Amazon’s main site, Amazon.com, has been down for the last hour or more. Currently some sections of the website are available sporadically.
The really scary thing is that based on their reported revenues every minute of downtime equates to about $31000 of lost revenue!
Now that is really mission critical!
In the meantime you might amuse yourself looking at some of the craziness in the current whois output:
whois amazon.comWhois Server Version 2.0
Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net
for detailed information.Server Name: AMAZON.COM.ZZZZZ.GET.LAID.AT.WWW.SWINGINGCOMMUNITY.COM
IP Address: 69.41.185.219
Registrar: INNERWISE, INC. D/B/A ITSYOURDOMAIN.COM
Whois Server: whois.itsyourdomain.com
Referral URL: http://www.itsyourdomain.comServer Name: AMAZON.COM.MORE.INFO.AT.WWW.BEYONDWHOIS.COM
IP Address: 203.36.226.2
Registrar: TUCOWS INC.
Whois Server: whois.tucows.com
Referral URL: http://domainhelp.opensrs.netServer Name: AMAZON.COM.IS.N0T.AS.1337.AS.WWW.GULLI.COM
IP Address: 80.190.192.24
Registrar: EPAG DOMAINSERVICES GMBH
Whois Server: whois.enterprice.net
Referral URL: http://www.enterprice.netDomain Name: AMAZON.COM
Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, LLC.
Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com
Referral URL: http://www.networksolutions.com
Name Server: UDNS1.ULTRADNS.NET
Name Server: UDNS2.ULTRADNS.NET
Status: clientDeleteProhibited
Status: clientTransferProhibited
Status: clientUpdateProhibited
Updated Date: 28-mar-2008
Creation Date: 01-nov-1994
Expiration Date: 31-oct-2017
From Colm MacCarthaigh:
Those are just whois entries that match “amazon.com” , only one is the valid-whois entry for “^amazon.com$”
From hostyle:
Not really related but imdb.com seemed to be down for a few hours yesterday.