Wow! We never knew that Club Penguin would make the news with all of its glitches and stupidity. Its plastered all over ABC,CBS and even mashable news. This is becoming ridiculous.
Club penguin is getting famous without even trying for it.
(CBS) - Break out the Advil, parents! The popular children's gaming site Club Penguin was offline and re-directing to a parked domain site all morning.
We're guessing the masterminds at Disney haven't learned from the Dallas Cowboy's URL debacle last year. ClubPenguin.com expired last week and was in URL limbo this morning. Whois.domaintools.com said their status as "Pending Renewal or Deletion."
Blog ClubPenguinInsider.com reported that Club Penguin denied rumors that the site had been shut down and said that it would go back online within a few hours.
The site, which launched in 2005 and bought by the Walt Disney Company in 2007 for $350 million, is an online world with mini games and chat rooms. The massively multi-player online role-playing domain claims to have 12 million members and is basically a World of Warcraft for tots - without the creepy ghosts and guilds.
Although the site went back up around noon, users can't seem to log in to play. People are taking to Twitter and reporting...
"Club Penguin is DOWN?!: When I tried to log onto Club Penguin today, this is what appeared!Club Penguin is down!..." -Papichulo366
"ClubPenguin.com, sold for $350 million dollars to Disney, appear to have let their domain expire..." -EwanToo
"Club Penguin Site Down Update. clubpenguin.com is now online but it you are unable to play the game still as..." -MrSnowman3
(BLOG-E-PEDIA) -
It found 67 per cent of New Zealand children used some kind of kids' social networking site, such as Disney's Club Penguin – which lets members adopt.
While engrossed in a “grown-up” conversation with my husband one evening, I look over to see that my five-year old son is playing an online game on the kid-friendly Club Penguin website. Hmm, that's funny, I don't remember the laptop even being open
By Alison Lowenstein | Email the author | 10:00am If you are around elementary school aged kids, you've probably heard of the website Club Penguin, which is popular with the 7 and up crowd. With tons of websites aimed toward kids, little ones are
Why is Club Penguin Down? First they are NOT Hacked! When you have a Domain you need to Pay for it and they probably just forgot to renew the Domain! Smart move Club BugLOL
Here you can see that an Update has been Done so Club
Gaming companies are increasingly focusing on kids following the success of Club Penguin — a massively multiplayer online role-playing game owned by US-based New Horizon Interactive, which was acquired by Disney in August 2007 for $350 million.
(zdnet) - Disney was willing to pay up to $700 million for Club Penguin, but apparently forgot to renew its domain. Parents can’t be happy.
If you go to Club Penguin—like my daughter did—you get an odd looking Network Solutions page. It’s the page you get when you haven’t renewed a domain name. The page has been down for a good chunk of the day. CBS News reported that Club Penguin returned about noon, but a lot of folks still can’t get to the site. The outage has been widely reported on Club Penguin blogs such as the Club Penguin Insider.
“The domain name has expired, but has been restored, but everything is getting back to normal,” said a Disney spokeswoman. Some players can’t log on, but most of the service has been restored.
Disney’s customer support line has been swamped with calls from parents and the company said it will review procedures to avoid this issue again. According to this lookup, Club Penguin’s domain expired June 13. A week later, Disney’s site is gone.
You’d think a company that spent $350 million in cash with an equal amount in potential earn-outs would at least mark its domain name calendars.
Thanks and thats all.
All Quotes about were articles from the following:
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/disneys-big-oops-club-penguin-domain-name-lapses/51031
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501465_162-20072617-501465.html
http://www.blog-e-pedia.com/clubpenguin/disney-forgets-to-renew-childrens-gaming-site-club-penguin/
