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BREAKING: Foursquare.com redirects to GoDaddy

Mike Butcher
Friday, March 26th, 2010
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Have they not paid their bill maybe?

Update: Yeah, billing glitch.

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  • http://www.scottmallinson.com Scott Mallinson

    Working fine for me at 12:42 GMT.

  • http://benwerd.com/ Ben Werdmuller

    Likely to be a DNS mixup. It’s surely a little bit unfair to make a news story out of a technical glitch? (Although it does illustrate, once again, the dangers in depending on a centralized service – single points of failure were what the Internet was designed to avoid.)

  • http://www.calvinrobinson.co.uk/ Calvin Robinson

    Having the same problem here – thought it was a dns issue.

  • http://caffeinehit.com Andy Ashburner

    You typing it in right Mike. Works fine here.

  • http://twitter.com/joshr josh russell

    most-likely a temp dns config issue no? they’re probably moving servers, clicked the wrong thing for a second..

  • http://www.sassen.org Phil v. Sassen

    Huge fail …

  • http://www.dumblittleblogger.com Vishal Sanjay

    Its working fine right now, I guess they forgot to pay their hosting fees, but I was expecting biggies like foursquare to own and manage their own servers.

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