In spite of typo's in their DNS records, Al Jazeera's web site has moved to France and back online. Be sure you get the current IP address for aljazeera.net (213.30.180.219). Al Jazeera's name server records are still a mess, and I don't think you can really blame the Pentagon for them aljazeera.net. 15M IN SOA ns3.aljazeera.net. dnsadmin.nav-link.net. ( 2003032802 ; serial 3H ; refresh 1H ; retry 1W ; expiry 15M ) ; minimum aljazeera.net. 15M IN NS ns1sa.navlink.com. aljazeera.net. 15M IN NS ns3.aljazeera.net. aljazeera.net. 15M IN MX 10 mail.aljazeera.net. aljazeera.net. 15M IN A 213.30.180.219 The NS record for ns1sa.navlink.com appears to be a typo, no such server exists. I suspect the correct NS is ns1sa.nav-link.net (217.26.192.26), which is not responding or the NS in the NSI registery aljns1sa.nav-link.net (217.26.193.15) which also isn't responding.