Antec forgot to renew their domain name.

CougTek

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Go to www.antec.com.

This is shameful. How could a big company like Antec, one of the biggest computer case distributor, let its website go down like this? Someone, somewhere, isn't doing the job he's paid for.
 

ddrueding

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It happened to hotmail.com at least once, and one of the apple domains as well. I must admit, it has happened to me (well, my clients) a few times. It's unfortunate and annoying, but hardly shameful.
 

Mercutio

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It's happened to Hotmail.com TWICE. Two years in a row.
The second time it happened, Microsoft gave the guy who renewed it for them a check for $1000, which he sold on Ebay for considerably more (close to $10k) which he then gave to charity.
 

Handruin

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I was a couple days away from renewing SF. I did 2 years and forgot/procrastinated/forgot/renewed.
 

CougTek

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SR's MBF happened on December 28 2001 IIRC and you created SF two weeks later. Up to six months ago, I had all the e-mails sent to me while the "twelves" were discussing the future of the community.
 

LunarMist

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Yes, I was talking to Tim Z (Holywood) that evening and when he told me about the disaster I was shocked and saddened. What a dark day that was!
 

ddrueding

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Indeed. I joined not long after, but it was many months before I posted here regularly. I stuck around at SR for quite a while, then realized I wasn't hanging around at any forums, and felt that should change, so I popped in here.
 
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