I just talked to eNom. They confirmed that their DNS servers are experiencing problems. I told the woman who took my call that this is the worst failure I've seen in my ten years of operating websites and that they just lost a good chunk of my business. She told me, "Well, sir, this is affecting us too," as if that made it any better. Then she said, "I've seen this happen before. It happened when I worked at GoDaddy." As it happens, HotkeyNet's main server is hosted at GoDaddy, so I called them next and happened to get a tech who has been at GoDaddy almost since the beginning. He laughed and told me it had never happened at GoDaddy since he had been there and that he has never heard of it happening anywhere in the industry.

Can you imagine eNom's whole DNS system going out? I think they claim to have about 7 million domains. That's 7 million websites that are down or operating intermittently right now due to one failure.

I apologize for this. Before the end of the weekend, HotkeyNet's authorization system will be much more robust. I need to think about it a little bit but I'll probably add a third authorization server. There will be three separate registrars and three separate DNS systems. And of course separate data centers, but that was already the case. If anyone has any other suggestings for making this bulletproof, please let me know.

And I'll fix the buggy error message in the HotkeyNet exe.

Once again, my apologies.