Yahoo news says: Traffic on the many parts of the Internet slowed dramatically early Saturday, the apparent effects of a fast-spreading, virus-like infection in the world’s digital pipelines and interfering with Web browsing and delivery of e-mail. (read more: an email:: slashdot :: CNN :: BBC :: internetpulse)
Ahhh…so the boards are down cos of that electronic attack . It’s been 5 hours now! And my online journal is down too so just read my Livejournal. Not only that, the com/net/org/biz/us Root registries are taken offline!
Here’s an announcement from 000domains.com:
com/net/org/biz/us Root registries are taken offline for a registry imposed maintenance beginning at 6:00 AM CT on January 25, 2003 for 9 hours.
We expect to restore service by 15:00 PM CT January 25, 2003. (.org registry will be online again at 15:00 PM CT on Sunday January 26, 2003)
During this time our services will not be available for com/net/org/biz/us domain names. This maintenance window is at the gTLD registry level, and will affect all registrars equally.
