Domain Names Fiasco

Hot on the heel of the Advertlets case, here come another one… albeit on a smaller scale.

Poor Chee Kui of miriguy.com got caught unaware that his domain has expired… and it affected his clients under his web hosting reseller account. I guess this guy is pretty vocal about it.

(But, a hall of shame? Really?)

These incidents brought a few questions to mind:

Shouldn’t online service providers (like Advertlets) make sure their scripts are not designed to hijack the entire site of their publishers?
Why wouldn’t one subscribe to a domain name, and make the renewal automatic?
Is web hosting reseller a good business model? Is the margin good? Is the effort worth it?

I am sure there is a GREAT blogging topic here somewhere.

Update: I spoke too soon… here’s another one got hit because of hosting issues. Oh man!

January 9, 2008 | Filed Under General

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