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TexasTowelie

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Thu Apr 13, 2017, 07:47 PM Apr 2017

Oops, Oakland city website down; domain name not renewed

OAKLAND — The city of Oakland’s website was down Thursday for some Internet users because the city had not renewed its domain name, spokeswoman Karen Boyd said.

People trying to access oaklandnet.com were met a placeholder page for a domain registration site, which read, “back order domain, renew now.”

The city’s information technology department has renewed the domain name “but it takes time to propagate” to all the servers, Boyd said.

“Depending on where you try to access it, you may have different levels of success,” the spokeswoman said.

Read more: http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2017/04/13/oakland-city-website-down-domain-name-not-renewed/

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Oops, Oakland city website down; domain name not renewed (Original Post) TexasTowelie Apr 2017 OP
The City of Oakland's website is a .com? n/t PoliticAverse Apr 2017 #1
Making government run like a business... TexasTowelie Apr 2017 #2
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