DataSN.com]

This is epic

 

[copper]

This is epic

Wake up!
This is 9 years ago