Was The Traffic Unusually Light In Redmond This Morning?

A couple of us were startled a bit ago when we tried to dial up a familiar website and our browsers returned the following (Click to enlarge):

I wonder how much they’d pay me to get it back if I bought it. Our browsers may have some redirecting spyware going on; or, some poor miscreant at The Borg forgot to renew the domain name. Would suck to be him, methinks.

UPDATE: - While entertaining, this was ultimately a problem at my client’s ISP, and the Microsoft domain remains unsullied.

3 Comments

  1. So, did you make a bid?

  2. Ha!

    Having worked at MacroHard, it’s pretty easy to imagine how this could’ve happened: lost in the high-priority shuffle. The person who filed for the last domain name ownership renewal is probably long gone from the company, and though they may now stand as officially Accursed of Bill, they’re laughing like hell.

  3. darn. i was ready with $25 for a share of the action.