What are the odds that people at google will forget to renew the name? And when does it expire? What would you do if you got it for one day?
Umm if (which i doubt) they forget to renew the domain they will get 45 days to renew it .. and after that they can just contact icann and get back thier domain easily
It doesn't have to be a big page, probably 5kb or so? just a few links. Or one could use it to DDoS someone he has hated forever Think about the possibilities
lol which ever parking network you use may just go down i doubt they will be able to handle such traffic
Registration Record ICANN Registrar: MARKMONITOR INC. Created: 1997-09-15 Expires: 2011-09-14 Who the hell is Markmonitor Inc? http://whois.domaintools.com/google.com
MarkMonitor was founded 1999, and has been an ICANN-accredited domain registrar since that time. More info here
MarkMonitor is a global leader in the fast-growing market for online corporate identity management and protection. Our solutions enable corporations and brand owners to address the significant and evolving threats made possible by the inherent openness and anonymity of the Internet, including online fraud, brand abuse, and unauthorized channels. http://icannwiki.org/MarkMonitor
Woah, I'd put up a 2 kb page saying: Please donate $1 by PayPal to keep the Google company alive. When I wake up next morning, I'd withdraw all the cash into my bank account, and go ebaying. ^^
Microsoft already forgot to renew some domain-names: As mentioned on theregister.co.uk, November 6, 2003: Microsoft was busy covering up an almighty cock-up last night (after forgetting to renew its hotmail.co.uk domain name. Despite being warned that the domain for its popular Web mail service was up for renewal, it seems Microsoft - or whoever had the task of managing its hotmail.co.uk domain - overlooked this vital piece of administration. As a result, last month Microsoft lost its claim to the domain and it was duly returned to the open market to be picked up by whomever fancied it Luckily, the domain was snapped up on the same day - October 23. The new owner - a good hearted soul - then proceeded immediately to contact Microsoft, inform the giant of its slip and arrange to hand back the domain. However, Microsoft didn't want to know. Despite phone calls and emails - and being fobbed off by Microsoft drones - our man behind this public-spirited deed was completely blanked by the software empire. Microsoft only took notice when The Register contacted the company yesterday afternoon to enquire why its hotmail.co.uk site was registered to a private individual. It was then we were told that the matter was under investigation and being "escalated". Worryingly, no one in the UK could deal with the matter so it was up to the US to sort things out. Of course, while Microsoft's spinstresses tried to stall for time, the company was busy scurrying behind the scenes to sort out this embarrassing episode. It managed to contact hotmail.co.uk's new owner, grovel at their mistake and sort out the mess. By all accounts, hotmail.co.uk will be returned in a few days. A spokeswoman for Nominet UK - the registry for all .uk domains - confirmed that hotmail.co.uk had failed to be renewed and was placed back into pool of available domains. For Nominet's part, she confirmed that "all the standard renewal procedures were followed regarding hotmail.co.uk". "I would like to remind companies and their agents that it is their responsibility to renew their domains," she said. Despite repeated attempts to seek comment from Microsoft, the software giant has failed to cobble together any form of statement that might shed light on this situation. In December 1999, Microsoft forgot to renew the domain name Passport.com, and so rendered its Hotmail service partially crippled. A Linux programmer, Michael Chaney, paid the $35 fee and promptly handed over ownership to Microsoft...