Übersportingpundit, the Australian based sports blog to which Brian Micklethwait, David Carr, and myself also contribute, has been down for a couple of days because the domain name expired without being renewed. Normally I think one should laugh at someone whose domain expires the way you would laugh at someone whose car has run out of petrol, but blogmaster Scott Wickstein assures me that he did not receive a renewal notice. (Perhaps it was swallowed by a spam filter or something). In any event, for those who have noticed, the site is back up. As a bonus, non-Australian readers can read and take pleasure in the fact that the Australian cricket team is not doing so well in its first test match against Sri Lanka.
Also, we should observe that Scott has suffered so much from the loss of his blog that he has been driven to writing guest posts for Samizdata. So give him some sympathy.
Oh no it isn’t.
Well, these things sometimes take a little while to propagate around the DNSs of the world. It was working for me this afternoon, and it is still working now.
You’re right. It is now.
Hmm, the little brown dudes are whuppin up on da Aussies? Mayhaps that world cup win in ’96 wasn’t such a fluke, then.
Oh, I don’t think many people think that 96 was a fluke. Sri Lanka won because they put an extremely good cricket team on the field, and they have been a good to very good side consistenly since then. They are particularly hard to beat at home, as we are seeing in this match.