Michael Chaney
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Michael D. Chaney is a Linux consultant who saved Microsoft's Hotmail service from a Christmas 1999 outage by kindly paying a $35 Network Solutions registration fee for them.
On December 24, 1999, Microsoft forgot to renew their Passport.com domain so Hotmail webmail service became unavailable.
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On March 2002, Microsoft again forgot to renew other of its domains, this time was hotmail.co.uk and was also paid by a private individual.
[edit] References
- The Register : Microsoft forgets to renew hotmail
- Slashdot.org: Microsoft Hotmail/Passport Service Interrupted:UPDATED
- The Passport Payment
- Microsoft forgets to renew hotmail.co.uk domain
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