Google Forgot to Renew Google.de
Apparently Google, which is a domain registrar, is not to good remembering to renew it’s own domains… This week it dropped the domain Google.de and someone else grabbed it.
Luckily (for Google) this person just handed it back to them, this is not before he made a screencap of the lost domain…
Goneo called us with the full story from its end. The google.de domain changed hand three times last night, a spokesman said.
A request to take over the domain was placed with Goneo about a week ago. The firm automatically placed a request with German domain registry DENIC (the equivalent of Nominet), which put the request to Google’s German provider. The provider did not respond in the first instance, and ignored a second approach from DENIC.
According to procedure, DENIC then approved the request on Monday evening. Goneo became aware of the registration, and arranged with Google and DENIC to have it transferred back.
Unfortunately, somebody else had made an application to register it too, through another domain company, which had also been ignored, so it was transferred to them first.
Google finally took possession its German digs this morning.
[via TechCrunch & TheRegister]
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