The website SOE.com by the Sony Online Entertainment went down recently. Sony forgot to renew a key domain name, SonyOnline.net which resulted in an outage on its popular Sony Online Entertainment game network found at SOE.com.
Although SOE.com did not expire but its nameservers are set to SonyOnline.net. When the latter went down, so did SOE.com
John Smedley, President of Sony Online Entertainment, apologized on Twitter.
The WhoIS records say that SonyOnline.net expired on May 26, 2014. Network Solutions finally suspended the domain name this way, leading to the outage.
Although SOE.com did not expire but its nameservers are set to SonyOnline.net. When the latter went down, so did SOE.com
John Smedley, President of Sony Online Entertainment, apologized on Twitter.
The WhoIS records say that SonyOnline.net expired on May 26, 2014. Network Solutions finally suspended the domain name this way, leading to the outage.