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Did BC Ferries forget to renew its domain name?

By Crawford Kilian August 31, 2009 08:10 pm 7 comments

B.C. Ferries ran into big trouble with its online reservations this afternoon, apparently because someone forget to renew its domain name.

CBC News reported considerable confusion today among persons trying to access the site. Late this afternoon, at a site called TechVibes.com, the answer appeared:

Looks like a head might be about to roll over at BC Ferries. It appears someone forgot to renew the BCFerries.com domain name.

Check the comments to the TechVibes post to see what the likely answer is.

With files from Andrew MacLeod. Crawford Kilian is a contributing editor of The Tyee.

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  • G West

    2 years ago

    Now, please, remind me

    WHO WAS IT THAT COULDN'T MANAGE A POP STAND?

    This government and its agencies and spinoffs are so incompetent they couldn't manage a pay toilet.

  • offended

    2 years ago

    And it's still not working right

    And David Hahn gets over a million bucks a year. Best place on earth to reward incompetence, apparently.

  • Grumpy

    2 years ago

    As with TransLink.............

    ............BC Ferries are so incompetent, they could not even build n outhouse, let alone understand its function!

  • Sam Salmon

    2 years ago

    The Author Forgets!

    A BC Ferries incompetence is the new efficiency!

    Whoever screwed up just before the busiest weekend of the year will be promoted!

    You read it here first!

  • deeby

    2 years ago

    As of noon 09/01 It's still unavailable....

    ...from certain networks. After discovering this yesterday from the LAN where I work, I tipped CBC radio and showed a reporter the site's inaccessibility via WiFi in a downtown coffee shop

    He said it was available from within their building, and I also found it available via my ISP, Uniserve, when I got home. However last night and this morning it's still unavailable on my company's LAN.

    They haven't failed to re-register the name, but somebody's deleted the record of their ownership of it from a major DNS server, and that error is propagating out to other DNS servers, possibly via one of the major 'root' servers.

    This is a massive screw-up on somebody's part, bringing down a major e-commerce site before a high-demand period. Nice of Hahn et al. to communicate with the public about it.

    If anyone *needs* their services, ask around, or hit your local library, university or Web cafe. Uniserve uses Telus as a wholesaler, so I suspect that Telus users may be able to get to the site....

  • G West

    2 years ago

    I called BC Ferries

    And was told it's an IP problem that they're 'working on' .... the waits for operator help are increasing as we speak...

    Sure can't get it on shaw servers deeby....

  • freebear

    2 years ago

    No scew-ups with Hahn's pay cheques I am sure!

    What does the Hahn have to do to get fired (someday)?

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