In what appears to be the biggest “epic failure” to deliver end-user offers to their respective registrants, WhyNotParked – a PPC company from New South Wales, Australia – have announced the discovery of the data to its group of shareholders.
Apparently, a cluster of disk drives containing more than 22 million emails, most of them spam about cheap Canadian medication and remote controled minicars, somehow ended up being the depository of valid, end-user offers for domains parked at WhyNotParked servers.
“We cleaned out the NOC and there was a small room where we kept an insignificant server”, said Attila Smythers, head of IT for WhyNotParked. “We found that Sun server had been on the Internet since 1993, collecting data and somehow some unknown technician pointed the route of emails to that machine. It’s definitely not the best discovery, I can tell you.”
After 16 years worth of emails were examined by specialized software – the same forensics software used in the Snapnames / Halvarez scandal – the end result was a tally of 2,588,121 emails regarding legitimate offers for domains using the WhyNotParked platform.
“As much as we consider ourselves a pioneer in the domain aftermarket and domain monetization field, encountering such a huge cluster*uck within our own corporation is quite embarrassing”, said Thomas Littleman – managing director of WhyNotParked corporation. “In the future, we will ensure that all code changes made by Indian engineers will be given a more rigorous test that matches our current high standards.”
It is not known what the total amount of the offers is, but by a rough estimate it could easily surpass the Marchex buyout price of Yun Ye’s domain portfolio.
No wonder their name is WhyNotParked 😀
on behalf if australia i would like say sorry and please do resubmit your offers !
we have turned on the lights now
I wouldn’t worry about, I’m sure 96.8% of those legitimate offers were just appraisal scam emails.