In case you were nowhere near Twitter for the past twenty-five minutes or so — where “access denied” is now trending — Apple.com has been going down and then back up, down and then back up for gasp almost a half hour, showing the above error message.
No one is quite sure why the site went down (according to one source familiar with the matter, it is possibly a hack attempt) but I’m sure the millions of geeks hitting refresh with bated breath isn’t helping.
Update: A Whois lookup via Carlos Granier shows that there is indeed something fishy going on with Apple’s DNS. But it’s not clear whether that is due to hackers or DNS spammers.
Update 2: Looks like it is DNS spammers responsible for the wonky Whois lookup — my above source was looking at the same thing. The issues might just be plain old server problems — boring, I know.
I love that Apple.com is down even though everybody is supposedly SOOOOO disappointed.—
matt buchanan (@mattbuchanan) October 04, 2011
Apple.com is down. So much for the $billion data center.—
Steven Levy (@stevenjayl) October 04, 2011
Siri, can you please authorize me to access apple.com/iphone?—
Taylor Buley (@taylorbuley) October 04, 2011
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