Club Penguin Site Goes Down After Disney Fails To Renew 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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Jun 21, 2011
como juego club penguin porque me sale esta tonteria
Jun 21, 2011
I am furious!
Jun 21, 2011
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.
Jun 21, 2011
I am reeaallly mad! I didn't even get to feed my puffle today!
Jun 21, 2011
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!
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!
Jun 21, 2011
yeah, they go to boys and girls club during the day because i can't stand them when they get bored!
Jun 21, 2011
how long is this down thing going to take I'm am totally pist.
Jun 21, 2011
Yikes I hope they get it running soon!! Sara loves club penguin!!
Jun 21, 2011
at least kids will more active but it absolutely sucks what has happened.
Jun 21, 2011
Its been more than 2 days but its still not running.
Jun 22, 2011
I was going to meet the band.
Jun 25, 2011
club penguin works