omni@dynmc.NET (Gregory A. Carter) writes:

Have a guy that had this emailed from his ISP. If this is in fact true we all could have some very unhappy customers in the comming days. I haven't

I've been hearing similar things since Monday. I didn't see any news reporting, or operational bulletins from NSI early in the week. So I asked some individuals at NSI and other places. Without independently verifying the information, and without getting an "official" spokesperson's story, my understanding of what happened is - Severe storms in Herndon, VA on Sunday - Power outage(s) in the area of NSI's data/telecommunications center - One of the UPS busses failed - Telephone switch and some equipment lost power and rebooted Exactly how everything is connected internally may explain why somethings worked and somethings didn't work - The claim is no data was lost or corrupted due to the power problems But - At the beginning of the month (Monday) NSI was also changing how they cleared out, what they thought were people with large numbers of unpaid domains. Some people say the domain payments weren't due until later in the month, NSI says they can demand immediate payment from people with "lots" of unpaid domains. Since in the past NSI has had a poor track record of doing mass deletes of domains, saying they were unpaid, and then later evidence appearing they were paid or never billed correctly, some scepticism may be warranted. There may be multiple incidents. The fact the power problems came at the same time NSI was changing how they cleared out domains at the beginning of the month is so far just a coincidence. -- Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO Affiliation given for identification not representation