Apple may be an unstoppable force in the eyes of its competitors, fans and pretty much everyone else, but no one more so than the webmasters running Apple.com. A couple of hours into the company's "Lets talk iPhone" event Tuesday, trying to access Apple's homepage, online store, and most other sections of its website was like a …

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Tuesday 4th October 2011 19:43 GMT Absent

I went to apple.co.uk and thought I went back in time to the 90s.

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Tuesday 4th October 2011 20:08 GMT gautam

Well deserved fanbois!

Keep shaving yr balls and eventually you will get Iphone5!

Might as well camp outside Regent street store till they finally come out with something utterly new!

Wankers all!

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Tuesday 4th October 2011 20:22 GMT Just a random academic

Who checks these things

apple.com's woes would appear to be due to a compromise of their DNS provider. At the time of posting, their whois reads:

APPLE.COM.WWW.BEYONDWHOIS.COM

APPLE.COM.WAS.PWNED.BY.M1CROSOFT.COM

APPLE.COM.MORE.INFO.AT.WWW.BEYONDWHOIS.COM

APPLE.COM.IS.OWN3D.BY.NAKEDJER.COM

APPLE.COM.IS.0WN3D.BY.GULLI.COM

APPLE.COM.BEYONDWHOIS.COM

APPLE.COM.AT.WWW.BEYONDWHOIS.COM

APPLE.COM

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1. Tuesday 4th October 2011 20:22 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  Re: Who checks these things
  
  Hoaxers - Apple is just fine on this score.
  
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Tuesday 4th October 2011 20:30 GMT Dazed and Confused

They it is you

And we all know El'Reg is banned from all Apple events.

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Tuesday 4th October 2011 21:18 GMT Destroy All Monsters

Why u shave balls?

This isn't Oktoberfest!

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1. Wednesday 5th October 2011 06:26 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  >"This isn't Oktoberfest!"
  
  Hell, it isn't even Movember!
  
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Tuesday 4th October 2011 21:19 GMT Anonymous Coward

Akamai

Looks like it was an akamai outage, seeing as Facebook images went down at the same time with a similar error.

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Wednesday 5th October 2011 06:24 GMT Anonymous Coward

Twitter opinion??

Why are we being given the opinion of a random person on twitter of no significance whatsoever?

Might aswell write down the opinion of the guy who plays his guitar at the local cash machine.

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1. Wednesday 5th October 2011 14:08 GMT Pascal Monett
  
  You haven't watched the news in a long time, have you ?
  
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