Washington Post down for one day

[URLtrader]

Those big guys at Washington Post forgot to renew domain name WashPost.com :--

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/06/technology/06paper.html

I nominate them for The Dumbest Executive(s) of the Year Award !
:-D

 

[bidawinner]

Ummmm.Gee URLtrader been sleeping have we ? ! :laugh:

http://dnforum.com/t47548


I'm assuming the name had not yet dropped...it just expired ? what do you think ..

 

[gogeorge]

The Wash Post guys said their operation was a license to print money. But I don't think the employees see very much of the money so they just let the name expire.

 

[URLtrader]

Originally posted by bidawinner
Ummmm.Gee URLtrader been sleeping have we ? ! :laugh:

http://dnforum.com/t47548

I'm assuming the name had not yet dropped...it just expired ? what do you think ..

They renewed it till Jan 29, 2009. Now it is their turn to sleep till then. :-D

 

[1domains]

Same thing happened to MS and a few other big companies years ago when the net first started

I think Microsoft or MSN was one of the first companies that NetSol turned off years ago for non payment

Amazing

 

[bocajohnh]

Same thing happened to MS and a few other big companies years ago...

Microsoft's most recent blunder was letting Hotmail.co.uk expire. The drop that got big press in the US was letting passport.com expire in 1999, bringing down hotmail.com, at the time a recent purchase for MS and home of 20+ Million users.

Link to an enjoyable, well written piece on the hotmail.co.uk drop:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/33814.html

Link to the 1999 passport.com, told by the "hero":
http://www.doublewide.net/