Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
Back in September, IBM was left red-faced when its global load balancer and reverse DNS services fell over for 21 hours.
At the time, IBM blamed the outage on a third-party domain name registrar that was transferring some domains to another registrar. The sending registrar, IBM said, accidentally put the domains in a "hold state" that prevented them being transferred. As the load balancer and reverse DNS service relied on the domains in question, the services became inaccessible to customers.
IBM's now released an incident summary [PDF] in which it says "multiple domain names were mistakenly allowed to expire and were in hold status."
The explanation also reveals that the network-layer.net domain was caught up in the mess, in addition to the global-datacenter.com and global-datacenter.net domains that IBM reported as messed up in September.
It's unclear if IBM or its outsourced registrar was responsible for the failure to renew registration for the domains.
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(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday October 24 2017, @07:22PM (5 children)
. . . on the green site when microsoft.com expired, and some kind soul renewed it for them?
People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.
(Score: 3, Informative) by e_armadillo on Tuesday October 24 2017, @07:30PM (1 child)
Yeah, but I thought it was hotmail.com
"How are we gonna get out of here?" ... "We'll dig our way out!" ... "No, no, dig UP stupid!"
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday October 24 2017, @07:39PM
I think you are right and I am mis-rememberizing.
9 all-time domain expirations in Internet history [whoapi.com]
People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.
(Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Tuesday October 24 2017, @07:34PM (1 child)
Hotmail in 2003: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/11/06/microsoft_forgets_to_renew_hotmail/ [theregister.co.uk]
Passport/Hotmail in 1999: http://www.doublewide.net/ [doublewide.net]
Both times the renewal/registration was benevolent. They probably don't count on that anymore.
[SIG] 10/28/2017: Soylent Upgrade v14 [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday October 24 2017, @07:40PM
Thanks for the correction.
People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by zugedneb on Wednesday October 25 2017, @08:35AM
https://games.slashdot.org/story/14/07/16/2216207/sony-forgets-to-pay-for-domain-hilarity-ensues [slashdot.org]
old saying: "a troll is a window into the soul of humanity" + also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ajax