[PW] What Happened to gethuman.com?

[Dan Goodman]

I'm in the US, and I get there using either Firefox or IE.

Ivan Van Laningham wrote:

> Hi All--
> I'm in the US and can't get there.  When I ping www.gethuman.com, the 
> answer comes from 64.34.169.74, which resolves to server1.f7.net.
> 
> Corresponding answers for www.kayak.com are:
> 
> 69.8.201.107, resolves to a973.b.akamai.net
> 
> Neither IP address has a useful webpage.  The former has a page with the 
> word "consort" on it (probably a hostname) and the latter evokes an 
> error page with "Invalid URL /" on it.
> 
> Someone not in the US should try the same pings.
> 
> Metta,
> Ivan
> 
> Peter Macinnis wrote:
>> Even in Norway gets to the requested site.  I am in Australia and I get 
>> the requested site, not www.kayak.com -- Charles, could this be a 
>> US-specific ploy to block the site from those most needing it, the USians?
>>
>> Such parochial things DO happen on the domain name servers of the 
>> "worldwide" web.  There are times when I need to avoid being diverted to 
>> the Australian Google site (that diversion is the default in Oz), so I 
>> have a bookmark for http://216.239.39.99/ which is Google in the US.
>>
>> peter
>>
>> Even Flood wrote:
>>> On 9/11/07, Charles Early <charles.t.early at nasa.gov> wrote:
>>>> Even, I'm still getting redirected to http://www.kayak.com/.
>>>>
>>>> At 12:23 PM 9/11/2007, you wrote:
>>>>> And to ad to this, I find http://gethuman.com/ is up and running. And
>>>>> different from the other two mentioned, BTW. Charles, give it another
>>>>> try, maybe it was a glitch.
>>>>>
>>>>> Even
>>>>>
>>> This is strange, I get to the site you describe at this url, copied
>>> and pasted as follows:
>>> http://gethuman.com/ or with three www in front.
>>>
>>> Hm.
>>>
>>> Even
>>>
>>>
>>
> 


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