RoRWatch: DHH “forgets” to renew rubyonrails.org

A lot of warm fuzzy feeling we get when we realize that DHH “forgot” to renew rubyonrails.org. One commenter on TechCrunch chimes in:

“…It actually shows Oct 3, but that is irrelevant. The domain nextangle.com isn’t expired, it’s just parked. There is a difference.

On the other hand, rubyonrails.org is currently in the auto renew period, signaling that DHH forgot to renew it. It’s pretty simple to see what happened here. DHH forgot to renew the domain, the registrar took over the domain, the registrar initiated the auto renew period and parked it until the 45 grace period is over or DHH renews…”

A lot of web development on social media now is being done through Ruby on Rails – they really need to get their stuff together if they want people to have confidence in what they’r doing.

if you need Rails code, you can get it from github. Here’s what rubyonrails.org looks like now:

DHH fails to renew the rubyonrails.org domain

Posted by Paul “The Pageman” Pajo