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Microsoft Forgets To Renew Hotmail.co.uk
Saint Aardvark writes "The Register is reporting that Microsoft forgot to renew their hotmail.co.uk domain. A Good Samaritan renewed it for them, but was unable to get a response from anyone at Microsoft. Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it."
D'OH!
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Good Samaritan my foot.
"Hey, I save this domain for you. It'll only cost you $60,000".
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You'd think MS would be clever enough to use a registrar that supports auto-renewal. Like any tucows reseller.
HA HA!
That's awesome. Whoever renewed that domain should get a medal from Microsoft. That and a huge smack upside the head for not temporarily posting something humorous... like a huge image of Bill Gates's pie incident.
DOH!
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Or maybe the porn squatters wouldn't touch it, considering that there might be a public outcry.
I would have kept it and sold it back at a price. Microsoft apparently is being rather childish in how they are responding to this by saying nothing, and for a while not even responding to the guy who bought it back for them.
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It seems to me that the has happened at least 2 times. I hope someone loses their jjob over this.
Then maybe I can find one, I can make sure that all the domains that microsoft owns are renewed every time they are due, I bet they own a large enough number to make it a full time job too.
moo.
It's too bad the individuals who legally registered these domains (hotmail.co.uk and passport.com) didnt' see fit to turn them over to the EFF or FSF. Even if only $35 was paid by Microsoft to retrieve them, the irony of making Microsoft pay those organizations would have been rich and wonderous.
Wasn't microsoft.com renewed by someone in the open source community a few years back? That made headlines in a few places.
Is it really that hard to assign one person the task of being responsible for domain renewals?
Jeez, even if that's all somebody did it would be worth paying someone $20,000/year just to avoid serious cock-ups like this one.
"Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue." - David Brent, Wernham Hogg
a (soon-to-be) Rich samaritan?
I didn't see if there was any kind of reward offered for returning the domain. I noticed the article mentioned that this happened to Passport.com, and that the person who picked it up for $35 returned it shortly after. But still no mention of a reward. Technically (and this is a stretch considering the M$ legal team) they could tell them to f*ck off, but no one seems to have done that. Are they getting compensated for their generous nature?
Goatse.cx?
I mean, that would guarantee a response from Micro$oft....
The major organizations have shown that major companies like MS are 'entitled' to domain names similar to their company name, bar none. Thus, their is no need to register for it, no one can take it anyway...
I say it should have been redirected to the goatsecx guy...that'd be an interesting turn of events for some 8-year-old trying to check his mail, eh?
can we all agree that whoever snaps it up just keeps it for as long as we can? Put up a big Bill the Borg picture. I'd like that.
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Paying to renew it is much different than transfering ownership, or changing the name servers for it. It would have been a lot harder for the person to re-register it for themselves.
Plus they would have been torn apart later in court. remember, you can only legally steal domain names if you're a bunch of Tree huggin' hippies
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But people don't let them to do that. :)
wouldn't it be better to let the site just not resolve or display an expired domain error until someone at microsoft figured out what was happening? btw I don't think renewing it gave him ownership of the domain. it takes a while for expired domains to be resold to give the original owner a little more time to claim it
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Would life without Hotmail mean less spam?
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Hotmail runs on Windows 2000 servers. I have a secret for everyone. Linux does all their backend processing. Linux stores all hotmail in a single Mailbox file. When a user logs in, the mail program opens the file, locks it, and searchs the entire file for all emails to the user. This makes hotmail one of the most efficient web-based emails services because of the speed of reading that single Mailbox file.
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I was under the impression that Nominet don't allow re-registration if a domain expires, only if it's explicitly released. My domain lapsed a year or so ago (registrar didn't renew it for me in time) but is still in my name, if inactive. They charge about 80 to reactivate a domain, such a money making exercise.
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for when fools will do it for you.....
Prehaps someone should just register hotmale.co.uk and point it to them
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I think it is quite obvious.
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how difficult is it for a company to have database for all domainnames they have, and a field "exp_date"? or do they have one and it's accesss based, written in VB?
