All right, I don’t know what is worst, the fact that Current.tv [looks like they] lost their URL at current.tv or that they lost their URL and no one in the mainstream media, blogosphere, online video watchers or tech sector actually noticed.
I am not sure what Current.tv is, frankly, I know it’s backed by former VP Al Gore. Anyway, I just finished writing a business plan (12 months into operations, mind you) for WatchMojo.com. I realized that I should probably find out what Current.tv is in order to determine whether or not I should include it as a competitor. As a side note, I am of the strong belief that online-only video producers are not competitive at all, and here is my reasoning as to why.
Anyway, so I head over to current.tv and noticed a domain-parked website. Odd. The Alexa ranking of 20,000 or so suggests something is off.
I then venture over to Currenttv.com and indeed, that looks like what I recall Current.tv looking like. The only thing is Currenttv.com has an Alexa ranking of 315,000… hmm…
Maybe I’ve lost my mind and it was always Current.com, so let’s check. All right, that has an Alexa ranking of 640,000; stranger still.
What happened? Did Current.tv take a cue from Al Gore and fall asleep at the wheel? Looks like it. Worst off, why has no one noticed? Man, if there’s one thing worst that a slip up like that is no one actually noticing, or caring.
So I head back to Current.tv, click on the Alexa ranking to see what the screen grab shows:
Yep, that’s the screen grab from Current.tv…
Let’s dig deeper, ah yes, head off to Register.com to see when the URL expires.
Ah yes, some dude forgot to renew the URL. I’ll email him.
Smith Forte (webadmin@currentmedia.com)
+1.4159958200
Fax:
Current TV, LLC
118 King Street
San Francisco, CA 94107
US
Technical Contact:
Todd Holley (webadmin@currentmedia.com)
+1.4159958200
Fax:
Current TV, LLC
118 King Street
San Francisco, CA 94107
US
Registrant Contact:
Smith Forte (webadmin@currentmedia.com)
+1.4159958200
Fax:
Current TV, LLC
118 King Street
San Francisco, CA 94107
US
Status: Locked
Name Servers:
dns1.name-services.com
dns2.name-services.com
dns3.name-services.com
dns4.name-services.com
dns5.name-services.com
Creation date: 27 Jan 2005 15:24:02
Expiration date: 27 Jan 2007 15:24:02
Don’t worry, before Al Gore sends those guys to Iraq, remember one thing Big Al: it happens to the best of ‘em: MSFT’s Passport, Google.de, and even, yes, yours truly (though that was not my fault, I swear!)
Maybe I’ll use that Alexa chart, declining slope… but then again, “it’s not a competition, it’s a cooperation.”
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January 29th, 2007 at 10:31 am
It’s back up now, but someone should be fired.
January 29th, 2007 at 2:52 pm
I still don’t see it, might be because it will take 24 hours for all servers to propagate around the World. Not sure if fired is the way to go… I’d be more curious as to why no one noticed.
What does that say?
Anyway, I am sure it will be back up and no one will be canned, that is why I mentioned that it happens to the best of ‘em…
January 30th, 2007 at 8:59 am
Not Renewing Your Domain: Linkbait?…
It seems that forgetting to renew you domain is the latest trend in e-media. First Google.de drops the ball, and now someone over at Curret.tv blundered and forgot to renew the domain….
February 4th, 2007 at 7:44 pm
it’s current.com now
February 4th, 2007 at 7:45 pm
oh man, you knew that, sorry. i misread some of your entry…hah