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I remember a Slashdot article back in the 90s about a guy who renewed hotmail.com for Microsoft when they accidentally let it expire. The guy needed to get to his email but couldn't and he quickly discovered the problem and fixed it for them.
http://www.npr.org/2014/04/01/297690717/why-doesnt-america-r...
This sounds like some kind of PR stunt for google domains.
[1] http://www.doublewide.net/
[2] http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=at_jl...
I remember a Slashdot article back in the 90s about a guy who renewed hotmail.com for Microsoft when they accidentally let it expire. The guy needed to get to his email but couldn't and he quickly discovered the problem and fixed it for them.
You mean the incident they mention in the article that was linked? http://www.npr.org/2014/04/01/297690717/why-doesnt-america-r...
Definitely a bug in Google domains. The real one expires 9/14/2020. https://who.is/whois/google.com/
What would happen if someone actually managed to move google.com to a non-google registrar account under their control? Would someone step in and just seize it back? Can you imagine the magnitude of client devices hitting the wrong server for gmail,android updates,chrome even for a few minutes?
google.com is under a registry lock, nobody can touch it without going through a security song and dance involving the registry (Verisign) and the registrar (MarkMonotor), so it's unlikely to happen. This looks like because Google's domain selling tool thought he bought the domain, he was authorized for the domain for all the rest of the Google tools, which is scary, but probably not earth shattering. Kind of depends…
What would happen if someone actually managed to move google.com to a non-google registrar account under their control? Would someone step in and just seize it back? Can you imagine the magnitude of client devices hitting the wrong server for gmail,android updates,chrome even for a few minutes?
That would be like buying the worlds biggest DDOS botnet holy cow.
Apparently this happened in 1999 with Microsoft's Passport.com as well [1], and again later with hotmail.co.uk [2]. While I understand that snafus like this can happen, I don't understand why the new owner would simply hand back the domain for essentially no compensation (especially in the case of hotmail.co.uk - this appeared to be a clean transfer of an expired domain). If they let the domain expire, it's fair game…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
You mean the incident they mention in the article that was linked? http://www.npr.org/2014/04/01/297690717/why-doesnt-america-r...
Nope. The details don't match not because GP has a bad memory but because it was a separate incident. Don't be a dick.
This sounds like some kind of PR stunt for google domains.
Why? Wouldn't that be a lousy PR stunt? Domain services are the keepers to your most prized possessions and Google's let someone buy their own domain creating this nebulous set of thoughts to where many might think this allowed the person to control google.com itself.