On Thursday Feb 23, 2012 Digital River (A Publicly traded company on the NASDAQ) suffered from a “extremely rare hardware malfunction” which crippled it’s service based businesses SWREG, Reg.net, RegNow.com, DigitalRiver.com and DirectTrack.com. Fortunately I happened to be in Minneapolis for business and only 6 miles away from the corporate headquarters of DR.  As I drove onto the massive campus in Eden Prairie, MN I entered what looked like a ghost town , something reminiscent of the film ’2012′. About 25 cars filled the lot of the DR headquarters. The door was locked. The lights were out. I waited in the parking lot for around 10 minutes when I spotted an employee leaving the building.  A portly young lady walked out and I drove around and pulled up next to her,  rolled down my window and said “Any idea what’s going on? Your multi-billion dollar company has been offline forRead More