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Trusted Computing from a trusted company. Come on guys, you can take these people seriously. Its clear to me, that microsoft did this by design. After all, its never, ever a bug. Its a feature. Or maybe, someone wrote about this on their weblog? Bah. Who cares - hes probably fired by now. Tool.
I've often wondered about this as a potential problem for webservices and to a lesser degree, XSD specs and XML namespaces. Take for example MapPoint.NET - a pretty cool (if overpriced) service that benefits from a webservice model. But say MapPoint.net rolls back- even temporarily-to somewhere else. First, there's a potential security issue: the lucky individual would get tons of requests, possibly including security info. Second, any mission critical apps- would flop until things got squared away. I guess these could all be overcome by good design, such as creating fall-back domains that the client knows to use, but I've yet to hear much talk of doing this.
Oh, wait, that's Microsoft's fault, not Simoniker's. My bad...
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Is there some kind of maximum renewal length on these domains? It's not like Microsoft doesn't have the money to pay for 20 years (or longer) of the domain, and not worry about it expiring.
The microsoft.com domain expires in May of 2012, hotmail.com in March of 2010, so why aren't they purchasing all of their domains for long periods?
Services like MSN, Hotmail, and I'm sure even the Passport stuff are separate subsidiaries of MS, and are not controlled/overseen by one group or person.
I would guess that even Hotmail's UK service is separate from the main Hotmail (the .com people), as is common with most corporations.
Granted none of this is an excuse, but, it's only fair to point this out. I mean, it's happened to many companies in recent times, and is seen both large and small companies; and I would put money that it's only a matter of tmie until it happens to a "friend" site.
The moral of the story ... this serves as a good reminder to renew that precious domain for the max (is it ten years?) right now. :)
...doesn't mean it's up for grabs. There is, at minimum, a 40 day period after the domain expires before it is actually made available for registration. It is usually 14 days after the expiration that the domain is deleted from the root servers and this is when outages can occur.
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I was not aware that reporting the news counts as bashing. I suppose if the President of the U.S. was arrested for drunk driving and CNN decided to report on it, that that would be "pathetic" and "anti-Bush?"
You're an idiot.
I have mystic psychic powers (and Google).
Honestly, I sometimes think about registering Hotmial.com because when I manually enter the url, about 1 in 20 times that's what I end up typing.
Then I think about how many other people with Hotmail accounts might be doing the same thing and how much smoke might start rising from my server, slap myself, and forget the idea for a while.
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I fit were me, I would duplicate the original hotmail site so users think all is well. I would then develop a "marklar" filter where every noun in outgoing email messages is replaced with the word "marklar". But that's just me.
What's a Marklar?
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...so, why take pitty on a megacorp that can't be bothered to renew for the next, say, 100?
Anyone have any idea why the worlds biggest and worlds most influental company forgot to pay a simple check?
What's so bad about being lazy? What if there was a war and nobody showed up?
Whether there is one legal department for all of Microsoft, or separate ones for each division of the company, this is the department that is in charge of keeping track of things like trademarks. Domain names fall into this category. They are most likely the ones to blame for this oversight.
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i'm amazed that i survived - an airbag saved my life.
Had a laugh about it, then told her to use Hotmail.com. I forget if the site it was pointed to was amazon.com or .co.uk, but it was definitely at one of the Amazon sites.
Cheers,
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I work for Microsoft and am therefore posting anonymously. While this was not done on purpose, it was by a ad exec at Microsoft and not a decision by Microsoft. That ad exec has since been let go.
Imagine having rights to read all the email to *@hotmail.co.uk.
You tell me how "whilst" differs from "while," and I'll stop calling you a pretentious jackass.
It's because she doesn't want her BOFH husband reading all her mail. Especially the steamy love notes from her Latin Lover, Juan Carlos.
Please god, let this be true!!
Yes. Contrary to the Reg's article, I didn't "sign it over to Microsoft", I simply paid their outstanding invoice.
.co.uk domains get tossed back in the pool quicker, and the person actually did buy the domain. Part of the story is that they were trying to contact Microsoft to transfer it back to them and Microsoft wouldn't pay attention. It's difficult to be a good samaritan some days...
