March 28th, 2006
Oops! Deleted Our Own Blog
By Michael Santo
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
Really, you have to watch that Delete key. Apparently Google deleted its own blog on Monday night … not only that, during that period, the blog address was claimed by another user. It wasn’t a hack, but a mistake.
“We’ve determined the cause of tonight’s outage. The blog was mistakenly deleted by us (d’oh!) which allowed the blog address to be temporarily claimed by another user. This was not a hack, and nobody guessed our password. Our bad,” Jason Goldman, Blogger Product Manager, wrote in a posting on the Google Blog. Source: Jason Goldman, Blogger Product Manager at the Google Blog
Someone named Trey Philips noticed that the blog was unregistered during its period offline and registered it.
We Say: You can’t help but laugh over this one. 
David Johnston says:
Wow… That’s pretty bad.
March 28th, 2006 at 2:52 pm
Stephen says:
I’m more surprised that there was somebody lurking around that just happened to see that the blog was unregistered. Is this the type of thing that would be noticed by the casual surfer or are there people out there that all they do is check for the administrative mistakes of others in order to possible take advantage of situations like this?
March 29th, 2006 at 11:57 am
Lockergnome's Tech News Watch says:
Oops! Deleted Our Own Blog
Michael Santo of RealTechNews writes: Really, you have to watch that Delete key. Apparently Google deleted its own blog on Monday night… not only that, during that period, the blog address was claimed by another user. It wasn’t a hack, but a mistake….
March 29th, 2006 at 4:37 pm