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
- Launched: October 17, 1990
- Acquired by Amazon.com in 1998
- Ranked 31st in web traffic by Alexa.com
- Both Amazon.com and IMDb.com hosted on same domain servers
- Yahoo! users reported intermittent outage June 51
- Twitter users began reporting issues on the afternoon of June 6
Extended Downtime
As of 9:00 p.m. EDT the website is still returning a "server not found" error.
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