DMOZ Offline?

403's rather than the usual timout...

[yetanotheruser]

Hey ho..

Am I the only one who is getting 403's for the whole of DMOZ!?

edit: sorry.. didn't notice the very similar thread right in front of me! being a bit 'offline' myself today ;)

[korkus2000]

The whois shows dmoz.org reserved until january 2004 anallawalla.

[rfgdxm1]

Relax:

Domain ID:D2914575-LROR
Domain Name:DMOZ.ORG
Created On:02-Jan-1999 05:00:00 UTC
Last Updated On:02-Jan-2003 06:17:04 UTC
Expiration Date:02-Jan-2004 05:00:00 UTC
Sponsoring Registrar:R19-LROR
Status:CLIENT DELETE PROHIBITED
Status:CLIENT TRANSFER PROHIBITED
Status:CLIENT UPDATE PROHIBITED
Registrant ID:19-C
Registrant Name:CONTACT NOT AUTHORITATIVE
Registrant Street1:Whois Server:whois.registrar.aol.com
Registrant Street2:Referral URL:www.registrar.aol.com
Registrant City:N/A
Registrant Postal Code:N/A
Registrant Country:CA
Registrant Email:[e-mail]
Admin ID:19-C
Admin Name:CONTACT NOT AUTHORITATIVE
Admin Street1:Whois Server:whois.registrar.aol.com
Admin Street2:Referral URL:www.registrar.aol.com
Admin City:N/A
Admin Postal Code:N/A
Admin Country:CA
Admin Email:[e-mail]
Billing ID:19-C
Billing Name:CONTACT NOT AUTHORITATIVE
Billing Street1:Whois Server:whois.registrar.aol.com
Billing Street2:Referral URL:www.registrar.aol.com
Billing City:N/A
Billing Postal Code:N/A
Billing Country:CA
Billing Email:[e-mail]
Tech ID:19-C
Tech Name:CONTACT NOT AUTHORITATIVE
Tech Street1:Whois Server:whois.registrar.aol.com
Tech Street2:Referral URL:www.registrar.aol.com
Tech City:N/A
Tech Postal Code:N/A
Tech Country:CA
Tech Email:[e-mail]
Name Server:ARL-NAME-SVC-1.COMPUSERVE.COM
Name Server:DUB-NAME-SVC-1.COMPUSERVE.COM

The DNS also resolves for me.

[anallawalla]

Phew. Thanks for confirming.

The broken routes from AU are causing the false positives but Sam Spade can't see the DNS entry either.

[samspade.org...] (just dmoz.org gets the same results)

AOL sure can: [whois.registrar.aol.com...]

Must be the war. :)

- Ash

[NeverHome]

The best thing that could ever happen to DMOZ would be for AOL to give it to Google. imho.

[rfgdxm1]

>The best thing that could ever happen to DMOZ would be for AOL to give it to Google. imho.

But what Google want it? Worst part about it is that from time to time ODP editors become corrupt. Even if they are weeded out quickly, if Google owns the ODP then some will call this "Google corruption". The other big problem is that as a volunteer organization, no matter what there are always going to be backlogged queues somewhere. If nobody volunteers in a topic area as an editor, then sites there aren't going to get reviewed quick. Editalls and metas aren't superhuman. However, these backlogged queues cause lots of complaints, and if Google owned the ODP then these webmasters would be complaining about Google. Even worse in that I've seen a number of cases where webmasters have interpreted the delay in their site getting reviewed as being due to corruption. Even though this is just due to too few editors compared to submissions. Thus, even if the ODP was squeaky clean people would still call it corrupt. Dunno if Google wants to deal with it.

[Powdork]

The whois shows dmoz.org reserved until january 2004 anallawalla.

Sadly, this is what I found out as well. I already had my credit card out.;)

[anallawalla]

[dmoz.org...] is up again!

[dwilson]

I've tried off & on to access DMOZ over the last month. Most of the time, I can't get anything.

I realize nobody has 100% uptime. But when I was a system administrator we could guarantee 99.9% uptime in any given month -- better if you averaged the whole year. And I was with a fairly low-dollar shop.

[g1smd]

Try [ch.dmoz.org...] for browsing. The mirror site is usually one day behind dmoz.org itself.

There are no submit or edit functions on the ch.dmoz.org site though.

[beantown]

(a non-april update Q)
Is it me or has DMOZ been down or extremely slow loading over the past 7-10 days? Anyone noticing same problems?

[hitchhiker]

I normally get DMOZ 1 out of every 3 clicks.

On a good day. God bless them for being @ the centre of the net, and being unavailable.

[Yidaki]

The org. version is dead slow since months. 3 clicks? - lucky guy! However, dmoz.de is mostly fast.

[Mohamed_E]

> However, dmoz.de is mostly fast.

I am curious, what is the relation between dmoz.de, dmoz.ch, dmoz.at and ch.dmoz.org?

The first three give a copyright notice of:

Copyright © 1999-2002 Netscape, dmoz.ch/.at/.de team

while the last one gives:

Copyright © 1998-2003 Netscape

just like dmoz.org.

[cornwall]

Your answer [dmoz.de]