Microsoft was busy covering up an almighty cock-up last night after forgetting to renew its hotmail.co.uk domain name.
It's about as high a profile domain cock-up as you'll see, but not the first time MS has failed to renew a pretty critical domain.
There's a simple lesson for all of us - renew your domains in plenty of time. For .UK domains as in this case, renewal notices are sent to the organisation's contact address as shown on the WHOIS record - keep the record up-to date and don't ignore the renewal notices (and the 'pending deactivation' notices sent later) sent through the post by Nominet.
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DaveN
I didn't know Hotmail had localized TLD extensions...
I've no doubt MS would have recovered the domain anyway, but it could've been fun in the meantime.:)
Was it actually used by UK people or just registered
I'd never noticed moltar - most likely just registered.
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Shak
We've got email stacked up on our servers addresses to hotmail.co.uk and to msn.co.uk email addresses.
Regards,
PRAVIN
It's a painful, annoying and potentially very costly thing to happen. Anything that reminds people of the importance of renewal is good in my book, hence the post.
R.
