2 of my sites are missing

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The server at my site.com can't be found, because the DNS lookup failed. DNS is the network service that translates a website's name to its Internet address. This error is most often caused by having no connection to the Internet or a misconfigured network. It can also be caused by an unresponsive DNS server or a firewall preventing Google Chrome from accessing the network.


My sites are blogger custom domains, so I thought all of this stuff was handle by them.
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  • Could this be the problem GoDaddy Outage Takes Down Millions Of Sites, Anonymous Member Claims Responsibility | TechCrunch
  • Im thinking the same thing...lots of posts about GoDaddy being down. Just be patient Im sure they will have it back up shortly.
  • Thanks for the info guys, it was just up and running a couple hours ago, than I was checking some links in magic submitter to see if they were good and bam, site is down.
  • Blogger affected by godaddy? Surely google uses its own servers or doesn't it provide nameserver service also?
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  • Just posted this on the other GD thread (scary):

    Anonymous: Message to Go Daddy - YouTube
  • Both sites are back.
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    • Good to hear. I thought google used it's own servers dns as well.

      Chad
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    All of my Blogger sites are up as of this comment.

    I don't think Godaddy host anything for Blogger, I would be very surprised If they hosted anything for Blogger.

    Nest28, did you buy your domain from Godaddy & are you forwarding the Blogspot sub-domain to a paid domain on Godaddy account?
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    • I buy directly through blogger but it's also through Godaddy as Paulgl stated.Blogger and Godaddy have some sort of partnership.
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    All I know is the Godaddy dude shot an elephant, lol, remember that?
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    • Yes - yet another reason not to use GoDaddy.
  • This should be the scenario when you get a custom name with blogger.

    1. Register name for site at blogger.
    2. Go Daddy does the registration behind the scenes
    3. Go Daddy points the dns at Google
    4. From then on the dns servers of the internet know to talk to Google for your blogger site.

    If number 3 is actually not happening and Godaddy does your dns, then I could see where Godaddy issues could hamper your blogger site, but I can't belive Google wouldn't require Godaddy to point he dns to them, that gives Google much greater flexibility.
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    • Yes, google uses their own servers. Godaddy just points to them. That's
      the part that that got messed up. But the same would be true about
      any site you use, like godaddy, and pointing your domains to blogspot,
      if that site got hacked. Godaddy just had a major break in, other
      hosts burp all the time.

      The relationship between google and godaddy, is that there is a
      very SIMPLE way to point DNS to google for blogspot. That's
      it. Nothing more, nothing less.

      1. You don't have to use godaddy.
      2. You don't have to use a custom domain for blogspot.
      3. Blogspot blogs were not down, just routing via godaddy.

      Paul
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    2 of my sites are missing

    The server at my site.com can't be found, because the DNS lookup failed. DNS is the network service that translates a website's name to its Internet address. This error is most often caused by having no connection to the Internet or a misconfigured network. It can also be caused by an unresponsive DNS server or a firewall preventing Google Chrome from accessing the network.