Youtube? **Updated**

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Not sure if it's my Safari browser, verizon internet, or macbook because I can't seem to get these youtube videos up on my blog.  Sorry for that.  I couldn't even get to the website for some reason. Anyone else have this problem?


More to follow.

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From what I can ascertain, it is a standard maintenance issue.  "Rumor" has it, it'll be back up in an hour or two.  

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It has been officially relaunched and is back in business.  (For most people I guess...it's still not working for me).  It's amazing how many people's lives were interrupted by this.  I guess the world stopped spinning there for a few hours.

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Back in business.  The world has continued to function despite millions of videos on YouTube. Interesting.  And for those of you who commented, I thought my email inbox was going to explode.  Where did you all come from and how did you find me?  Would be curious to know...have a wonderful day!



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28 Comment(s)

I'm in NJ near PA, i've got safari, i've got Verizon and I too cannot get the youtube. Wonder if it's a verizon thing or an area thing

May 3, 2008 8:16 AM
Anonymous  

Massachusetts, IE, same thing, no YouTube.

May 3, 2008 8:40 AM

I can't get YouTube in Firefox or Internet Explorer. (I have Verizon also, in MA.) The name won't resolve.

May 3, 2008 8:42 AM

Maryland..ditto....gettin no love from youtube

May 3, 2008 8:47 AM

No, looks like YouTube has crashed. Not available in Canada for the past forty minutes. Same message about the site not able to open or the url not existing.

May 3, 2008 8:49 AM
Anonymous  

japan.... no youtube!!

May 3, 2008 9:36 AM
Anonymous  

St. Louis here - no youtube.

May 3, 2008 9:39 AM

Comcast in Harrisburg (Soon to be a FIOS user)

No youtube here as well. :-(

May 3, 2008 9:40 AM
Anonymous  

Also down in the UK

May 3, 2008 9:41 AM
Anonymous  

From the Netherlands:
No youtube either..

May 3, 2008 9:43 AM
Anonymous  

Comcast, Pennsylvania (near Philadelphia), no Youtube. But my friend in Arizona (Comcast) says it's working fine AND fast for him.

May 3, 2008 9:44 AM
Anonymous  

UK here and no Youtube

May 3, 2008 9:48 AM
Anonymous  

From Portugal, no YouTube here either.

May 3, 2008 9:50 AM
Anonymous  

Correction: friend in Arizona's on Cox, not Comcast.

May 3, 2008 9:50 AM
Anonymous  

I think in my opinion, it is the RIAA, they can't leave even Youtube alone. They can't stand people creating own contents. If youtube was taken offline by the RIAA. It will not force me to buy any CD's nor listen to the RIAA tunes.

May 3, 2008 9:50 AM
Anonymous  

Youtube down (from upstate NY)

May 3, 2008 9:51 AM

www.youtube.com not resolved in Italy too.
IP address http://208.65.153.251/ looks sloooooooooooow and mostly broken.
FYI, youtube's subnets:
208.65.152.0/22
208.117.224.0/19
64.15.112.0/20

May 3, 2008 9:51 AM

Relax, people, it's just a domain hijack. YouTube will be back soon.

http://khyri.livejournal.com/120703.html

May 3, 2008 9:56 AM
Anonymous  

$ host www.youtube.com
www.youtube.com has address 208.65.153.251
www.youtube.com has address 208.65.153.253
www.youtube.com has address 208.65.153.238

a little bit of youtube straight via one of their ip addresses:

http://208.65.153.251/

is there, but not quite..

May 3, 2008 9:58 AM
Anonymous  

Dayton, Ohio (Earthlink through Time Warner Cable) no youtube here either.

May 3, 2008 10:00 AM
Anonymous  

Tucson, AZ - youtube down for at least the last 1/2 - ISP = Cox

May 3, 2008 10:07 AM
Anonymous  

New Zealand here, 2:14am. Cant ping youtube, cant see youtube. resisting urge to do other things.

May 3, 2008 10:14 AM
Anonymous  

It is thankfully back and proprogating the internet with new DNS.

May 3, 2008 10:18 AM

Its back up now. Everyone can relax. The NSA hasn't pulled the plug yet...

May 3, 2008 10:19 AM
Anonymous  

St. Louis here again - youtube back up.

May 3, 2008 10:19 AM

Looks like youtube is back up now. Thanks for the IP address. Domain hijack, you think?

May 3, 2008 10:20 AM
Anonymous  

greetings, im the commenter from japan. .... hours ago, when i wanted to know what was up with youtube, i typed "youtube" into google news, and the first thing to come up was either your blog or something that linked directly to your blog. i suspect that many of the other random around-the-world commenters did the same thing.... thus, all the comments.

May 3, 2008 2:24 PM

Thanks my friend from Japan. I was a bit weirded out by that...don't normally get that many hits here in small town Pennsylvania :)

May 3, 2008 4:00 PM

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