Google Germany disappears
Doh! When your market cap is pushing $150 billion, and you're buying companies and adding new products on a daily basis, it's inevitable that a few administrative details will fall through the cracks - especially when your M.O. is to embrace chaos. For Google (GOOG), one of those details was Germany: TechCrunch reports -- and Google diva Marissa Mayer later confirmed -- that the Google.de homepage went down yesterday because the Google gang forgot to renew the domain.

Thus in the early hours of Tuesday morning, Google.de pointed to an ad for Internet host Goneo. In fact, The Register reports that somehow more than one opportunist swooped in to grab the domain, one of whom confessed he was simply illustrating to his girlfriend "how one of my domains had been taken over by somebody else with the Goneo ordering system." To prove he was a nice, Google-fearing geek, however, he gave the domain back without asking for compensation. (TechCrunch readers are shocked!)

To be fair to Marissa and crew, it seems the German domain name registration system is a bit complex, but The Browser is not sure which is less reassuring: Google being so disorganized or Germany failing at bureaucracy.
Posted by Oliver Ryan 9:53 AM 0 Comments comment | Add a Comment

To send a letter to the editor about The Browser, click hereTop of page

Got a news tip? Send it to The Browser


Most stock quote data provided by BATS. Market indices are shown in real time, except for the DJIA, which is delayed by two minutes. All times are ET. Disclaimer. Morningstar: © 2018 Morningstar, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Factset: FactSet Research Systems Inc. 2018. All rights reserved. Chicago Mercantile Association: Certain market data is the property of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. and its licensors. All rights reserved. Dow Jones: The Dow Jones branded indices are proprietary to and are calculated, distributed and marketed by DJI Opco, a subsidiary of S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and have been licensed for use to S&P Opco, LLC and CNN. Standard & Poor's and S&P are registered trademarks of Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC and Dow Jones is a registered trademark of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC. All content of the Dow Jones branded indices © S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC 2018 and/or its affiliates.

Most stock quote data provided by BATS. Market indices are shown in real time, except for the DJIA, which is delayed by two minutes. All times are ET. Disclaimer. Morningstar: © 2018 Morningstar, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Factset: FactSet Research Systems Inc. 2018. All rights reserved. Chicago Mercantile Association: Certain market data is the property of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. and its licensors. All rights reserved. Dow Jones: The Dow Jones branded indices are proprietary to and are calculated, distributed and marketed by DJI Opco, a subsidiary of S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and have been licensed for use to S&P Opco, LLC and CNN. Standard & Poor's and S&P are registered trademarks of Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC and Dow Jones is a registered trademark of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC. All content of the Dow Jones branded indices © S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC 2018 and/or its affiliates.