As I explained it to reporters at the time, if I went and made your mortgage payment I wouldn't own your house.
This particular case seems to be different than the passport.com case, though. It looks like the
Do you have ESP?
I once accidently typed micosoft.com And yes, it was a porn site.
Registering misspellings of popular sites seems to be an easy way of getting traffic.
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Domain Name:
hotmail.co.uk
Registrant:
Microsoft Corporation
Registrant's Agent:
Dark Marketing Ltd [Tag = DARKUK]
URL: http://www.darkmarketing.com
Who would have ever believed that Microsoft would go over to the dark side?
I'm old enough to remember when discussions on Slashdot were well informed.
ya know... how can the world expect MS to actually provide secure code, and meet their own Trusted Computing goals, when they cant even keep their registered domains...
I personally dont use hotmail, but if I were a hotmail user, at least in teh UK, I would be outraged.
Just imagine the hilarity that would ensue if the guy who registered the domain put up a fraudulent hotmail site... he would have access to all those users email, passwords, probably even passport info... in a nutshell, all the stuff Microsoft says is secured and protected by their staff and software.
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Google cache of it is here
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Honestly, who does use Hotmail anyway?
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Worryingly, no one in the UK could deal with the matter so it was up to the US to sort things out.
Nobody in MS's UK division has the authority to reimburse $35?!?! Now that's what I call some serious centralized cash management!
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Microsoft forgets to put out this week's recycling bin
Microsoft misses the rinse cycle
Microsoft forgets to buy lottery ticket this week
Microsoft misses the ice cream truck
anything else?
Well, spending $7,000 to obtain a net result of $500 isn't too effective...
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I don't see how this can happen. Network Solutions bugs the crap out of me to renew mine well in advance. They've been sending me renewal notices for a couple of months now for domains I have that will need to be renewed by March and May of 2004!
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Maybe they just didn't get around to it? Afterall, they could have just sued anyone that picked it up in the meantime. They probably have more lawyers than they do security people.
WURD!!
Stupid, dumb, dumb, dumb. On the one hand, Microsoft has more lawyers than God. For another, it's just wrong to register a name with the express intention of screwing someone else. And lastly, it's definied by ICANN as registering a domain in bad faith.
And now you know.
They were trying to renew the domain, but IE kept crashing :D
"Whilst" is, strictly speaking, past tense. For example "I like to eat tacos while playing my gameboy" / "When I was young, I liked eating tacos whilst playing on my gameboy".
Not that you have ever called me a pretentious jackass, but I tohught you might like to know.
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Whenever my domain is "about" to expire netSol sends me tons of crap, both email and snail mail. Granted about to expire means sending me junk now when my domain expires in april. Only because i did a two year contract and then stupidly waited until the last minute to renew am I not on a cheaper reseller.
wtf are they thinking?! i mean, if M$ doesnt like the UK... TOUGH! if you dont like a country just because they know what open source has to offer doesnt mean that a greed-driven corporation should just *forget* to renew a domain... sheesh...
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$35 = 21.08GBP at $1.66 = 1GBP BBC Exchange rates
The above does not include commission charges or a buy/sell spread, so 25UKP would be better.
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I'm all for shadenfreude, but isn't it easier for us to just ignore Microsoft's failings and worry about more important things?
Or the domain would be up for auction by now, without the possibility of you being able to transfer it to another registrar: www.suit-u-sir.com
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No way. Urban Legend. Nobody has details. Bad doggy, no +1 Interesting for you!
Bad plan; one phrase: ICANN trademark resolution policies suck.
Better to play nice; if the lawyers come out it'll get uglyl, and not for Microsoft.
You seem to have invented a new method of karma whoring, just reply to people's .sigs. I like it. Funny moderators.
Thanks for the explaination, by the way.
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Kudos to squiggleslash for the wonderful HHGTG reference!
What I want to know is why would anyone in their right mind actually do M$ a favour? The 'good samaritan' should have at least made Gates and Co. pay up big for their domain back.
Long live Tux!
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..but at $1.50 you would have 23.33UKP - you used $2 = 1UKP
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Stop digging!
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Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.
