April 13, 2017
OAKLAND — The city of Oakland’s website was down Thursday for some Internet users because the city had not renewed its domain name, spokeswoman Karen Boyd said.
People trying to access oaklandnet.com were met a placeholder page for a domain registration site, which read, “back order domain, renew now.”
The city’s information technology department has renewed the domain name “but it takes time to propagate” to all the servers, Boyd said.
“Depending on where you try to access it, you may have different levels of success,” the spokeswoman said.
While oaklandnet.com is taken by the city, other similarly named websites are available on Internet domain registrars ranging from $7.99 to $11.99 a year.
http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2017/04/13/oakland-city-website-down-domain-name-not-renewed/
http://www2.oaklandnet.com/
April 14, 2017
The bill was paid, but some links are still broken
http://www2.oaklandnet.com/government/o/CityAdministration/2551-san-pablo-fire/OAK063356
