Thursday, September 27, 2007

oops! someone forgot to renew their domain!

On one of my little journeys round the web today, came to the Universal Music Groups job page (yes, i am job hunting, and no, i wouldn't mind working for "the man"). Clicked to their US based jobs, cool. Clicked thru to see what international opportunities might exist and . . . BINGO! someone forgot to renew the domain. doh!
see for yourself - go here http://new.umusic.com/Jobs.aspx and click outside the US.
The domain umicareers.com is now reverted to register.com
which is double funny. cause if you haven't heard, register.com is dead (or about to be any second). i've moved my domains from there to another registrar, and i know there has been a mass exodus of others as well. so someone at Universal forgot to renew, or got caught in the register.com renewal hell. and now according to ICANN, register.com took the domain umicareers.com! which is stunning. perhaps they are planning to steal domain names, backorder them, or otherwise acquire a catalog of domain names and then ransom them off to pay their debts. amazing story if people have to compete and bid against their domain registrar for domain names!

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