Your Virgin Money has been DotNetNuked
Virgin Money US recently launched, with the rebranding of the acquired CircleLending, the P2P lending service focused on family and friend lending and servicing.
As I love to keep tabs of the massive conglomerate of Richard Branson’s, I was anxious to check it out. But, unfortunately, the site pulled up a DotNetNuked error!
What an embarrassment. Maybe because it is the traffic they received from the recent TechCrunch post. Or they just forgot to point the web application to another.virgin.co.uk.
UPDATE: I just checked the site and they found the server! Now that the site is back, I can see that they have launched a full-service bank — not just a Prosper or LendingClub. I’m signing up.
October 17th, 2007 at 5:45 pm
Do we really need another online bank? I will find it interesting to see how/what people tend to pick up and align with the Virgin brand. Virgin has expanded quite a bit in other countries, e.g. in South Africa they took over the biggest group of gyms and rebranded them Virgin Active. And looks like they did a great job there… so curious to track their progress here… ING Direct has done well and has also now acquired the assets of Netbank, longtime (1995) online banking pioneer in the US.