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Originally Posted by Kushan

Ugh, I hate it when sites refuse gmail addresses and such. Then again, I also recommend having a domain name and forwarding email from that to your hosted email elsewhere.

I should probably do that, I've been running my own qasdfdsaq.com domain for many years, which really doesn't do anything particularly useful yet. ---------- Post added at 12:59 ---------- Previous post was at 12:54 ----------

Originally Posted by Paul M

Seems they have completely screwed the dns for ntlworld.com - it doesnt exist anymore.

Looks like an update was made yesterday to set it to expire in 30 days.

Dates Created on 1999-09-23 - Expires on 2014-09-23 - Updated on 2014-08-25

As of today though, the domain does still exist and is officially registered.

Registrar Info

Name NETWORK SOLUTIONS, LLC. Whois Server whois.networksolutions.com Referral URL http://networksolutions.com Status clientDeleteProhibited, clientHold, clientTransferProhibited, clientUpdateProhibited
Important Dates

Expires On September 23, 2014 Registered On September 23, 1999 Updated On August 25, 2014
Name Servers

ns1.virginmedia.net 62.253.162.237
ns2.virginmedia.net 194.168.4.237
ns3.virginmedia.net 62.253.162.37
ns4.virginmedia.net 194.168.4.33




Site Status

IP Address 212.250.162.12 Status active

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Eh. Looks like an epic fail:

Domain Status:
Deleted And Available Again

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Originally Posted by Simcut

Is it just me that thinks its wholely unacceptable that their estimated fix time is 8.30pm tonight, when the fault was raised at 8am this morning? having email issues is a massive disruption to customers, and not to mention people having websites hosted on the homepage.ntlworled.com domain.

This is the nature of the global DNS system. No changes are instant. There are millions of servers to update, many of which are set to only check for changes on a cycle of anywhere from once an hour to once every 7 days.