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Microsoft Forgets To Renew Hotmail.co.uk

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the whoops dept.

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."

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  1. Good Samaritan.. by epiphani · · Score: 4, Funny

    Good Samaritan my foot.

    "Hey, I save this domain for you. It'll only cost you $60,000".

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    1. Re:Good Samaritan.. by Rude+Turnip · · Score: 4, Funny

      That, or the individual has a Hotmail account and couldn't afford to lose access to his mail.

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    2. Re:Good Samaritan.. by EMH_Mark3 · · Score: 3, Funny

      So he pays for a domain but he's too cheap to pay for a POP3 address? Right.

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  2. Such an opportunity by freerangegeek · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  3. Right/left? by grasshoppa · · Score: 4, Funny

    Right hand, this is left hand, come in, over.

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  4. Re:They're very lucky by anonymous+loser · · Score: 5, Funny

    How could you pass up a name like hotmail for a gay porn site?

  5. Not a shining review... by siphoncolder · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... for Microsoft Outlook's "Reminder" function.

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  6. Forget the goatse.cx guy.. by Shenkerian · · Score: 4, Funny

    Imagine having rights to read all the email to *@hotmail.co.uk.

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  7. Re:They're very lucky by Tim+C · · Score: 4, Funny

    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...

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  8. Re:They're very lucky by prof187 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  9. Time for a dupe on this one :) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  10. Need a TODO list by SomeOtherGuy · · Score: 5, Funny

    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

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  11. Filters? by commodoresloat · · Score: 4, Funny

    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?