I'm Max Williams, CEO of Pusher, and I wanted to add a quick comment to this.<p>Having your domain name expire is pretty high on the list of most embarrassing things to cause issues. The reality of the situation is that registering a domain comes quite early in a company's history, before you have some of the information management systems in place. In our case, the reminder emails went to a single individual, who somehow managed to miss them. We have changed the contact details, and will be doing a post-mortem to make sure similar scenarios are covered in our integration tests.<p>It certainly doesn't indicate any lack of care for the reliability of the service. It's simply the result of a ridiculous administrative failing.<p>I am very sorry for any inconvenience caused.
If I was relying on a third party for push notifications (something I can easily do on my own, btw), the one single reason for downtime that would totally not be acceptable for me is them forgetting to renew their domain.<p>This is a huge indicator, IMHO, that they don't really believe in their service and don't even do the absolute minimum that's required for keeping it up.<p>Worse, depending on the type of message I'm passing through them, this might have privacy or security implications as messages will now be sent to a non-related third party.<p>Stuff like this is why I personally am very, very careful before outsourcing any part of my core infrastructure.
Looks like the domain expired but they are working on it.<p><a href="https://twitter.com/pusher/status/341136374243659776" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/pusher/status/341136374243659776</a>