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Club Penguin Site Goes Down After Disney Fails To Renew Domain

Posted: June 20, 2011

Club Penguin Domain

Popular children’s gaming site Club Penguin went down on Monday after it was revealed that The Walt Disney Company, owners of the site, failed to renew the company’s URL.

The sites domain expired one week ago (June 13) and was taken offline for a short period of time on Monday until Disney officials realized what had occurred.

For a short period of time some of the sites 12 million users were not able to log onto Club Penguin although Disney fixed the issue and most users are back online and playing the MMORG once again.

Perhaps it’s just my business sense, but if I was a Disney executive and I paid upwards of $700 million ($350 million cash and $350 million in performance incentives) for a website in 2007, I would have more than likely registered the domain for the next 100 years, a simple $1000 investment would have ensured my $700 million investment didn’t piss off my customers for such a stupid reason.

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Posted: June 20, 2011
James Johnson

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17 Archived Responses to “ Club Penguin Site Goes Down After Disney Fails To Renew Domain ”

  1. Fernando Rangel
    Jun 21, 2011

    como juego club penguin porque me sale esta tonteria

  2. I am furious!

  3. Same,I went on today and saw the clown and I was like OH NO!! I tried it again in like 10 minutes still didnt work. Im mad.

  4. I am reeaallly mad! I didn't even get to feed my puffle today! :(

  5. Offline for a short period of time… its been 12+ hours and still waiting! Try explaining that to 3 kids on summer vacation- one of which asks for her allowance in Club Penguin memberships!

  6. Christina Moll
    Jun 21, 2011

    i guess thats a good reason to get the kid out of the house instead of on the computer playing a game…thats what summer vacay is for!

  7. yeah, they go to boys and girls club during the day because i can't stand them when they get bored!

  8. how long is this down thing going to take I'm am totally pist.

  9. Jessica Flowers
    Jun 21, 2011

    Yikes I hope they get it running soon!! Sara loves club penguin!!

  10. at least kids will more active but it absolutely sucks what has happened.

  11. Anonymous
    Jun 21, 2011

    Its been more than 2 days but its still not running.

  12. DeAnte Chase
    Jun 22, 2011

    I was going to meet the band.

  13. club penguin works