Network Solutions falls off the web

Network Solutions - the company that resells top level domains like .com and .net - seems to have misplaced its own website. The company's website, networksolutions.com, is unavailable and has been for some time. Trying to visit the site right now just results in an embarrassing "Operation timed out" message. Bad news for …

[Anonymous Coward]

Been down for 18 hours at least

Paris cos she wouldn't go down for this long.

[Chris Bulow]

Network Solutions

Working fine here from Orlando...

[John Wolff]

Works for me...

As of 19 Aug 14:01 GMT I have no trouble loading the site here in the states...

[Anonymous Coward]

Trace Route

All I get:

Tracing route to networksolutions.com [205.178.187.13]

over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms HOME-DC01 [192.168.2.100]

2 11 ms 10 ms 8 ms 10.33.64.1

3 9 ms 13 ms 13 ms 80.195.128.33

4 14 ms 10 ms 10 ms osr01wolv-tenge71.network.virginmedia.net [62.30

.254.45]

5 13 ms 22 ms 14 ms man-bb-a-ge-130-0.network.virginmedia.net [195.1

82.178.65]

6 20 ms 19 ms 21 ms 212.187.136.125

7 145 ms 23 ms 20 ms ae-4-4.ebr1.London1.Level3.net [4.69.133.102]

8 44 ms 37 ms 34 ms ae-1-100.ebr2.London1.Level3.net [4.69.132.118]

9 137 ms 122 ms 94 ms ae-43.ebr1.NewYork1.Level3.net [4.69.137.74]

10 115 ms 91 ms 90 ms ae-81-81.csw3.NewYork1.Level3.net [4.69.134.74]

11 102 ms 108 ms 107 ms ae-84-84.ebr4.NewYork1.Level3.net [4.69.134.121]

12 111 ms 112 ms 102 ms ae-3.ebr4.Washington1.Level3.net [4.69.132.93]

13 104 ms 108 ms 108 ms ae-94-94.csw4.Washington1.Level3.net [4.69.134.1

90]

14 96 ms 97 ms 98 ms ae-31-99.car1.Washington3.Level3.net [4.68.17.19

9]

15 100 ms 97 ms 98 ms XO-COMMUNIC.car1.Washington3.Level3.net [4.71.20

4.26]

16 * * * Request timed out.

17 * * * Request timed out.

18 * * * Request timed out.

19 * * * Request timed out.

20 * * * Request timed out.

21 * * * Request timed out.

22 * * * Request timed out.

23 * * * Request timed out.

24 * * * Request timed out.

25 * * * Request timed out.

26 * * * Request timed out.

27 * * * Request timed out.

28 * * * Request timed out.

29 * * * Request timed out.

30 * * * Request timed out.

Trace complete.

What about anyone else?

[Anonymous Coward]

@Chris Bulow

Perhaps a routing problem, then.

[Solomon Grundy]

Crap

Maybe they realized that their company was total crap and decided to say fuck it and sod off to the bar.

[Charlie Clark]

Great caption

.ohdear :-D

[Paul]

@Traceroute by A.C.

Could it be because car1.Washington3.Level3.net has crashed?

Mine's the one with the 'Old Jokes' book in the pocket.

[David Harper]

@Trace Route

Yes, traceroute fails for me too, both from Cambridge, England and from my web hosting provider in beautiful downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

I get "* * *" from hop 12 onwards. They seem to have lost their routes from both Level3.net and xo.net

Network Solutions is an ex-parrot. It has ceased to be.

[Kevin Hutchinson]

Can't get it in Mexico

Can't get www.networksolutions.com or www.netsol.com from here in south Mexico at 4:25pm UK time (10:25am Mexico). Here's a traceroute for netsol.com:

1 home (192.168.1.254) 2.541 ms 1.623 ms 1.800 ms

2 dsl-servicio-l200.uninet.net.mx (200.38.193.226) 79.476 ms 34.409 ms 31.518 ms

3 bb-pue-ctp-8-ge9-0-0.uninet.net.mx (201.125.73.58) 39.145 ms 160.551 ms 56.789 ms

4 bb-la-grand-2-pos2-0-0.uninet.net.mx (200.38.193.97) 94.090 ms 177.991 ms 82.389 ms

5 12.118.42.17 (12.118.42.17) 83.020 ms 91.862 ms 110.707 ms

6 tbr2.la2ca.ip.att.net (12.122.82.138) 136.574 ms 106.878 ms 84.792 ms

7 ggr2.la2ca.ip.att.net (12.123.222.45) 110.099 ms 128.891 ms 82.432 ms

8 192.205.35.158 (192.205.35.158) 108.386 ms 82.379 ms 82.499 ms

9 te-3-1-0.rar3.la-ca.us.xo.net (65.106.1.54) 83.436 ms 149.041 ms 86.258 ms

10 ge7-0-0d0.rar1.la-ca.us.xo.net (65.106.1.53) 336.036 ms 522.356 ms 104.379 ms

11 p0-0-0d0.rar2.la-ca.us.xo.net (65.106.1.50) 100.371 ms 122.994 ms 86.657 ms

12 p6-0-0.RAR1.Dallas-TX.us.xo.net (65.106.0.13) 166.740 ms 166.346 ms 169.287 ms

13 p0-0-0d0.RAR2.Dallas-TX.us.xo.net (65.106.1.38) 187.027 ms 223.606 ms 126.058 ms

14 p6-0-0.rar1.atlanta-ga.us.xo.net (65.106.0.9) 147.635 ms 165.987 ms 183.216 ms

15 p0-0-0d0.RAR2.Atlanta-GA.us.xo.net (65.106.1.26) 191.079 ms 151.513 ms 564.004 ms

16 p1-0-0.rar2.washington-dc.us.xo.net (65.106.0.5) 196.624 ms 211.585 ms 200.740 ms

17 p7-0-0.mar2.washington5-dc.us.xo.net (65.106.3.206) 196.061 ms 190.377 ms 232.374 ms

18 71.5.190.110.ptr.us.xo.net (71.5.190.110) 208.587 ms 191.884 ms 193.299 ms

19 * * *

20 * * *

21 * * *

...

