It seems that forgetting to renew you domain is the latest trend in e-media. First Google.de drops the ball, and now someone over at Curret.tv blundered and forgot to renew the domain. Perhaps this is the latest in linkbait. Nonetheless, as Froosh over at Hip Mojo reports:

I am not sure what Current.tv is, frankly, I know it’s backed by former VP Al Gore. [...]

Anyway, so I head over to current.tv and noticed a domain-parked website. Odd. The Alexa ranking of 20,000 or so suggests something is off.



What happened? Did Current.tv take a cue from Al Gore and fall asleep at the wheel? Looks like it. Worst off, why has no one noticed? Man, if there’s one thing worst that a slip up like that is no one actually noticing, or caring.
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Let’s dig deeper, ah yes, head off to Register.com to see when the URL expires.

Ah yes, some dude forgot to renew the URL. I’ll email him.

Smith Forte (webadmin@currentmedia.com) +1.4159958200 Fax: Current TV, LLC 118 King Street San Francisco, CA 94107 US

Technical Contact:

Todd Holley (webadmin@currentmedia.com)
+1.4159958200
Fax:
Current TV, LLC
118 King Street
San Francisco, CA 94107
US

Registrant Contact:

Smith Forte (webadmin@currentmedia.com)
+1.4159958200
Fax:
Current TV, LLC
118 King Street
San Francisco, CA 94107
US

Status: Locked

Name Servers:
dns1.name-services.com
dns2.name-services.com
dns3.name-services.com
dns4.name-services.com
dns5.name-services.com

Creation date: 27 Jan 2005 15:24:02
Expiration date: 27 Jan 2007 15:24:02

Don’t worry, before Al Gore sends those guys to Iraq, remember one thing Big Al: it happens to the best of ‘em: MSFT’s Passport, Google.de, and even, yes, yours truly (though that was not my fault, I swear!)

If this is some kind of new linkbait strategy a-la-there's-no-such-thing-as-bad-press, it's too bad it's not as readily available to the smaller sites that would really need it. Just no one would notice or care if they dropped the ball like this.