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Whoops, Where Sweden's Web Sites?

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By Jill R. Aitoro October 14, 2009 comments

We hear a lot about cyberattacks, but here's an "oops" moment that hurts:

"Last night, a routine maintenance of Sweden's top-level domain .se went seriously wrong, introducing an error that made DNS lookups for all .se domain names start failing. The entire Swedish Internet effectively stopped working at this point. Swedish (.se) websites could not be reached, email to Swedish domain names stopped working, and for many these problems persist still."

Read the full report in Royal Pingdom.

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