Weird 'Services for this domain name disabled' error on another site

[DaveC426913]

TL;DR Summary

Today I am getting this weird error on this site I frequent. It does not make sense.

"An Error Occurred​

Services for this domain name have been disabled."

The error console isn't very helpful either:
"Uncaught (in promise) Error: A listener indicated an asynchronous response by returning true, but the message channel closed before a response was received"

Other .js errors suggest it is having trouble finding the document object - i.e. that it doesn't exist:
service_worker.js:1 Uncaught ReferenceError: document is not defined

• This just popped up this morning, Been like this for 3 hours now.
• I am experiencing it on two different computers - my work computer and my home computer.
• Not everyone is experiencing it, for example, it's working for @pinball1970 just fine. He has kindly reached out to the admins there to try to resolve this.
• Donning my Googles, I see virtually no references to this message save one which talks about hosting issues.

I'm sure this will get resolved in the next 24 hours or so, probably with the site admin spanking the server or me clearing my cache and logging in again, but I suspect that will not shed any light on what exactly is happening here and why.
Thoughts?

 

[pbuk]

"Services for this domain name have been disabled."
...
Thoughts?

They haven't paid their bill, or have been taken down by their CDN or web host for some other reason.

 

[DaveC426913]

They haven't paid their bill, or have been taken down by their CDN or web host for some other reason.

Not everyone is experiencing it, for example, it's working for @pinball1970 just fine. He has kindly reached out to the admins there to try to resolve this.

 

[jack action]

It seems to be linked to DNS caching, most likely from a website hosted with InfinityFree.

• https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/services-for-this-domain-name-have-been-disabled/39273/6
• https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/error-services-for-this-domain-name-have-been-disabled/38838

For more info about DNS caching: https://forum.infinityfree.com/docs?topic=49237

 

[DaveC426913]

It seems to be linked to DNS caching, most likely from a website hosted with InfinityFree

Paging @pinball1970 to confirm that you are still able to access the site.

Which means it's not a domain issue.

www.sciforums.com

 

[jack action]

www.sciforums.com is a blank page for me.

Using host, I get:

> host www.sciforums.com
www.sciforums.com is an alias for 77980.bodis.com.
77980.bodis.com has address 199.59.243.228

Bodis is a domain parking platform.

 

[DaveC426913]

www.sciforums.com is a blank page for me.

Using host, I get:

> host www.sciforums.com
www.sciforums.com is an alias for 77980.bodis.com.
77980.bodis.com has address 199.59.243.228

Bodis is a domain parking platform.

Yes. I get the error message but the js fails even to locate the document element.

 

[pinball1970]

I'm getting the same screen

 

[pinball1970]

"Services for this domain have been disabled"

 

[jtbell]

I tried the site just now, and it opened OK for me.

 

[pinball1970]

Paging @pinball1970 to confirm that you are still able to access the site.

Which means it's not a domain issue.

www.sciforums.com

Seems to be ok now.

 

[DaveC426913]

*whew* Don't know what I would have done for my daily dose of pseudoscience and trolling!

Thanks @pinball1970 !

 

[jack action]

Now it works for me as well and ...

> host www.sciforums.com
www.sciforums.com is an alias for sciforums.com.
sciforums.com has address 162.0.209.68
sciforums.com mail is handled by 5 mx1-hosting.jellyfish.systems.
sciforums.com mail is handled by 10 mx2-hosting.jellyfish.systems.
sciforums.com mail is handled by 20 mx3-hosting.jellyfish.systems.

So it had to be a DNS thing. They may have changed hosting companies - now with NameCheap - and the DNS propagation wasn't handled very well.

 

[berkeman]

www.sciforums.com

Gee, thanks a lot guys. I decided to open up that website to look around, and there was a big note at the top saying to "Click to Continue". But I could sort of see the forum list behind that, so clicked on Physics and Math, and got yet another "Click to Continue" notice that covered everything. When I clicked on that, it took over my computer and yelled at me that I had a virus and would need to download Windows Defender (or something) to fix it.

I used ctrl-alt-del to kill all my Firefox windows, which shut up the takeover, and then had to restart my laptop to get back to normal. Hmmm

 

[DaveC426913]

Gee, thanks a lot guys. I decided to open up that website to look around, and there was a big note at the top saying to "Click to Continue". But I could sort of see the forum list behind that, so clicked on Physics and Math, and got yet another "Click to Continue" notice that covered everything. When I clicked on that, it took over my computer and yelled at me that I had a virus and would need to download Windows Defender (or something) to fix it.

I used ctrl-alt-del to kill all my Firefox windows, which shut up the takeover, and then had to restart my laptop to get back to normal. Hmmm

What???

 

[pinball1970]

Gee, thanks a lot guys. I decided to open up that website to look around, and there was a big note at the top saying to "Click to Continue". But I could sort of see the forum list behind that, so clicked on Physics and Math, and got yet another "Click to Continue" notice that covered everything. When I clicked on that, it took over my computer and yelled at me that I had a virus and would need to download Windows Defender (or something) to fix it.

I used ctrl-alt-del to kill all my Firefox windows, which shut up the takeover, and then had to restart my laptop to get back to normal. Hmmm

Oh dear! We have anti virus software and we get alerts if something is not safe at work which is where I opened it last. Not on this tablet though.

 

[pinball1970]

What???

I'm going to bravely suggest someone else tries to open it, they can then feedback.
I am right behind that person who does that (a good few miles behind...)

 

[jtbell]

I didn't see anything suspicious, just an ad at the bottom, maybe via Google. It looked like the ads that I see here when I'm not logged in. This was using Safari on my IMac or iPad, don't remember which.