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Orbitz just cratered.

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by royrusso July 18, 2008 10:25 AM PDT
They must host on Mac servers.
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by gazzonyx July 18, 2008 10:26 AM PDT
Between RHEL and MS DNS patch issues, they probably got hit by one or the other either on site or upstream.
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by all-usernames-in-use July 18, 2008 10:51 AM PDT
Jeff in sales was disappointed with recent visitor numbers, so they decided to take the site down in order to generate some buzz on CNET blogs.
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by jessestay July 18, 2008 2:28 PM PDT
I saw it - it also came up last night around 1 or 2am.
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