BMW servers overloaded by Google's ALPHABET, Inc. announcement https://plus.google.com/+LaurenWeinstein/posts/aW53ypatwVy
BMW reports that their alphabet.com site is overloaded (testing shows it to be currently unreachable) since Google's ALPHABET, Inc. announcement. BMW has asserted that not only do they not want to relinquish that domain, which they say is an active part of a subsidiary, but that they were not approached by Google to sell the domain or pre-informed in any way of the Google announcement. If BMW's statements in these regards are true, it strikes me as impolite and uncaring at best for Google to have not given BMW some sort of warning -- issues of wanting to surprise the world notwithstanding -- given that it was entirely predictable that an announcement like this would cause activity that would likely overwhelm BMW's servers unless proactive action were taken. --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Google+: http://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein Twitter: http://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com _______________________________________________ nnsquad mailing list http://lists.nnsquad.org/mailman/listinfo/nnsquad