Never did much like their site anyway. Too much fluff and special offers to add hosting and other crap when all you want is a plan old domain name.

[kyle elliott]

Central Florida

Working down here in centeral florida, not much else is though... damned hurricanes

[Steve Renouf]

Who the F*** are miisolutions.net

It comes up as a re-direct in NO-SCRIPT

[Lee T.]

working from australia

at 8pm uk

traceroute to www.networksolutions.com (205.178.187.13), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets

1 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1) 2.320 ms 6.300 ms 2.639 ms

2 10.24.64.1 (10.24.64.1) 22.026 ms 9.715 ms 6.888 ms

3 sbr2-pos3-3.gw.optusnet.com.au (198.142.144.77) 13.612 ms 10.656 ms 7.682 ms

4 mas2-ge1-0-5-900.gw.optusnet.com.au (198.142.160.22) 9.324 ms 9.666 ms 10.208 ms

5 sbr3-ge14-0-0-821.gw.optusnet.com.au (211.29.156.12) 13.457 ms 10.599 ms 11.306 ms

6 203.208.191.73 (203.208.191.73) 168.491 ms 169.991 ms 167.744 ms

7 ge6-0-128.ir1.paloalto-ca.us.xo.net (206.111.12.45) 168.144 ms 168.643 ms 168.074 ms

8 te-3-1-0.rar3.sanjose-ca.us.xo.net (65.106.1.58) 175.952 ms 169.464 ms 175.467 ms

9 ge7-0-0d0.rar1.sanjose-ca.us.xo.net (65.106.1.57) 172.334 ms 169.711 ms 172.543 ms

10 p1-0-0.rar1.washington-dc.us.xo.net (65.106.0.37) 244.252 ms 243.052 ms 245.484 ms

11 p7-2-0.mar1.washington5-dc.us.xo.net (65.106.3.202) 244.680 ms 247.784 ms 244.394 ms

12 71.5.190.106.ptr.us.xo.net (71.5.190.106) 243.175 ms 246.792 ms 245.474 ms

13 64.244.254.238 (64.244.254.238) 245.643 ms 248.587 ms 246.685 ms

14 edg-r-01-vlan12.net.dc2.netsol.com (205.178.191.14) 411.537 ms 468.986 ms 454.011 ms

15 * * *

16 * *

[James O'Brien]

HAHAHA

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 209.164.156.1

2 38 ms 140 ms 9 ms 208.49.41.49

3 66 ms 118 ms 81 ms 65.89.44.97

4 99 ms 87 ms 53 ms so-7-0-1.edge5.NewYork1.Level3.net [4.68.63.21]

5 78 ms 67 ms 73 ms vlan79.csw2.NewYork1.Level3.net [4.68.16.126]

6 49 ms 91 ms 69 ms ae-84-84.ebr4.NewYork1.Level3.net [4.69.134.121]

7 113 ms 93 ms 83 ms ae-3.ebr4.Washington1.Level3.net [4.69.132.93]

8 96 ms 72 ms 51 ms ae-94-94.csw4.Washington1.Level3.net [4.69.134.190]

9 113 ms 117 ms 126 ms ae-31-99.car1.Washington3.Level3.net [4.68.17.199]

10 80 ms 96 ms 100 ms XO-COMMUNIC.car1.Washington3.Level3.net [4.71.204.26]

11 77 ms 71 ms 101 ms 207.88.183.30.ptr.us.xo.net [207.88.183.30]

12 113 ms 65 ms 73 ms edg-r-01-vlan10.net.dc2.netsol.com [205.178.191.2]

13 * * * Request timed out.

14 * * * Request timed out.

15 * * * Request timed out.

16 * * * Request timed out.

17 * * * Request timed out.

18 * * * Request timed out.

19 * * * Request timed out.

. . .

Always hated those bunch of wankers.

[Anonymous Coward]

@ Been down for 18 hours at least

Paris cos she WOULD go down for this long.

FIXED

[Erik Aamot]

oh good !

I've been noticing alot of net advertising by NS for domain names for the amazingly high price of $19.95 per year

at least a few n00bs have been saved, and hopefully went somewhere else to register

[Chris Girocco]

Custom Web Sites! Yeah

Focus people, focus! You were the only registrar and companies with more focus like godaddy waltzed in a screwed you.

Domains are a commodity, focus on commoditized domain and hosting services ... like godaddy. Oh yeah, and hot babes washing windows -- also a commodity.

[Dr Patrick J R Harkin]

If you're not part of Network Solutions...

You're part of the network precipitate.

[Kermit The Frog]

HTTP or HTTPS?

erm... that link is HTTPS, not HTTP, the http link works fine... have I missed something?