Washington Post forgets to renew domain

[aww]

The domain news sites are hyping this up bigtime, as the Washington Post forgets to renew WashPost.com (their main domain was not affected).

pick any news source

They had it back in three hours of course.

This is nowhere near as interesting as when Microsoft forgot to renew Hotmail.co.uk last year and someone else did it for them (MS did the same thing back in 1999 for passport.com)

 

[Riceman]

Let me guess, a spam filter caught the renewal notice from the registrar?

 

[aww]

Actually I think I read that they weren't monitoring the mailbox listed for the registration. Very funny considering the WHOIS bill that Congress is looking at.

Why a company that large isn't doing 10 year registrations is just silly to me.

 

[Anthony]

When a large company forgets to renew and then lets the name expire, then that will be big news!

 

[armstrong]

Originally posted by aww
Why a company that large isn't doing 10 year registrations is just silly to me.

If you think about it, a domain registered for longer periods is just bound to be forgotten. If it's been working for the past 10 years, who's going to remember to renew it? The one who did would likely be in a different company by then.

 

[Anthony]

Originally posted by armstrong
If you think about it, a domain registered for longer periods is just bound to be forgotten. If it's been working for the past 10 years, who's going to remember to renew it? The one who did would likely be in a different company by then.

Maybe, but re-registering from year to year is probably a worse idea, LOL!

 

[nicholas]

This is good argument for 100-year registrations. :D

 

[Anthony]

Originally posted by nicholas
This is good argument for 100-year registrations. :D

Let me know when you get that idea through to registrars.

Wait, they might like getting paid $10,000 in advance! :hehe:

 

[Dave_Z]

Only one word to describe what happened: ooops.:notme:

 

[Bill1]

cant they set a reminder or something?