Popular location based social networking company forgets to renew its domain name.
Kudos to social networking site Foursquare, which freely admitted this morning on Twitter that it messed up and didn’t renew its domain name.
Based on the language of the tweet, it appears that Foursquare may have had an old credit card on file with domain name registrar GoDaddy. Or perhaps its email address in whois at [email protected] no longer worked.
Compare Foresquare’s admission with what happened when CrashPlan let its domain name expire. It blamed GoDaddy, and the falsehood that it was GoDaddy’s fault quickly spread across the web. Forgetting to renew a domain name is one of the most common reason major sites have outages.
Whatever the reason for Foresquare letting its domain name expire, it won’t have the same problem for at least another 10 years. It renewed the domain name until March 25, 2020.
Why dont they renew for 5yrs or simply 10 years?
i yesterday registered the mentioned above domain name, but i could not find it?
Trust me this domain did not drop,i never seen in in tdnam……..
i will say godaddy sucks, be careful. they let my domain expired. they didn’t even bother to send me not even one email to notify about it was expire and on the 43rd days from the expire date they just sold it, how conveninet was that. but i found i am not the only one
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Give-me-my-domain-back-Godaddy/149144308456114?created#!/profile.php?id=1148946292&ref=ts
@ Marta – they send out a ton of renewal notices. It must have been a problem with your email.
Bullshit if you did not receive at least 1 email PER DAY to remind you of renewing. That is a complete load of crap, I can’t even get rid of their spam let alone their daily reminders 2 months out – the kicker? THey still send them even after I pay up.