Please comment and let me know if you are having similar difficulties. Perhaps it is a temporary glitch, perhaps a network error, or maybe it is just my internet provider. It just seems odd to get the domain screen rather than an error if the site was simply down.
I will update if I can obtain any new information, or if the site suddenly reappears, or if I find out that it is just me.
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It’s actually pretty funny. There have been a few major companies than unknowingly didn’t renew their domain names in the past. I can’t remember specifically, but for some reason I want to say Sony or Motorola was one of them. What usually happens is the administrator who set up the domain leaves a company and no one thinks to change the email address on file at the registrar. All those renewal notices are auto-generated and if they bounce, no one’s the wiser.
ICANN policy should allow 30 days or so for Gen Con LLC to renew so I’d expect the site to be back up shortly. Sorry to burst anyone’s bubble if they thought they could get their hands on gencon.com and sell it back to GC. 🙂
It took a sec, but Microsoft forgot to renew one of the international Hotmail domains and Universal paid over $300 million for the MP3.com service and then forgot to renew…
Nope, not a mistake. Their domain expired on the 25th of April. Looks like the admins are asleep.
Yes, people are reporting similar troubles on Gen Con’s Facebook page, Considering the domain provider usually sends 500 emails when your domain is going to expire, and Gen Con probably generates a lot of traffic, it seems pretty odd.
It’s Back!
No, its not. I tried just now and got nothing. Unless I’m being dumb.
Me either; it’s still down but it’s possible the DNS is repopulating. Doubt it though…
Gen Con reps said on Facebook that it will take a few hours to come back completely. Right now I’m not having any problems getting there. I think they are having a few problems getting it to stay up.
Actually it’s the DNS populating across the various service providers. 🙂 I’m sure by the afternoon all should be well. Except we’ll be able to continue making fun of Gen Con about it!