Greg.org has a great spin on Gizmodo : Network Solutions Teaches Gawker a Lesson.
More commentary on this, as well as a profusion of Network Solutions observations (to no great surprise, no one has anything at all positive to say about NetSol) at: Techdirt:How Network Solutions Screwed Gawker, Subspace Scribbles - James Woods :: Tonight on Fox...When Registrars Attack!!, Boing Boing: Network Solutions totally bones Gawker Media, brianstorms weblog: You'd Think They'd Know Better..., trainedmonkey, Gizmodo Illustrates Why I Hate NSI, nickdenton: Gawker.com hijacked, Ensight - Jeremy C. Wright » Gawker Suffers From Stupidity?, Paul Roub : blahg: Network Solutions still sucks: film at 11, Gimpysoft, QDN: A few quickies and dsng.net - the daryl sng blog: Gawker Expires.
Many of these recommend GoDaddy as a domain name registrar instead of Network "Solutions" - another good option is Domaindo, which is a GoDaddy reseller set up by the Arizona Internet Professionals Association (GoDaddy is based in Arizona) that usually has even lower prices than GoDaddy itself (but all the back-end, including customer service and such, is still the exact same as if you had gone with GoDaddy directly).
It is also rather interesting to see the effect of all this on Gawker traffic. Looks like Gawker's Site Meter is, at least for the moment, not password protected (perhaps as traffic verification for advertisers?). Check it out at Gawker Counter and Statistics Tracker. The big outage was October 12th, but it is also interesting to see confirmation that nearly all of their traffic comes Monday - Friday during the work week (weekend traffic is nearly non-existent by comparison).
Another interesting stat is that people with Apple Mac OS X and other Macintoshes appear to be way over-represented - around 15% of visitors as of this moment: Gawker Operating System Tracking. So what is the correlation between Mac users and Gawker? Actually, Wonkette appears to be even higher: around 20% Mac!?
And for those Firefox fans, Gizmodo and Wonkette have, as of this moment, around a 20% Firefox browser share! Gizmodo Browser Share Tracker / Wonkette Browser Share Tracker.
Then again, not exactly sure how this is calculated as, upon another check, Gizmodo is at 30% and Wonketter is at 17%???
And now the MacOS stats have changed as well? Gawker is now 9% and Wonkette 22%???! What the?!?
Does any one know how Site Meter actually calculates this stuff?
Also, since you were about to ask, other Gawker Media sites (Gawker, Gizmodo, Fleshbot, Wonkette, Defamer, Jalopnik, Kotaku, Screenhead, and Kinja) that also (at least for the moment!) have open and public Site Meters: Gawker Stats, Gizmodo Stats, Wonkette Stats, Defamer Stats, Jalopnik Stats, Kotaku Stats, and Screenhead Stats
[Note to Nick Denton - yes, you have had a Very Bad Week - this is not meant to add to it - the stats are a fascinating public service (and great marketing!) - please keep them open and public. Thanks!]
Finally, when was the last time a blog went down and was covered by the New York Post?! :-)
UPDATE: This CNET News.com article points out that Nick Denton already directly makes some of the traffic stats public here (so hopefully he will not be offended by this post after all!). The above mentioned Site Meter links are where that data is from - but those links provide many more cool views and info...
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