Banks forgot to renew domain registrations, knocking services offline

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Post by EdwardQ » Wed, Jul 31, 2013, 2:08 PM UTC

Banks forgot to renew domain registrations, knocking services offline
computerworlduk.com

Re: Banks forgot to renew domain registrations, knocking services offline

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Post by jrochkind1 » Wed, Jul 31, 2013, 2:29 PM UTC

is it just me who has this pop up ads that don't allow reading of the article?

Re: Banks forgot to renew domain registrations, knocking services offline

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Post by ambiate » Wed, Jul 31, 2013, 2:43 PM UTC

jrochkind1 wrote: post #2

is it just me who has this pop up ads that don't allow reading of the article?

If you look at the top right, squinting, there is a "CONTINUE TO SITE" link. It is grey on grey.

Re: Banks forgot to renew domain registrations, knocking services offline

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Post by balbaugh » Wed, Jul 31, 2013, 3:29 PM UTC

Same thing happened with Regions Bank back in April of this year.

Re: Banks forgot to renew domain registrations, knocking services offline

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Post by mhurron » Wed, Jul 31, 2013, 4:00 PM UTC

As much as you would like to think otherwise, Bank employees are just as incompetent as anyone else.

Re: Banks forgot to renew domain registrations, knocking services offline

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Post by rubinelli » Wed, Jul 31, 2013, 4:37 PM UTC

> Why large organisations cannot get domain registrations sorted is beyond me. For the costs concerned, auto-renewal is the safest bet.

Heh. If it was just a matter of auto-charging from a credit card it would be easy. But in a large company, you have multiple registrars, outdated billing information, acquisitions, different cost centers. It is incredibly easy to let one or two of your tens of thousands of domains to lapse.