Two major domain registries are offline. Namecheap and Namesilo

[examplens]

I don't know if it is really planned maintenance as they are trying to present, or if it is a well-organized attack.
It must be admitted that the timing is awkward.

🚨We're currently experiencing service disruptions due to a power outage affecting our datacenter in Phoenix.

We're sorry for the disruption this is causing. Our team is working to restore services as soon as possible.

We'll keep you updated here.

https://x.com/Namecheap/status/2087902651124011037?s=20

Spaceship is also owned by Namecheap, but it is not affected by this problem

There is no announcement from Namesilo

[JeromeTash]

There is no announcement from Namesilo

NameSilo also just posted an update a few moments back


https://x.com/namesilo/status/2087986337366286709
It turns out they both share the same data centre provider (https://phoenixnap.com), located in Phoenix, Arizona. I think this explains why both domain registries are experiencing the blackout.

[PX-Z]

This also means a major headache and potentially significant business losses for companies that host their websites or servers with providers such as namecheap or namesilo when their infrastructure is located in the affected data center.

I also doubt that these two are the only providers affected by this data center incident. There are likely other hosting companies, resellers, and services whose infrastructure is colocated or dependent on the same facility.

[robelneo]

This thing can happen, based on my experience in the 6 years I've been at Namecheap; it seldom happens, it's good that they already fix it, but a 24-hour downtime will have a serious impact on your business, and there will be a perception that your business is out, which is why a community based or business based platform should have a social media handle so they can update their clients and communities about the downtime.

[NotATether]

This just makes it even harder for sysadmins and builders to keep their sites online.

So many levels where the web service can go offline, from the hosting, to the registrar's DNS, even to the whole data center's networking. This happened to me recently, and it screwed my services for a few days.

I think the best option now is to keep backups which are packaged in a way that lets you quickly deploy to a different DC.