Microsoft LOSES hotmail.be domain!

[Anonymous]

Through quite some level of nefarious activity, I was able to access the
domain administration email account for Microsoft's Hotmail. In their box,
among other things, was the following notice. Apparently Microsoft never paid
up for registering hotmail.be, and they were unable to prove that they own
the trademark for Hotmail.

I "accidentally" deleted the notice from the inbox to ensure that Microsoft
wouldn't see it in time to resolve the issue. Oops! My goof cost Microsoft a
domain. Sorry Bill.

From: te...@dns.be
To: []
Subject: Trademark for hotmail.be not received
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1999 00:32:32 +0100 (CET)
MIME-Version: 1.0
From te...@dns.be Sun Oct 31 15:33:20 1999
Received: from [134.58.74.38] by hotmail.com (3.2) with ESMTP id []; Sun Oct
31 15:33:20 1999
Received: from ns2.dns.be (ns2.dns.be [134.58.74.34])by giskard.dns.be
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Mon, 1 Nov 1999
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Message-Id: <1999103123...@ns2.dns.be>
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL48 (25)]

Dear,

According to our data, you are the administrative / technical contact of
the above mentioned domainname.
Please remember this domain was assigned to you on a TEMPORARY basis
(maximum 1 year) because:
- your organisation was still under creation
- your trademark was not yet approved by the Benelux Trademark Office.
Hence you were not able at registration term to provide us the necessary
justifying registration documents.

Please note that this registration was CONDITIONAL: you promised to let
us have final evidence within maximum 1 year; otherwise the domain would
be withdrawn from the domainname system.

This temporary period has passed and we have not yet received any registration
document. In case we should not have received it before the 10th of this month
we will be obliged to cancel your domain.

Kind regards,
P. Verbaeten.

[crash2000©]

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