Facebook is down for many users around the world, with some reporting that Facebook.com is also unavailable. The outage began at around 1 p.m. PT and appears to be affecting a wide range of users, from those in the United States to people in Europe and Asia. So far there are no reports of any serious issues stemming from the Facebook outage, but it’s possible that could change as more people experience problems. In the meantime, if you’re unable to access Facebook or Facebook.com, there are other ways to stay connected with friends and family online. Facebook has been experiencing outages before, but this one is particularly widespread and troubling because it affects so many different parts of the world at once. If you’re having trouble accessing either Facebook or Facebook.com, please let us know in the comments below or on our social media channels! ..
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Is Facebook.com Down?
According to Down Detector, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Oculus VR, all owned by Facebook, started suffering from outages at around 11:40 am ET.
For its part, WhatsApp acknowledged the issue on Twitter. It said it was “working to get things back to normal and will send an update here as soon as possible.”
The social network had to take to Twitter, a rival social network, to say, “We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products. We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience.”
— Facebook (@Facebook) October 4, 2021
But Facebook.com Is For Sale?!
Major websites being attacked and shut down is nothing new. But where this one gets interesting is that someone managed to nuke the DNS A and AAA records for Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, meaning the domain names are listed as available, according to Chad Loder on Twitter.
— Chad Loder (@chadloder) October 4, 2021
We also verified that the domain was available via DomainTools, and you can see it for yourself here.
Obviously, you won’t be able to purchase Facebook, as it’s likely that the DNS was just hijacked, and everything will be restored to normal at some point shortly.
Either way, this has been a rough day for Facebook and its services, and people everywhere are experiencing incredible boredom without access to their favorite social network.
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