[chrissnell]

I remember a Slashdot article back in the 90s about a guy who renewed hotmail.com for Microsoft when they accidentally let it expire. The guy needed to get to his email but couldn't and he quickly discovered the problem and fixed it for them.

[fletchowns]

You mean the incident they mention in the article that was linked?

http://www.npr.org/2014/04/01/297690717/why-doesnt-america-r...

[jbellis]

Nope. The details don't match not because GP has a bad memory but because it was a separate incident. Don't be a dick.

[fletchowns]

Ah, maybe it was the passport.com incident that was mentioned in another comment. Fair enough!

[chrissnell]

It was the same.

http://www.doublewide.net/