Failure to Renew Domain Disrupts E-Mail at Post (thanks to Chris Scroen!)
Yes, in our finely-tuned, instant access, send-it-around-the-freakin'-world-with-the-click-of-a-mouse global village, ya still gotta pay your bills, no? Apparently someone at the Washington Post got ahead of themselves and hit the 19th hole a wee bit early.
E-mail communication to and from The Washington Post was disrupted yesterday after its washpost.com Internet address was shut down because the company failed to renew its $35 annual registration.
The outage did not affect the ability of readers around the world to read the Post's news Web site, which resides at a separate "domain," washingtonpost.com. But the newspaper's journalists and other employees, who rely on e-mail for communication with sources, advertisers and other clients, were without it for part of the day after washpost.com was shut down.
The newspaper explained the problem to readers today in a note published on Page A2. According to a separate prepared statement, the newspaper "inadvertently allowed the washpost.com domain to expire. External e-mail was disrupted for hours. The domain name was immediately renewed."
Somewhere, Katherine Graham is spinning in her grave....
