.org Registry Offline - Not

einer writes "According to the The Register, the registry containing all of the .org tld information has fallen off the planet. The article is light on details, and doesn't list any potential consequences. " It looks like it's the server that maintains the records for who owns what .org domain - and a big "I Told You So" for Verisign. And of course, now it seems to be working just fine. Good work, PIR.

So what.

[Prince_Ali]

I make it a point to never visit any .org sites at all. Vile things, they are. I haven't visited a single .org website in over 2 years.

.org registry

[Anonymous Coward]

Because you never know where to find a good orgy....

oh no!

[Anonymous Coward]

now I can't lookup slashdot.org anymore.

Uh oh...

[fredrikj]

...in a few hours, slashdot.org will redirect to microsoft.com or riaa.com...

Re:So what.

[CustomFort]

*Cough* Slashdot.org *cough*

In recent news...

[mschoolbus]

Verisign licensed SCO's Unix Source code on Monday...

Patriot Act

[sokkelih]

Terrorist .Org-anizations.

Lol.

[BoomerSooner]

This is why everything should still be IP based! (j/k)

.cx

[Arc04]

Just be thankful all .cx domains are still available.

I don't know if I could make it through the day without a trip to a certain site. :P

Re:So what.

[CProgrammer98]

*cough* *cough* humour *cough* *cough*

Bigger problem than you think!

[japhar81]

> now I can't lookup slashdot.org anymore.

Which isn't that big a deal, till you realize that the alternative to /. is doing real work...

Oh the humanity!

www.flat-earth.org

[crazyprogrammer]

the .org tld information has fallen off the planet.


I knew the earth was flat but nobody believed me.

Oracle

[flacco]

I think I can hear the strangled, ecstatic shriek of Larry Ellison cumming in his pants all the way over here on the east coast.

Re:So what.

[borgdows]

*cough* *cough* I have SARS! *cough* *cough*

Re:Uh oh...

[borgdows]

I'd rather bet it will redirect to goatse.cx! ;)

Chicken Little

[jmb-d]

And of course, now it seems to be working just fine.

The sky is falling! The sky is falling!

Oh, wait...

Isn't That Amusing

[Jerk City Troll]

Here's journalistic integrity for you: a story that reports you cannot reach .org sites posted on and read from a .org site. That's like posting: "you are unable to read this message." Way to go guys.

It's too late!!

[borgdows]

All our bases belong to them!!

Check by yourself :

$ whois slashdot.org

Found referral to whois.opensrs.net.

Registrant:
Microsoft Corporation
One Microsoft Way
Redmond, WA 98052
US

Domain name: SLASHDOT.ORG

(...)

Re:Is there a better way?

[gh5046]

> I don't think the founding fathers of the Internet thought it of it being like this.

Well, according to Al Gore he invented the internet. He probably never thought that far ahead.

Re:So what.

[matth]

*Me Checks* nope no .org I go to http://www.slashdot.com !!

Re:.cx

[Anonymous Coward]

OMFGROFLOLBBQ

OMFG=Oh my fucking god,
ROFL=rolling on the floor laughing,
OLBBQ=outside lighting a barbecue?

I must be getting old, all these acronyms are getting too much for me.

Well....

[phillk6751]

I guess Im gunna have to buy my linux upgrades from Best Buy now instead of downloading them.

Hoorray!!!

[borgdows]

Slashdot.org is not accessible any more!
The productivity of my IT company will rise rise riiiise!!

Re:So what.

[etrnl]

*points to your sig*

Irony:

[Illserve]

A news site posting a story that it's gone down.

Re:Mine wont whois!

[roka]

ok, let's read the output again, shall we? :)

$ whois -h whois.crsnic.net slashdot.org

[foobar]

No match for "SLASHDOT.ORG".

[bazqux]

The Registry database contains ONLY .COM, .NET, .EDU domains and Registrars.

It's the evil Debian people !

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

I wanted to check it out, but to be extra sure, I went to org.org.org.org [org.org] (better four .orgs than one to be extra sure) : what do I find ? A DEBIAN BOX ! That computer has been taken over by Debian ! It's Stallman's evil plot to take over .org !!

Annymous Cowards

[schnits0r]

I did a who is and I got this:

Domain ID:D2289308-LROR
Domain Name:SLASHDOT.ORG
Created On:05-Oct-1997 04:00:00 UTC
Last Updated On:15-Jan-2003 01:48:23 UTC
Expiration Date:04-Oct-2005 04:00:00 UTC
Sponsoring Registrar:R11-LROR
Status:OK
Registrant ID:11-C
Registrant Name:SEE SPONSORING REGISTRAR
Registrant Street1:Whois Server:whois.opensrs.net
Registrant Street2:Referral URL:www.opensrs.org
Registrant City:N/A
Registrant Postal Code:N/A
Registrant Country:CA
Registrant Email:[e-mail]

It looks like someone is a annymous coward.

First Peter, now Jason

[rjamestaylor]

Looks like Jason Blair got picked up by The Register for this story. First Peter Arnett gets picked up by a UK Tabloid, now this. Those wacky Britts!

New article the Reg should post.

[Sxooter]

Apparently, we're all dumb as lamp posts and can't bother to read the part of the whois query on our boxes that says this whois server only handles .net and .com

We're going to go back to school, we should be ready to post articles worth reading in a few short years, til then, there's always the BBC, eh?

Re:Isn't That Amusing

[bilbobuggins]

speaking of journalistic integrity, did you see the article title?
reading it, i couldn't help but imagine the discovery of this news at /. went something like this:

h: 'oh man, .org is down'
t: 'no way'
h: 'way'
t: 'no way'
h: 'way'
t: 'duuuuude. like, slashdot is totally a .org site. bogus!'
h: 'like for real brah. and i was completely about to make some righteous nachos before this happened!'
t: 'oh wait it's back! tubular!'
h: 'schweet. check me out while i post this totally rad story on our site!'

In Online Gaming News

[OgGreeb]

Epic Games and Sony Corp have released a new Unreal Tournament 2003 MMORPG version of Capture-The-Flag called DOMAIN WARS... Beta tests were completed over the weekend.

Re:oh no!

[V.P.]

I thought by now people would know slashdot's IP by heart.