Washington Post lets domain name expire

Missed payment disrupts e-mail at newspaper

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The e-mail system for writers and editors at The Washington Post failed Thursday for hours because the newspaper did not renew its Internet address, the company said.

The newspaper's failure to heed warnings that its washpost.com address had expired led to the outage. The company said in a statement that e-mail was disrupted for hours and that the Internet domain was immediately renewed.

The a story on the newspaper's site Friday said Post employees "were told that renewal notices from Herndon-based Network Solutions Inc., which registers domain names, went to a 'drop box' that was not monitored."

Its news Web site, www.washingtonpost.com, was not affected by the disruption.

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