Spikedhumor.com is one of the largest video based entertainment sites. It can be a great way of wasting time, has hundreds of thousands of users, and is no doubt worth tens of millions of dollars.
However, as of this morning, the site shows an expired domain error message.
Could it be possible that a company clearly worth millions of dollars, would forget to renew their domain name? Could the Spikedhumor.com domain be on auction soon? What happens if they lose the domain?, as clearly there is millions of dollars in branding that will be lost.
Personally I expect it to be a technical error of some sort, but there is no doubt that this is a bad day for Spiked Humor, and a great day for PacNames, who are getting buckets of publicity from this.
John Motson says:
Obviously not, go through to the whois service and you will see that their domain expires in 2010.
midascode says:
Very true John.
Perhaps just a server-side error.
Andrew says:
It’s happening again, it was working a few hours ago.