I'm waiting for this sentence to be real funny tomorrow - when this story is being posted again.
you could spread the word of goatse...... think of teh people and the new trend that would start
Unfortunately, the AP department deals with things like Approved Vendor Lists and Purchase Orders. Upon receiving the invoice and not being able to correlate it to either of these lists, it goes off to invoice purgatory, where it sits until somebody squawks and gets the invoice paid.
"I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismometer." -Ken Kesey
The "Good Samaritan" idiom is racist from the start. The meaning of the phrase stems from a presumption that all Samaritans (whose descendents happen to be modern-day Palestinians) would sooner hasten the Jew's death than render aid. The fact that a Samaritan did render aid to the Jew in the story is such a noteworthy event, so completely unprecedented and unexpected, that "THE" Good Samaritan becomes a mythological singularity.
The implication of the story at Luke 10:30-37 is that the theives that the man ran into were Samaritans, and that robbing and stabbing and leaving him for dead was exactly the sort of treatment a Jew could expect from Samaritans on the road to Jericho. Then two Jews saw him and left him for dead, and it was a Samaritan who saved him.
The story, updated to a modern context, should be something like this:
A man from Jerusalem was driving to Jericho. Palestenian soldiers halted his car. When they saw that he was a Jew, they pulled him from his car, shot him, blew up his car with a grenade, and left him for dead. Some time after, as he clung to life, a UN jeep passed him on the road, but the soldiers did not stop to render aid or even investigate. Later, a group of tourists passed by the other direction, and also regarded the dying man as part of the scenery.
Finally, a Palestinian man happened on the scene, took pity on the man, took him to a doctor, and even helped him pay for a hotel room until he gets back on his feet.
And the moral of this story is, "Not all Palestinians will wontonly murder any Jew: most of them will, but there was one who didn't."
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I did go and skim through the pages linked to, but for some reason I thought it was microsoft.com as well that had this problem. I guess not.
That's what bookmarks are for, geez. I work with people who insist on trying to remember all the staging and live URLs for all the web sites we work on; meanwhile I have a nicely organized bookmarks list so I don't have to.
It doesn't mean much now, it's built for the future.
They go to such lengths to ignore email from anyone who's not paying $150 per incident. I bet they even use a whitelist. Everyone not on the list gets blackholed. Registrars aren't going to pay them or drive to Redmond to tell them they have to renew their domains. If the people they do business with can't get heard, I doubt customers can either.
Plus there's no reason for them to be registering their sites for such short periods of time. They should be buying domains for like 10 years at a time.
I'm no expert in whois or anything. but maybe someone can shed some light on what this means:
kalin@nubain:~$ whois aol.comWhois Server Version 1.3
Domain names in the
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net
for detailed information.
AOL.COM.SAYS.HARASS.SOFTY797.FOR.SUBVERTER.NET
AOL.COM.RAPED.SUBVERTER.NET
AOL.COM.IS.N0T.AS.1337.AS.GULLI.COM
AOL.COM.IS.0WNED.BY.SUB7.NET
AOL.COM.AINT.GOT.AS.MUCH.FREE.PORN.AS.SECZ.COM
AOL.COM
To single out one record, look it up with "xxx", where xxx is one of the
of the records displayed above. If the records are the same, look them up
with "=xxx" to receive a full display for each record.
>>> Last update of whois database: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 06:25:08 EST
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Miscrosoft todo list:
1. Fix bugs in IE CSS support
2. Develop a hack proof Web Server
3. Kill Linux
4. Purchase OS X machines
5. Fire guy that photos our loading docks
6. Register all htomail domains
7. Breakfast at tiffanies
8. Laundry
9. Supplies computers to 3rd world countries that don't even have electricity.
10. Sleep
(+1 Funny) only if I laugh out loud.
The clown that registered this domain used a email@hotmail.co.uk address for renewal notification, and just perhaps this said individual was on vacation, sick, or got fired until today / yesterday. Obviously he wouldn't be able to retrieve the email stating he needed to renew?
Yeah I know it's a dumb theory. Flamers and Trolls take your best shots.
this wouldn't be a problem if Microsoft had complete control over DNS, or the whole internet.
