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I emailed Nintendo.com's email address about Nintendo.co.uk forwarding to Nintendo.com and they gave me an email address for Nintendo of Europe.

I emailed them about the UK website suddenly not there and this is exactly what I had as a reply:

Hi,

Nintendo Europe have been run the UK site from the main Nintendo Europe site
but unfortunately recently it seems to have gone missing. Nintendo Europe
say this should be sorted soon(we hope). Sorry.

Thanks,

Mike,
Hotline UK.

Notice the bad gramma!

Anyway how can a website go 'missing'?

Pasted direct from eterm whois:

Domain Name: NINTENDO.CO.UK

Registered For: Nintendo Co., Ltd.

Registered on 23-Jun-1997.

Record last updated on 12-Apr-2000 by [email protected].

Domain servers listed in order:

DNS1.NINTENDO.COM 205.166.76.132
DNS2.NINTENDO.COM 205.166.76.133

WHOIS database last updated at 13:35:00 28-Jun-2001

Whois lookups return the registrar information and DNS server addresses, but not usually the current IP of the site, or the status/redirection.

Sorry, that's unclear. There's a box at getdotted.com that will do it. You can also run "tracert nintendo.co.uk"

You get linux, and do:
host url

I've never tried doing it through Windows...I assume that there's a command line executable in there somewhere - if not, there are plenty of free apps that can do it, I used to use mIRC (chat client), and do:
/dns url

I'll go have a look for some Windows version of host now.

Do a whois lookup. SR'll do it.

Reaper, how do you resolve a web address to get the IP?

Ok, quick bit of investigating, left me even more confused. If you resolve nintendo.co.uk, it actually points to the IP 212.162.62.221. Fine, except that that site is

a) German, and
b) Not where nintendo.co.uk points...

They run their own DNS servers, and obviously have some strange redirection routine. I'll keep looking around..

Read as: "We've been hacked, and don't want to admit it"

Or: "Some little git has come in and formatted all of our machines, we've lost the code for all forthcoming GameCube games too"

Or possibly: "We're too lazy too update the site, we'll say it's down and have a break for a bit"

Other interpretations?

I emailed Nintendo.com's email address about Nintendo.co.uk forwarding to Nintendo.com and they gave me an email address for Nintendo of Europe.

I emailed them about the UK website suddenly not there and this is exactly what I had as a reply:

Hi,

Nintendo Europe have been run the UK site from the main Nintendo Europe site
but unfortunately recently it seems to have gone missing. Nintendo Europe
say this should be sorted soon(we hope). Sorry.

Thanks,

Mike,
Hotline UK.

Notice the bad gramma!

Anyway how can a website go 'missing'?