IMDb Down

Internet movie compendium IMDb.com went down on June 6, 2008. Users began noticing intermittent down time on the night of June 5. By 4:30 p.m. EDT most users began reporting a complete outage.

IMDb.com is owned by Amazon.com, which also experienced a service outage earlier in the day. IMDb.com appears to have gone offline shortly after Amazon.com was brought back online.

Fast Facts

1. Launched: October 17, 1990
2. Acquired by Amazon.com in 1998
3. Ranked 31st in web traffic by Alexa.com
4. Both Amazon.com and IMDb.com hosted on same domain servers
5. Yahoo! users reported intermittent outage June 5¹
6. Twitter users began reporting issues on the afternoon of June 6²³

Extended Downtime

As of 9:00 p.m. EDT the website is still returning a "server not found" error.

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