There's a point there somewhere. Hell if I know what it is, though.
[I suppose if the President of the U.S. was arrested for drunk driving and CNN decided to report on it, that that would be "pathetic" and "anti-Bush?"] Actually -- have you seen the state of political commentary these days?
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"I was not aware that reporting the news counts as bashing."
lol, since when does this website ever just 'report the news'? Anything dealing with MS is almost always something derogatory here. Any excuse to point out any negatives about this company is this site's 'news'. Not to mention a generous peppering of often ill-informed, sometimes completely ignorant, sarcastic remarks by so-called 'editors'. Then follows the scores of tired, redundant insults and euphemisms which can only be described as "Anti-MS". The one or two dissenting opionins are usually quickly crushed by overly-sensitve panty-girl moderators. Did I leave anything out?
The fact that MS didn't renew a domain name and that this caused no problems at all is somehow some great front page news story? This is pathtic news given this site's past record of legendary anti-ms FUD-slinging. Fact of the matter is anything deragatory towards MS is treated as front page news here, and you know it...
I was the domain renewal guy at Microsoft. You know there's a lot of domains to keep track of.
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As for why it's news worthy, it's news worthy because MS made this mistake BEFORE, in 1999, with the UNITED STATES Hotmail. Regardless of the fact that the company is Microsoft that is both hilarious and pathetic.
It's difficult to be a good samaritan some days...
;)
Come on now, it's hard to get a giant's attention when you're just a gnat buzzing in the wind.
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Well, that is in interesting explanation. Too bad it is incorrect. Search through some dictionaries, and you will find that roughly half consider "whilst" to be anarchaic form of while, and the other half state it is primarily used in British English.
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You'd think that if they're using Outlook, they could put "Remember to renew all your domain names" in their Calendar.... But maybe the Hotmail folks are using Hotmail instead.
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It's a "which side of the pond you're on" thing. When they forgot to renew passport.com, that was a fuck-up; when they forgot to renew hotmail.co.uk it was a cock-up.
quod erad demonstrandum = which was to be proved.
1) Forget to renew domain
2) Let someone else renew it for you
3) ???
4) PROFIT!!!
Seems like a gnat buzzing in the wind, taking Microsoft's pants with it. You'd think they'd take notice.
"Ah, this all explains why Slashdot decided TO REPORT the fact that the Linux kernel almost got backdoored yesterday. Thanks for the fucking enlightenment."
Who even mentioned Linux here? This shows your tunnel-visioned, polarized view. Please stay on topic, honey. You seem to be suggesting that since negative press was also reported about something that you percieve to be the opposite of MS, that an anti-ms slant here doesn't exist.
Give me a break. Bad Linux/Apple/BSD/etc. press is handled quite a bit differently than bad ms press.
"Tohught" is, strictly speaking, past tense.
most important point:
11. Profit!
You can't handle the truth.
What a wasted opportunity for a perfect "Ask Slashdot" question. I could see it now: "Ok, so I now have in my possession a rather popular domain name, passport.com, and I'm wondering what to do with it? Any
Surely that sound have read "you can only legally take back domain names that were hijacked by steroid abusing circus clowns if you're a bunch of Tree huggin' hippies"
:-)
Stupid. Not funny. Stupid.
When PriceWaterHouseCoopers decided to change their name to Introducing Monday (!!) they never bothered to register introducingmonday.co.uk. So somebody else did.
I think that the real issue here is that it's impossible to contact anyone important at a large company like Microsoft. Suppose I discovered that one of their domains just expired, or I found a new security hole in IE, or found out the identity of someone inside Microsoft who had been "leaking" builds of Longhorn, or something like that. What do I do? All of their public telephone numbers and email addresses get routed to minimum-wage drones who wouldn't understand what I'm talking about, much less even have the authority to contact somebody who does.
In the specific case of security holes, Microsoft has repeatedly complained when people publish exploits without contacting them first, and yet in many cases the researcher who found the problem had been trying to contact Microsoft for weeks without getting any response.
I suppose the best way I could think of might be to send email to individual Microsoft employees I know of who might be willing to listen - there are some who post regularly to public newsgroups and mailing lists (and even Slashdot!) and one of them might pay attention. But how long would it take them to figure out who to contact to fix the problem?
