Further to yesterdays speculation
“Surprisingly, none of the coverage that we have seen to date has considered the possibility that it might be a well executed scheme aimed at increasing international awareness of the site.”
The performance report does, however, suggest there was a significant spike in response times just before the site went off the radar, and, perhaps more significantly the site was transferred to Akamai distribution at the same time. Still, at least they’re giving us an ‘access denied’ message, rather than serving us a different site.