Halfords website

Sp00n · 20 Jan 2011 at 13:00

www.halfords.com

Oh dear, someone didn't re-new it!

Cupra · 20 Jan 2011 at 13:04

what? its working here?

The Halk · 20 Jan 2011 at 13:05

It expired today, and they got a default hosting page for a short time before they fixed it.

DiCe! · 20 Jan 2011 at 13:06

its up for me?

Sp00n · 20 Jan 2011 at 13:06

Cupra said:
what? its working here?

Is it?

I get this:

The Halk said:
It expired today, and they got a default hosting page for a short time before they fixed it.

Ahhh the hosting has expired.

Abraham · 20 Jan 2011 at 13:06

still default hosting page here

Draeger · 20 Jan 2011 at 13:06

LOL. Wonder if it's worth trying to grab it on backorder?.

Abraham · 20 Jan 2011 at 13:06

Sp00n said:
Is it?

I get this:

same here

Abraham · 20 Jan 2011 at 13:07

.co.uk the same

shifty_uk · 20 Jan 2011 at 13:07

lolhalfrauds

Dj_Jestar · 20 Jan 2011 at 13:07

Still hosting page for me too.

Draeger · 20 Jan 2011 at 13:08

That really is a massive commercial fail.

Cosimo · 20 Jan 2011 at 13:10

Working for me:

Draeger · 20 Jan 2011 at 13:15

I'm still getting the default hosting page.

Abraham · 20 Jan 2011 at 13:16

look at the whois for either .com or .co.uk, it's not expired, someone must have reset the DNS

Al Vallario · 20 Jan 2011 at 13:22

simulatorman said:
Working for me:

You have the old DNS entry cached (the one that points to the actual Halfords website).

They haven't renewed the domain yet.

Absolutely catastrophic corporate IT fail

Abraham · 20 Jan 2011 at 13:26

Al Vallario said:
You have the old DNS entry cached (the one that points to the actual Halfords website).

They haven't renewed the domain yet.

Absolutely catastrophic corporate IT fail

It's not due for renewal until Sept. Still massive fail, but a chance it could be someone outside of halfords fault.

Sp00n · 20 Jan 2011 at 13:27

Either way, someone is gonna get a serious spanking

Al Vallario · 20 Jan 2011 at 13:30

Abraham said:
It's not due for renewal until Sept. Still massive fail, but a chance it could be someone outside of halfords fault.

You're looking at the whois details for the halfords.co.uk domain name, this thread is about halfords.com (which the .co.uk address redirects to, hence is suffering the same problem).

The .com expired on 14th January, their registrar has retained it for renewals or backorders, and presumably after a week of attempting to contact Halfords to renew the name, have now taken ownership of the DNS records.

Halfords will get it back, there's no question about that, but in the meantime it's good entertainment and is likely costing them a fair whack in lost sales!

Wicksta · 20 Jan 2011 at 13:33

It's been renewed now, and is working fine for me:

Record expires on 14-Jan-2017.
Updated Date: 20-jan-2011

Not sure what the TTL was set to before but it's at 300 now (normal practice to set it low for an important DNS change). It was probably 84600 before so will be ok for you guys tomorrow.