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404: "The requested URL /blog/2010/01/Dear-EarthLink-Customer-Support.html was not found on this server."

going directly to http://www.charlespetzold.com/ yields a placeholder saying:

"This domain is powered by EarthLink Web Hosting."

Not for me, at the moment.

It's very likely there's a DNS conflict. EarthLink probably never removed his records from their DNS servers, so Earthlink customers (and anyone else that uses EarthLink DNS) is getting a different result than others are.

...although, I can't corroborate that on 207.69.188.185, .186, or .187, so maybe not. But I do find it hard to believe that Earthlink "hijacked" anyone's domain name.

This happened to Charles Petzold! A living programming god. Time for the flaming torches and pitchforks if you live anywhere near Atlanta.

The drop in customer service quality from Mindspring to EarthLink after that acquisition was rough; I bailed after a couple of years.

The article doesn't provide any details; I'm quite curious _how_ this happened. And how did it stop?

Dear EarthLink Customer Support