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The official site of Opera in China was shot down just before this noon. :ninja:

Starting in the afternoon, the domain is now an "Art" site selling some cheap fake paintings. :alien:

Update1:

Words from an Opera staff:

http://www.operachina.com/viewtopic.php?f=...2ab37ced#p34791

It WAS miibeian at work.

operachina.com is, at this moment, temp. back.

Edited by serafins
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The official site of Opera in China, operachina.com, was shot down just before this noon. :ninja:

Starting in the afternoon, the domain is now an "Art" site selling some cheap fake paintings. :alien:

The correct subdomain is cn.opera.com

<a href="http://jp.opera.com">jp.opera.com</a> | <a href="http://ru.opera.com">ru.opera.com</a> | <a href="http://pl.opera.com">pl.opera.com</a> | <a href="http://de.opera.com">de.opera.com</a> | <a href="http://cn.opera.com">cn.opera.com</a> | <a href="http://tw.opera.com">tw.opera.com</a> | <a href="http://in.opera.com">in.opera.com</a>

The correct subdomain is cn.opera.com

I'm talking about the official forum in china.

I'm (was?) a Mod of the customization section. BTW

As a skin making contest being held is interrupted,

I'm thinking how to talk the Admin into giving me one of the prizes,

a wii and an iPod nano 4G included,

if it cant be resumed.

Oh, and you sir, tiagosilva29, may throw the link of my.opera.com into my face,

sorry, the people in China are blocked from it.

Edited by serafins
save it.

I'm talking about the official forum.

I'm (was?) a Mod BTW.

Sure.

Which is also linked in the chinese page.

<a href="http://my.opera.com/community/">My Opera 社区</a>

Check the webarchive if you can find when they zapped it into a store.

Edited by tiagosilva29
is this what people called "ownage"?

Not really. Ownage is you being deprived from your forum by miibeian. How's it like to live in China?

No drop. No game. No fun.

Technical Name ..................

Technical Organization ..........

Technical Address ............... TianHe JunJinRoad No.73

Technical City .................. GuangZhou

Technical Province/State ........ GongDong

Technical Postal Code ........... 510665

Technical Country Code .......... CN

Technical Phone Number .......... +86.02038663887 -

Technical Fax ................... +86.02038663887 -

Technical Email ................. [email protected]

Expiration Date ................. 2008-08-12 07:48:31

You better start contacting NIDC.

Edited by tiagosilva29
This probably isn't so much about the Chinese government as it is about capitalism, and that someone forgot to pay their domain renewal fee. :rolleyes:

I wished it was the case, but I had contacted Opera staffs.

It is not news to me that some sites are suddenly gone, they made people gone, which is not news either.

How's it like to live in China?

You better start contacting NIDC.

I might answer the Q. if my mother didn't flee mainland china just months before giving birth to me.

I don't think Opera can get around like that, for the sake of their business in china.

Edited by serafins

Server miss-configuration, DNS screwup, who knows.

The DNS points to the same IP (My server and their name server agree), going to www.operachina.com gives me a page with some crap on it, going to operachina.com gives me another site (even that page says the URL is different).

Maybe somebody was adding a new site to the server, and messed up the server configuration (pointing the domain to the wrong folder)

Server miss-configuration, DNS screwup, who knows.

The DNS points to the same IP (My server and their name server agree), going to www.operachina.com gives me a page with some crap on it, going to operachina.com gives me another site (even that page says the URL is different).

Maybe somebody was adding a new site to the server, and messed up the server configuration (pointing the domain to the wrong folder)

tiagosilva29 is correct on miibeian.

I should have kept a screenshot showing the message from them this noon, which could save a lot of guessing.

my fault.

sorry tiagosilva29, you're a man with healthy skepticism.

I made this too playful, which indeed is really sad.

Edited by serafins
typo... shot down.

Why? Did they give any reason? Oh wait, they're the chinese government, of course not.

I'm pretty sure it has nothing to do with the chinese government, but more like a server screwup. Currently it says " Server under maintenance, expected to be back up on Sunday". Actually it seems the "communist" government likes Opera quite a lot, they made it the default browser of their government-controlled, biggest mobile portal site.

This probably isn't so much about the Chinese government as it is about capitalism, and that someone forgot to pay their domain renewal fee. :rolleyes:

the current chinese government is all about capitalism anyway :rolleyes:

How's it like to live in China?

three words.

Money. Piracy. Tor. :laugh:

Update1:

Words from an Opera staff:

http://www.operachina.com/viewtopic.php?f=...2ab37ced#p34791

It WAS miibeian at work.

the forum is, at this moment, temp. back.

Haha, according to babelfish... translated it means "Is not the misunderstanding, at present the up-wind commits a crime..."

Yay for automated translators, but at least it is better than characters most here probably can't read.

How exactly is China "communist"? It is leaning more towards a fascist dictatorship...

40 years ago maybe, currently it's more like raw barbaric capitalism...

it seems too many people still live in the 1960's :woot:

Update1:

Words from an Opera staff:

http://www.operachina.com/viewtopic.php?f=...2ab37ced#p34791

It WAS miibeian at work.

the forum is, at this moment, temp. back.

So it IS indeed capitalism at work... and bureacracy... :laugh:

Edited by wellofsouls
there is bureacracy of course, if there is gov.

if the your gov. take down neowin.net at any time they like, blame capitalism, or has the Patriotic Act granded that?

when there's some greedy goverment guys taking down websites who don't pay them money, it's what you get with barbaric raw capitalism combined with bureaucracy and corruption. everything needs money, doctors will happily watch you die if you don't have money to pay them to treat you, and money can solve all problem, you can buy out the Patriotic Act if you have enough money. you can even get through the "harmonization" :woot:

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