We have seen big corporate forgets (I would rather call 'em blunders) like 'Microsoft forgets to renew hotmail.co.uk. This time it's another corporate giant, "Toys 'R' Us" acting stupid: As of today, their main website's domain (toysrus.com) is set to expire in less than 60 days. While it's a business norm that large corporations (and even small businesses) renew their websites' domains several years in advance, but Toys 'R' Us has neglected their valuable asset.
It's likely that they would renew their domain before it actually expires on October 7 2009, but you never know! If they only scramble to renew when the trash hits the fan on October 7th, then their website will definitely remain offline for a while, as Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) never condones expired domains even if these are owned by corporate clients. This "small" mistake can make Toys R Us loose a bunch of million dollars in online sales revenue. These loses can even extend if they face a nameserver change due to domain expiry as Nameserver changes take up to 72 hours to propagate throughout the internet, hence their website may remain offline for several days. If that happens then we should be keeping an eye on their financial statements for the next quarter.
Monday, September 7, 2009
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Breaking News: Google Reveals that Yahoo is Infecting User Computers with Trojan Viruses!
Google has launched a service that can check websites for viruses and other malicious software.
To check a website, all you need to do is to append the website address next to the '=' sign in URL below and Google will let you know if that site has (or had) malicious software or viruses on it:
http://google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=
Tonight when I checked Yahoo on this service, Google told me that Yahoo.com is infecting its users' computers with 49 Trojan Viruses and 5 Scripting Exploits. I am deeply astounded by that and It's very difficult for most of us to believe that information. But anyone can check it here
I would request Carol Bartz, et al, if they would mind to explain this scenario to the millions of Yahoo users worldwide?
To check a website, all you need to do is to append the website address next to the '=' sign in URL below and Google will let you know if that site has (or had) malicious software or viruses on it:
http://google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=
Tonight when I checked Yahoo on this service, Google told me that Yahoo.com is infecting its users' computers with 49 Trojan Viruses and 5 Scripting Exploits. I am deeply astounded by that and It's very difficult for most of us to believe that information. But anyone can check it here
I would request Carol Bartz, et al, if they would mind to explain this scenario to the millions of Yahoo users worldwide?
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