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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!
Mod Karma -1: I sed bad wurds. If I cep my mouf shut, I wud be at riyses.
Good Samaritan my foot.
"Hey, I save this domain for you. It'll only cost you $60,000".
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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 $35 was paid by Microsoft to retrieve them, the irony of making Microsoft pay those organizations would have been rich and wonderous.
Goatse.cx?
I mean, that would guarantee a response from Micro$oft....
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?
Right hand, this is left hand, come in, over.
Mod me down with all of your hatred and your journey towards the dark side will be complete!
How could you pass up a name like hotmail for a gay porn site?
Prehaps someone should just register hotmale.co.uk and point it to them
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Makes sense to me!
... for Microsoft Outlook's "Reminder" function.
i'm amazed that i survived - an airbag saved my life.
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.
Apparently you haven't been to hotmale.com Don't ask how I know this.
That's okay - these days, there's very little shame associated with not being able to type...
It's official. Most of you are morons.
Actually, I think your butterfly flapping its wings will only cancel out my butterfly if it is flapping 180 degrees out of phase with mine. Otherwise, me thinks that your butterfly and my butterfly may be additive, at least during various flapping cycles (if you are slightly out of phase with mine). YOU, with your flapping butterfly's wings, mis-timed in relation to mine is causing the drought in the Western USA and leading to the wildfire danger.
I had my butterfly timed so as to increase the precipitation this year and through the winter but you went and dicked it up in an attempt to cancel mine out (leading to a normal precip year). Instead, YOU are inducing an especially dry spell.
Shut down your butterfly dickweed!
In Bushworld, they struggle to keep church and state separate in Iraq as they increasingly merge the two in America.
A free copy of Microsoft Money and MSN!! Oh boy!!
They were trying to renew the domain, but IE kept crashing :D
Yeah, I have a friend who wanted to buy some rollerblades from Dick's Sporting Goods online. So naturally he goes to www.dicks.com. I think he's still scarred to this day.
My other sig is an import.
Miscosoft forgets to wash hands after using the toilet?
:)
By reading this signature you agree to not disagree with the post you just read.
Oops, guess posting as AC was a little pointless now :D
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.
"Microsoft has more lawyers than God"
God has NO lawyers. They all belong to Satan (i.e. Microsoft)!
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.
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.
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
akes you want to get www.freepornsexhereforyou.com and use it as a non-adult site.
that will teach them.
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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?
Microsoft has more lawyers than God
Only because no lawyers make it to heaven.