compaq.com strangeness?

[Michael Bryan]

icculus4128 at my-deja.com wrote:
> 
> We had some complaints that users couldn't get to www.compaq.com today.
> It turns out to be a DNS resolution issue, apparently.

Looks like compaq.com has dropped out of the root/gtld nameservers, as of
sometime yesterday (6/6/2000).  Only one server has their information,
g.root-servers.net, with the "com" zone dated 2000060501.  All other
servers have the "com" zone from 2000060601 or 2000060700, and compaq.com
is not in the zone in those versions.  Nobody has the 2000060600 zone file,
so I don't know if it was present then.

My guess is that they forgot to pay their bill with Network Solutions.
The NSI payment page does not list any payments currently due, so if this
is what happened, somebody has just paid the bill online.  The domain
should reappear in the root/gtld nameservers within the next 24 hours,
and then everything will be ok.