Re: .org domain went down.

On Monday, May 19, 2003, at 10:48 US/Central, Merlin Moncure wrote:

> According to the register (covered by Slashdot), the .org domain went
> down for a little while.  Isn't that the one running on a postgres
> server?  Does anybody know anything about this?

It's working fine, and I see no evidence that it was anything but
working fine. The Register's article was a bunch of allegations with no
basis in reality. My guess is that someone saw the "No match for
'SLAMB.ORG'."-style message when they did a whois query and assumed
that meant the server was down, when it really meant they were querying
Verisign's server, which doesn't know anything about .org. And then
posted a unsubstantiated rant. And, naturally, the slashdot people
linked to it without verifying.

Scott