Not that it's better in many other large companies. Anyone know of any large corporations where they're actually handling this well?
11. Take over world
12. Contact Arthur Murray Dance Studio re: Mr. Ballmer
13. Make Clippy more annoying
14. Fix ToDo List bug in Outlook
15. Fix ToDo List bug in Outlook
16. Make new version of Visual Basic that is incompatible with all previous versions
17. Build DeathStar
18. Collect Underpants
19. ?
20. Profit!!!
HEre is the website where you can find info about the company that purchaced the check on ebay.
:)
As for your username... nothing I can do to find it
Cigarettes are generally burned (or placed behind the ear at a rakish angle). UKians sometimes refer to this usage.
In the olden days homosexuals (and witches and heretics) were burned. USians seems to want to keep that memory alive.
That is why I consider that word to be a meaningful (i.e. serious) insult, like for example asking a Jew to get "disinfected" (or whatever the german word was).
slashdot.org was registered on 05-Oct-1997, expired on 05-Oct-2003 and was not renewed until 08-Oct-2003. So there were two days when /. "forgot" to renew.
/.
Irony, thy name is
I work for RussianHistory.org and am therefore posting anonymously. While this was not done on purpose, it was by a sole employee, and not a decision by RussianHistory. That employee has since been let go.
you know how many hits I wouldn't gotten?!
Hardly any; your annual bandwidth quota would get exceded in a very short amount of time. Assuming your server could handle the traffic more than a few seconds. Any idea how many people read their mail from hotmail every day?
95% of all computers are trusted to a manufacturer to cant get their shit together enough to remember to re-register their domain name, not ONCE but TWICE!
And to think people "rely" on this company for mission critical applications... absolutly wonderfull.
And, let's just say that you can no longer get VNC for Mac OS X at osxvnc.com either....
- "That's just the kind of fuzzy-headed liberal thinking that leads to being eaten."
The same happens in Brazil (com.br).
I see the error messages all the time in our mail servers. I guess it's easier for millions of users to see the mail error, figure it out that the domain is wrong and re-send the message than some admins to do the same and configure the mx records apropriately...
Goto www.myrealbox.com for a rock solid email account the is spamless.
My 2 bits
This brings up the question of filtering websites. There are a lot of filters available that filter out adult sites for those who want to do that. My problem is that when I am looking for porn I often get sidetracked with news, weblogs, statistics, speeches, advertising, political websites, and other insignificant things that I would like to filter out. Hasn't someone built a proxy that will filter out all this extraneous information so I can focus on the important things on the web?
Or a bunch of extremist animal lovin' hippies
Netcraft confirms the fact that hotmail.co.uk was running Linux-Apache combo. It's also saying the domain hotmail.co.uk "Failed to resolve hostname" since 6-Nov-2003. Netcraft on hotmail.co.uk
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10 years from now. We can only hope:)
- People who change ISPs frequently
- Or people who used to change ISPs frequently and used hotmail, and now continue to use hotmail because everyone knows their email address
- Easy way to avoid viruses / worms
- easy to create multiple accounts to register at websites, shop, etc.
The question should be: why NOT use free webmail services? Less control & organization of your email. Lack of integration with desktop email clients(I think Outlook 2k+ can dl mail from hotmail).
I had a similar instance with motorola, their asp page was broken one day and gave away the filename to the include with their database passwords, which was readable via the web.
I called their tech support number after not being able to find any other way to contact them and explained it to a very slow lady. I guess it worked because the next afternoon it was fixed.
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Money for nothing, pix for free
You mean:
0. Profit!
They could have offered me money, sexual favours, anything but id cling to that domain name through every court in the land. That and I'd redirect it to gnu.org or linux.com.
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Yeah, it's the past tense in British English. Maybe it doesn't apply in the US.
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Well, the Cambridge dictionary only says that "whilst" is a formal UK version of "while". It says nothing about tense. I would think they of all people would understand British English.
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Someone paid for it again? They're speculating in it, those cheap Microsoft bastards!
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