Entire Areas of the Internet Knocked Offline by Enom Following "Routine Maintenance"
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Entire Areas of the Internet Knocked Offline by Enom Following “Routine Maintenance”

An Internet outage which has been caused by a DNS issue at domain and DNS provider Enom is affecting business and people across the country. So if you are having trouble getting on the Internet, or getting to a website or other destination on the Internet, it’s quite possibly because of the massive DNS failure at Internet provider Enom. Enom is, among other things, a domain provider (much like GoDaddy, with whom more people may be familiar), which means that they also provide DNS (domain name service) for those domains.

Yes Facebook is Down and Instagram is Down on October 4th 2021
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Yes Facebook is Down, Instagram is Down AND WhatsApp is Down on October 4th 2021

Facebook and Facebook companies WhatsApp and Instagram are currently experiencing a massive outage, and all three sites and services are down and unreachable. We are reporting this on Monday, 10/4/2021. According to our sources, this is the result of a failure in DNS resolving as it should.

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Yes, Facebook IS Down – and So is Instagram – Happy Thanksgiving!

If you have been trying to get to Facebook today, Thanksgiving Day, 2019, and are unable to, it’s not you. Facebook is completely down. And Instagram is down. Both through the app, and via the web. Catastrophic failure for both sites.

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Facebook and Instagram Down on Wednesday, March 13 2019 – Facebook says “Not a DDoS”

If you’ve been trying to reach either Facebook or Instagram (Insta) on Wednesday, March 13th, 2019, and are unable to, or are finding that even if you can reach Facebook or Instagram they aren’t loading quickly, properly, or at all, there’s a reason for it. Facebook and Instagram are, in fact, down.

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Massive CenturyLink Outage is Nationwide on December 27 2018

Millions of people across the U.S. woke up to a nationwide, coast-to-coast CenturyLink outage. Hardest hit are New Mexico, Colorado, Idaho, Wyoming, and Washington state, however Centurylink is down in other states including California, Oregon, and the Northeast.

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Online Dating Site OKCupid Down – April 2017

Popular online dating site OKCupid went down for the count early this morning, and continues to be unreachable despite OKCupid (also known as ‘OKC’) saying on Twitter that the site is back up.

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Amazon S3 and AWS Cloud Services Down – List of Sites Affected

Amazon S3 (Amazon Simple Storage Service) and Amazon AWS (Amazon Web Services) is down at this very moment (Tuesday, February 28, 2017, at 3:30 p.m. EST, and people are understandably freaking out.

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Android People App on Google 4.2 Operating System Jelly Bean Omits Entire Month of December from Calendar

If your Android is operating on the 4.2 operating system, AKA Jelly Bean, you may notice something in your calendar is missing – the entire month of December. Those running the 4.2 operating system on the Nexus 4 device, Nexus 10 device, Nexus 7 tablet and Galaxy Nexus smartphones have reported the issue.

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Police to Residents: Facebook Going Down is NOT a 911 Emergency!

Residents in California called 911 when Facebook was down for more than an hour. What has this society come to when people need to be told that not being able to get on Facebook is not a 911 emergency?

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Facebook Goes Down

Yes, it’s true – today, August 1, 2014 – Facebook is down. No word yet from Facebook on whether Facebook was hacked, or someone tripped over a power cord, or just what the problem is. Within moments, it was all over Twitter, and apparently around the world, as people in all language started posting that Facebook was down, Facebook es mort, etc.. UPDATE: At 9:30am PST / 12:30pm EST Facebook came back up. No word yet on what the problem was.

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“Technical Glitch” in Iran’s ‘Filternet’ Allows Iranians Access to Facebook and Twitter

For a few brief, shining hours, countless Iranian citizens had unfettered access to Facebook and Twitter. Due to what Iranian authorities are calling a “technical glitch”, the ordinarily locked down Internet – which some call the Iranian “filternet” – had Facebook and Twitter shaped holes punched in it.

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Why is Movie2k Down? We Explain the MPAA Legal Wrangling that Took Down the World’s Largest Streaming Movie Search Engine

Movie2k, which lives, or lived, at Movie2k.to, is down, and a lot of fans want to know what happened to Movie2k, and why they can’t access Movie2k. Put simply, you can’t reach Movie2k because the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) got a restraining order from the court, requiring that access to the site be blocked. Everywhere.

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Amazon Prime Instant Video Down for Hours

If you use Amazon Prime Instant Video through certain devices, such as the Roku, Apple TV, or other Internet-enabled device such as a DVR or DVD player, and if you couldn’t connect to Amazon Instant Video today, take comfort in the fact that countless others were in the same situation.

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How to Check the Status of All Google Services at Once

Want to find out if there is a Google service outage or Google service disruption, or if a certain Google service is down? While Gmail is down more often than some of Google’s other services, other Google services also experience outages, and wouldn’t it be nice if there were a way to check on the status of all of the Google services at once? Well, there is just such a one-stop shopping status checker, and it will show you the status for Google Mail, Google Calendar, Google Talk, Google Drive, Google Documents, Google Spreadsheets, Google Presentations, Google Drawings, Google Sites, Google Video for business, and even Google Groups, Google Admin control panel / API, and Postini Services!

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Yes, LinkedIn is Down on March 20, 2013

If you can’t access LinkedIn (does anybody really use them any more?), it’s not just you. Yes, LinkedIn is down.