Reports are coming in from Germany that Google.de was down “for many hours” yesterday, and has now gone live again. We’re trying to confirm the reason, but it appears to be because Google forgot to renew the Google.de domain name. It expired and someone registered it. While the site was down the site showed a standard domain name registrar parked page (probably including Google Ads).
Domain name management can be tricky - email renewal notices can often get lost because employees have left the company. A number of registrars specialize in handling large company domain names to make sure this kind of thing doesn’t happen. Google uses one of those services, MarkMonitor, for at least its Google.com domain name. If Mark Monitor was also managing their .de domain name it is a serious black mark on their record.
I want to stress that this is an unconfirmed story at this point. If anyone has any additional information, please pass it on. A screen shot of the site when it was down would be ideal.
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And google reccomends you register your domain names for at least 5 - 10 years to improve your ranking.
Just think, for a few choice hours……the world would not be able to search for schizer videos…….
Does anyone else find it funny that the screenshot above is using Netscape!?
I didn’t think that browser was used by anyone…. I know it still exists but honestly who would use it?
Seems they have a different Registration System in Germany
http://couchblogging.com/index.....;Itemid=36
I find it hard to believe the domain simply expired - it seems like something a hacker might have done to the DNS
The domain is working fine now - if someone else had registered it would it not have taken days in court to get it back?
I wonder if google forget to renew their google.com domain. lol.
I think that’s funny as hell. As I said on my blog, its always those pesky little details that screw us up. I also said that I would not be at all surprsed if Google was currentl giving a certain employee the Chinese water torture,
someone took over without authorities…
Great article. Definately usefull. Thanks a lot to the author.
You sure have some rules soeren onez
Anyway I doubt somebody got rich from purchasing the domain meanwhile.
good
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