What Happened to Ping.fm?

UPDATE: Ping.fm’s Sean McCullough posted in GetSatisfaction that the problem is indeed a mess-up by — wait for it — GoDaddy. The Ping bots are still at work behind the scenes for users with bookmarklets, etc.

The ever-popular multi-microblog posting site Ping.fm is currently showing up as a GoDaddy spam page (see screenshot). I presume this is a temporary mistake as I’ve seen nothing indicating otherwise and I know the Ping.fm guys to be responsible Web 2.0ers who wouldn’t accidentally let their domain name lapse… what could it be? Am I just up too late and spying a late-night migration?

is ping.fm down?

I landed at the mysterious GoDaddy page after clicking a link from this recent Steve Rubel tweet, fwiw:

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Andy Sternberg is Chief Strategy Officer and founding partner at Adler Integrated. He's also an adjunct instructor of digital (multimedia) journalism at USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. Find him on Google and Twitter @andysternberg.
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One Response to What Happened to Ping.fm?

  1. Johnbrunifreeborn says:

    hi can i ask? basically i connect all my networks via ping.fm and run them through rss feed… I wonder right now it wasn’t working… is there something wrong about ping.fm? or have you also encounter same as I do? thanks!

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