aol.com to expire

[davidthornton]

No you're all wrong!

I was right with passport.com

http://news.com.com/2100-1023-251500.html

"The company suffered a similar outage just over a year ago when it failed to pay a $35 registration fee for the domain name Passport.com. Passport.com, the authentication service for Hotmail, verifies usernames and passwords. A Linux programmer noticed the problem and paid the $35 registration fee for the domain name, and an embarrassed Microsoft later reimbursed him."

(5th paragraph from the end)

and more specifically:

http://news.com.com/2100-1023-234966.html?legacy=cnet

 

[boychik]

I just did a quick search on the hotmail.com renwal at google to jog my memory...

Microsoft sent the guy a $500.00 check, he auctioned it off at ebay.

See story

http://news.com.com/2100-1023-235734.html?tag=rn

 

[davidthornton]

Originally posted by boychik
I just did a quick search on the hotmail.com renwal at google to jog my memory...

Microsoft sent the guy a $500.00 check, he auctioned it off at ebay.

See story

http://news.com.com/2100-1023-235734.html?tag=rn

Even though the story headlines with 'Hotmail domain' (not hotmail.com), if you read it to the end it actually states that it was passport.com.

 

[alaneads]

haha, I talked on a board like this with the guy that paid Microsoft's registration fee, he didnt steal the domain, just paid for it. He saved them thousands and thousands of dollars in lost revenue, and they give him $500

 

[davidthornton]

Originally posted by alaneads
haha, I talked on a board like this with the guy that paid Microsoft's registration fee, he didnt steal the domain, just paid for it. He saved them thousands and thousands of dollars in lost revenue, and they give him $500

He couldn't have stolen it.

The domain didn't expire. It just went 'On Hold'. He renewed it so that it came back off hold and resolved again.