Well, it is back up now. They claim Emergency Maintenance: http://status.namecheap.com/archives/18453 Still pending from them on whether the below notification is fake or not. The DNS zone itself appears to be correct. On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 12:18:14PM -0500, Chuck Anderson via Outages wrote:
It looks like NameCheap is down. It may have been hacked, because I got a Security Notification from them about a domain I have.
Website is offline
No cached version of this page is available. Error 522 Ray ID: 1bbc4b52c02609be Connection timed out
http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/www.namecheap.com
It's not just you! http://www.namecheap.com looks down from here.
Check another site?
The e-mail says:
Received: from mta.messagebus.com (mba1056.namecheap.messagebus.com [108.175.18.57]) From: "Namecheap.com - Security Notification" <support@namecheap.com> Subject: Security Notification
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Namecheap.com Activity Notification ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear <name>
There was some activity in your namecheap account. Information on what type of change occurred is available below.
Notification For : HOSTS Date : 2/20/2015 11:36:09 AM IP Address : 192.168.1.10 Username : <username> Domain (if relevant) : <domain>.org
Old Details -----------
Host Information ------------------
New Details -----------
Host Information ------------------
Name: www Type: CNAME Address:parkingpage.namecheap.com. Name: @ Type: URL Address: http://www.<domain>.org/?from=@
Additional Information ---------------------- N/A
Thanks, Namecheap.com http://www.namecheap.com
host 108.175.18.57 57.18.175.108.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer mba1056.namecheap.messagebus.com. whois 108.175.18.57 [Querying whois.arin.net] [Redirected to whois.messagebus.com:4321] [Querying whois.messagebus.com] [whois.messagebus.com] %rwhois V-1.5:003fff:00 rwhois.messagebus.com (by Network Solutions, Inc. V-1.5.10-pre6) network:Class-Name:network network:ID:MESSAGEBUS-BLOCK1.108.175.16.0/20 network:Auth-Area:108.175.16.0/20 network:Network-Name:MESSAGEBUS-BLOCK1.108.175.106.0 network:IP-Network:108.175.16.0/20 network:IP-Network-Block:108.175.16.0-108.175.24.0 network:Organization;I:Message Bus network:Tech-Contact;I:hostmaster@labs.messagebus.com network:Admin-Contact;I:hostmaster@labs.messagebus.com network:Created:20120706 network:Updated:20130313 network:Updated-By:hostmaster@labs.messagebus.com
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