What happened to Google South Africa?

Disappeared

[viggen]

www.google.co.za is not available for some time, it is not even in the index anymore.

I Wwonder what happend

[Marcia]

Still not there. I get taken to Google and get this message if I try to access it

Sorry, no information is available for the URL www.google.co.za

How long have you noticed this?

[viggen]

About two weeks ago i noticed it first that Google SA has been gone. I dont live in SA anymore so I didnt put much thought into it (thought a glitch), then couple of days ago I tried again and still the same - gone.

This is really odd.

[takagi]

ping
Unknown host www.google.co.za

Reverse IP lookup
www.google.co.za = failed to resolve domain

Links to www.google.co.za
AllTheWeb: 17
AltaVista: 6
Google: 2
Inktomi: 6

So it looks the domain existed, but it is not registered anymore.

[g1smd]

South Africa is not mentioned at [google.com...] either.

[GeorgeGG]

Query : www.google.co.za
(Server cannot find www.google.co.za: Non-existent host/domain)

Query : google.co.za
Offical Name = dgear-11.alldomains.com
Aliases =
Addresses = 209.25.140.11

GGG

[Paul in South Africa]

So it looks the domain existed, but it is not registered anymore.

The domain was originally registered in 2001 and is still registered to Google Inc, according to whois.co.za