Hacking What happened to dealextreme?

[Rensato]

their site is dead =S
www.dealextreme.com

that sucks... I was thinking about ordering a gba cart =/

 

[HiProfile]

Given one stat site estimates well over 100k visits a day, I'd assume it just died momentarily.

 

[Reaper]

try this

 

[PuyoDead]

That worked. Also, holy crap! I'm glad I got my green laser pointer from there already!

United States Customers Only: due to new regulations enforced by the US FDA and PayPal, orders of >5mW lasers units shipped to the United States are no longer accepted. Orders that were previously accepted and unshipped will be cancelled and refunded to customers. This affects United States orders only.

 

[TodayiSawMyHeroF]

It has something to do with there domain hoster/company? No idea

 

[Sharpz]

try this

Why does the 2 in the www make a difference?

 

[MicShadow]

try this

Why does the 2 in the www make a difference?

Because its a server mirror i presume

 

[Lluvia]

Got this email two hours ago:

Dear Valued Customers,

DealExtreme has been made aware that our main website www.dealextreme.com is currently inaccessible. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience caused by this outage.

This is caused by a matter with the Domain Name Registrar. DealExtreme is working with the Domain Name Registrar to get the problems resolved as quickly as possible.

In the meantime, please access the website using http://www2.dealextreme.com/ . You may track you orders, browse for products, and place orders as usual. Note that you only need to change www to www2. Always check that the address you use ends with ".dealextreme.com" .

Customer service ( http://services.dealextreme.com/ ) and our shipping operations are NOT affected by this outage.

DealExtreme highly values the availability of all our services, and outages like this are very rare. Please be assured that we are working on everything possible to bring the site up as soon as we can.
To cheer everyone up, coupon code "THANKYOU" is available now for $2 of every 5 items. If you are hunting for cheap ~$1 bargains this coupon could give you up to 40% off!

Thank you for your patience and understanding!

Tiffany

DealExtreme Customer Service Manager

 

[playallday]

Here's a second link for everyone.

IMPORTANT WEBSITE ACCESS INFORMATION

DealExtreme has been made aware that our main website www.dealextreme.com is currently inaccessible. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience caused by this outage.

This is caused by a matter, which is currently being resolved, with the Domain Name Registrar. DealExtreme is working diligently and promptly with the Domain Name Registrar to resolve the problems.

In the meantime, customers report that the website is still accessible by using http://www2.dealextreme.com/.

Customer service (http://services.dealextreme.com/) and our shipping operations are NOT affected by this outage.

DealExtreme highly values the availability of all our services, and outages like this are very rare. Please be assured that we are working on everything possible to bring the site up as soon as we can.

Thank you for your understanding!

Kyle

DealExtreme.com

 

[Chaykin]

http://dealextreme.com/ works as well.

 

[playallday]

http://www.dealextreme.com/ is back up!

 

[ShAdOwFuRi]

yep back up again, what a relief =]

 

[Toni Plutonij]

There was already a thread in General offtopic about this..

Seeing as dealextreme got the site back, I'll close this!!