Disney Forgets To Renew Club Penguin Domain Name – Site Goes Down

June 26, 2011 | by Disney Dreaming

Please explain to us how you can pay $700 million to purchase a website and then fail to renew the domain years and years in advance? Disney recently “forgot” to renew the Club Penguin domain name, leaving the sites 12 million users (who pay for the site monthly) to not be able to get to the website. The site was only down a few days, but a few days on the web is like an eternity! And in addition to the days the site was down, it then took a while for the Club Penguin domain to propagate through the internet, so only some users could use the site right away, and others had to wait another couple of days.

According to reports Disney is offering those who take the time to complain about the down time one week free on the site, and with users paying $5.95 per month for unlimited access, that only equals out to under $1.50. For a site that most likely brings in millions of dollars each month, and only has to pay for servers, that doesn’t seem like quite enough.

Thoughts?