Domain expiry
Their web site now redirects to www.internic.co.uk so im assuming it's a simple domain expiry rather than a hack.
The website for UK tabloid The Mirror has been unavailable all day. Visitors to www.mirror.co.uk are met by a blank page. A spokesman for Trinity Mirror Group, the paper's owners, could only tell us the site had been down since first thing this morning and techies were working to fix a "technical glitch". He did not know …
Just slow.
As an aside, whilst waiting for the page to load I noticed that the CSS classes for the page are hosted by icenetwork.co.uk
Interesting only because after browsing to their website I get the following message -
"Hello..."
"Welcome to IceNetwork"
"There's not much to see I'm afraid"
"So piss off"
Ha!
schoolboy error. the domain doesn't go anywhere near internic and it does have nameservers
whois mirror.co.uk
Registrant's agent:
Trinity Mirror Digital Media Ltd [Tag = TRINITYNEWMEDIA]
URL: http://www.mirror.co.uk
its just slow, probably a DDos cause they've miffed someone.
pure and utter speculation.
Looks like it's DNS issues rather than domain expiry - the whois record for themirror.co.uk shows it as registered till 14th June 2006.
NS records for the domain are ns[12].zales.co.uk - zales.co.uk was registered by the same person that registered themirror.co.uk - and www.zales.co.uk goes to Internic as well, so looks like a DNS/hosting issue rather than domain expiry/hacked website
A whois shows that their domain has not expired.
Their nameservers however appear to have disappeared. They don't respond to a ping. Even if they are there (but with ICMP blocked) they certainly aren't serving up domain information for themirror.co.uk
The servers are :
ns1.zales.co.uk.
ns2.zales.co.uk.
Anyone who can reach the site must be working on cached domain information.
Google tells me that the web site for The Daily Mirror is www.mirror.co.uk
A quick whois on themirror.co.uk shows it to be a "UK individual" not a limited company.
It looks like www.themirror.co.uk is a small scarlet fish and is just domain sitting by "Andrew Michael Phillips".
But, this doesn't explain why there is no response from www.mirror.co.uk