When Marketo went offline, self-described ‘geek’ rescued domain after their own failure to renew

"Good samaritan was the only motivation," tweeted applications engineer Travis Prebble. "I didn't buy the domain, just paid renewal."

Barry Levine on July 26, 2017 at 11:26 am

Oops.

Or the corporate equivalent of that expression probably was uttered Tuesday at the headquarters of marketing tech giant Marketo, when its domain apparently expired.

It might well have been followed by a collective “thank you” to one Travis Prebble, a senior applications engineer in State College, Pennsylvania.

The Twitter feeds of both parties tell the basics of this story arc.

Early Tuesday morning, Prebble tweeted the following:

@marketo Hey, did anybody notice Marketo failed to renew https://t.co/bvVAcjInc9? We have some sites down because the munchkin.js fails.

— Travis Prebble (@TravisPrebble) July 25, 2017

[Read the full article on MarTech Today.]

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Barry Levine

Barry Levine covers marketing technology for Third Door Media. Previously, he covered this space as a Senior Writer for VentureBeat, and he has written about these and other tech subjects for such publications as CMSWire and NewsFactor. He founded and led the web site/unit at PBS station Thirteen/WNET; worked as an online Senior Producer/writer for Viacom; created a successful interactive game, PLAY IT BY EAR: The First CD Game; founded and led an independent film showcase, CENTER SCREEN, based at Harvard and M.I.T.; and served over five years as a consultant to the M.I.T. Media Lab. You can find him at LinkedIn, and on Twitter at xBarryLevine.

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When Marketo went offline, self-described ‘geek’ rescued domain after their own failure to renew

"Good samaritan was the only motivation," tweeted applications engineer Travis Prebble. "I didn't buy the domain, just paid renewal."

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