uk.co Domains Knocked Offline By Registrar Dispute

An anonymous reader writes "The .uk.co domain was wiped off the face of the Internet this morning with no notice, leaving more than 8,000 livid individuals and businesses - including Amazon and Priceline - with no Web presence or email. I saw this on nvnews.net, which originally came from the register, but since the domain is wiped out, you can no longer reach the article." Actually, you can read the story fine on theregister.co.uk. ;)

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Not true - or an exaggeration anyway

[KNicolson]

leaving more than 8,000 livid individuals and businesses - including Amazon and Priceline - with no Web presence or email.

As The Reg article says, it was used by these two companies, for example, to catch people who typed http://www.amazon.uk.co by accident. Both these two still have their co.uk versions working successfully.

Sub Judice...

[$$$$$exyGal]

What went wrong we may find out tomorrow as a Colombian judge decides whether Net Registrar has the continued right to the domain. Until then, Robert Fox tells us, he considers the matter sub judice and so does not want to comment further.

For those that don't know, "sub judice" means that Mr. Fox doesn't want the media to do something that would influence the judge.

--sex