Google Doesn’t Renew Google.de, Site Goes Down

[Damion]

Report: Google Doesn’t Renew Google.de, Site Goes Down

Reports are coming in from Germany that Google.de was down “for many hours” yesterday, and has now gone live again. We’re trying to confirm the reason, but it appears to be because Google forgot to renew the Google.de domain name. It expired and someone registered it. While the site was down the site showed a standard domain name registrar parked page (probably including Google Ads).

Continued...

 

[hitchhiker]

Google.de expired and hijacked?

according to techcrunch

(http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/23/google-forgets-to-renew-googlede-site-goes-down/)

Reports are coming in from Germany that Google.de was down “for many hours” yesterday, and has now gone live again. We’re trying to confirm the reason, but it appears to be because Google forgot to renew the Google.de domain name. It expired and someone registered it. While the site was down the site showed a standard domain name registrar parked page (probably including Google Ads).

Domain name management can be tricky - email renewal notices can often get lost because employees have left the company. A number of registrars specialize in handling large company domain names to make sure this kind of thing doesn’t happen. Google uses one of those services, MarkMonitor, for at least its Google.com domain name. If Mark Monitor was also managing their .de domain name it is a serious black mark on their record.

I want to stress that this is an unconfirmed story at this point. If anyone has any additional information, please pass it on. A screen shot of the site when it was down would be ideal.
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wonder if anyone know if it was hijacked or actually caught by a lucky domainer AND howmuch the guy paid for, plus how much google paid to get it back . . .

 

[namenut]

LOL! I love it.
Hope it is true just to make it even funnier.

namenut

 

[Fka200]

I really doubt google forgot to renew... plus there is a process the domain has to go to through before "dropping."


It was reported hijacked yesterday, not expired.

 

[duceman]

Whois Record

Domain: google.de
Domain-Ace: google.de
Nserver: ns4.google.com
Nserver: ns3.google.com
Nserver: ns2.google.com
Nserver: ns1.google.com
Status: connect
Changed: 2007-01-23T02:28:16+01:00

[Holder]
Type: ORG
Name: favo
Address: Hellmundstr. 31
Pcode: 65183
City: Wiesbaden
Country: DE
Remarks: ID #8616
Changed: 2004-10-27T10:45:06+02:00

[Admin-C]
Type: PERSON
Name: Mario Micklisch
Address: Hellmund Str. 31
Pcode: 65183
City: Wiesbaden
Country: DE
Remarks: ID #8614
Changed: 2004-10-27T10:46:05+02:00

[Tech-C]
Type: PERSON
Name: Mario Micklisch
Address: Hellmund Str. 31
Pcode: 65183
City: Wiesbaden
Country: DE
Phone: +491717067046
Fax: +49 12126 32863286
Email:
Remarks: ID #8614
Changed: 2004-10-27T10:46:05+02:00

[Zone-C]
Type: PERSON
Name: Mario Micklisch
Address: Hellmund Str. 31
Pcode: 65183
City: Wiesbaden
Country: DE
Phone: +491717067046
Fax: +49 12126 32863286
Email:
Remarks: ID #8614
Changed: 2004-10-27T10:46:05+02:00

 

[Lasher]

Whois Record

After reading the recent TDNam debacle, my first thought was maybe they had the name registered with GoDaddy

 

[RickM]

Google don't manage their domains...MarkMonitor do it for them.

 

[labrocca]

Was it hijacked maybe?

 

[lazyleo]

The whois info above seemes to be a hijacked version this is the whois i got:


Domain: google.de
Domain-Ace: google.de
Nserver: ns4.google.com
Nserver: ns1.google.com
Nserver: ns3.google.com
Nserver: ns2.google.com
Status: connect
Changed: 2007-01-23T09:25:39+01:00

[Holder]
Type: ORG
Name: Google Inc.
Address: 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Pcode: 94043
City: Mountain View
Country: US
Changed: 2006-09-05T17:05:45+02:00

[Admin-C]
Type: PERSON
Name: Lena Tangermann
Organisation: Google Germany GmbH
Address: ABC-Strasse 19
Pcode: 20354
City: Hamburg
Country: DE
Changed: 2006-09-05T17:05:46+02:00

[Tech-C]
Type: PERSON
Name: Google Inc.
Address: Google Inc.
Address: 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Pcode: 94043
City: Mountain View
Country: US
Phone: +1-6503300100
Fax: +1-6506188571
Email: Whois Privacy and Spam Prevention by DomainTools.com
Changed: 2005-05-19T18:02:06+02:00

[Zone-C]
Type: PERSON
Name: Domain Billing
Organisation: MarkMonitor
Address: PO Box 155 10400 Overland Road
Pcode: 83709
City: Boise
Country: US
Phone: +1-2083895740
Fax: +1-2083895799
Email: Whois Privacy and Spam Prevention by DomainTools.com
Changed: 2006-04-06T17:26:24+02:00

 

[NeeJam]

Wow seems like Markmonitor didnt do their job properly.

If its ture wonder how mcuh that guy must of made with all that traffic //2

 

[thaiboy]

If this name was really dropped, I'm sure we should have known it no later than pending delete period.

 

[champ_rock]

common guys.. if my knowledge is correct then it would have to have been dead for at least one month before it COULD be renewd.. this is comletely fake

 

[renec]

Here's some info on this incident:

http://www.dailydomainer.com/news/200735-googlede-back-under-googles-control.html

Apparently MarkMonitor is to blame for the hijack (they didn't respond to a transfer request, which was interpreted as approval in accordance with German registry rules), and DeNIC is responsible for the domain ending up with a drop catcher (looks like they very briefly dropped the domain when they tried to return it to Google... long enough for the drop catcher to grab it)!