Lycos and Hotbot Down

For a while it looked as if HotBot was gone - to become just another part of Internet History. Forget getting to Hotbot, I could not even resolve its DNS address. Upon further investigation, it looked like Hotbot UK was ok.

So...

Think process goes that if Hotbot is gone, then Lycos would have some sort of new message about it (they own HotBot). Guess what, Lycos had the same issue!!!
Every Lycos site in the US including their news, mail and main site were down. I noticed the Canadian site for Lycos down as well.

Now something has gone terribly wrong here. The way the internet is designed, there should have been redundancies built in so that both Lycos and Hotbot could be resolved if the primary DNS was out.

Should be interesting to see what the press release about this comes out as. One would suspect a major stuff-up on the side of their ISP or Registrar.

We wait....