[Forbo]

> >According to the Open Data Córdoba group (which is dedicated to tracking expired Argentine domains) Google's domain had not expired and, in fact, the expiration date was in July. But the group too was unable to explain what had happened or why.

Ouch. I think someone's going to have some explaining to do in the post-mortem.

[packetslave]

Yeah, MarkMonitor is not going to have a good time on this one (they're the company Google, and a bunch of other high-profile companies) use for domain management and tracking. They're supposed to prevent this kind of thing from happening.

[emmelaich]

It's not known whether Google or the AR NIC made the mistake.

[ehsankia]

If the expiration was in July, how could it possibly have been Google's mistake that it got sold months before it expired?

[f3rnando]

It's not known whether it was a mistake.

[kccqzy]

MarkMonitor has been purchased by OpSecSecurity: https://www.opsecsecurity.com/resource/press-release/opsec-s...

I wonder if this has anything to do.

[iancarroll]

MarkMonitor's domain registrar component was not acquired (per the link).