Google.de Domain Name Hijacked

[mandy]

The most popular Internet search engine said Tuesday that its German Web site was unavailable temporarily after its domain name was reregistered by a hacker. In place of Google's search form, users saw a Web site hosted by German Internet service provider Goneo. It took 12 hours before Google corrected the problem and its domain name was registered properly...

It remained unclear how nobody had noticed the unidentified hijacker when the domain -- the ownership of the Internet address -- was reregistered late Monday...

full article: http://www.technewsworld.com/story/55313.html

[mandy]

Google forgot to renew another domain name:

Google TV was unavailable today, its website address redirecting you to a page that contains only domain adverts. It seems like the company fixed the issue but this is not the first problem with a Google domain. Recently, multiple internet users reported that Google Germany domain was not available from specific locations in the world, users being redirected to a domain for sale page.

Amanda, a user that commented the article posted on Googlified, sustained that she is an employee for Current and explained the issue: “Hello! I happen to work for Current. It’s a long story, but the registrar that owns our domain allowed it to expire without contacting us. We’ve set things right with them, and within the next 24 hours everything should be resolved and working fine.”...

full article: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Lo...5764.shtml