uk.co Domains Knocked Offline By Registrar Dispute

An anonymous reader writes "The .uk.co domain was wiped off the face of the Internet this morning with no notice, leaving more than 8,000 livid individuals and businesses - including Amazon and Priceline - with no Web presence or email. I saw this on nvnews.net, which originally came from the register, but since the domain is wiped out, you can no longer reach the article." Actually, you can read the story fine on theregister.co.uk. ;)

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amazon.uk.co redirects to amazon.co.uk

[twistedcubic]

SO maybe Amazon thought of this one already...

Ahh... just like my old freemail address... POOF!

[The_Dougster]

I had this spiffy engineer.com email address hosted by first iname.com and then subsequently mail.com. Well, some while ago I noticed that I hadn't gotten any email for a while. So I sent a test email message to myself which subsequently vanished. No "undeliverable" error, nothing... black hole.

It turns out that mail.com had sold engineer.com to somebody, and that was that. I don't know how many freemailer's lost their email address because of that, but it must have been more than a few. Heck, engineer.com is still probably getting spam from all those online sweepstakes sites that I signed up with way back then, hehehe...

What was annoying was the absolute lack of warning. Yes, the mail.com agreement stated subject to termination without advance warning but I honestly didn't expect them to actually play that trump card. Well, live and learn.

Re:whitehouse.com

[Sig Police]

Religion breeds terrorism.

WTF kind of sig is that? If it were "Islam breeds terrorism" you would be labeled as a bigot. Using the even broader word "Religion" just makes you an even bigger bigot. Time for a new sig, my friend.

Re:whitehouse.com

[fucksl4shd0t]

WTF kind of sig is that? If it were "Islam breeds terrorism" you would be labeled as a bigot. Using the even broader word "Religion" just makes you an even bigger bigot. Time for a new sig, my friend.

Show me one religion that hasn't used terrorism as a tactic in all its history. Just one.

And, assuming you were going to do this, before you jump in and say Christianity, allow me to point out that you're supposed to love and "fear" God, and you're supposed to "fear" Satan and the hellfire and damnation that comes with him.

I'd go even further and say:

if(religion == terrorism) {
delete religion; // terrorism will follow
} else {
// user probably doesn't live in the real world
// do nothing here
};