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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. You'd think.. by rylin · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You'd think MS would be clever enough to use a registrar that supports auto-renewal. Like any tucows reseller.

  2. They're very lucky by JoshuaDFranklin · · Score: 5, Insightful
    They are very lucky that it's not a porn site now, like russianhistory.org (not href for obvious reasons) and many others.

    Or maybe the porn squatters wouldn't touch it, considering that there might be a public outcry.