Domain Name System Error: 29 thousand websites around the world including Amazon, Zomato and Paytm stalled; These include many airlines, banks and tech companies.

 

On Thursday, 29 thousand websites around the world including Amazon, Zomato and Paytm were stalled for some time. The websites of these companies either stopped working or their speed became very slow. These include many airlines, banks and tech companies. Apart from this, the apps of OTT platforms like Sony Liv, Hotstar also suddenly went down in the evening.

According to the outage tracking website Downdetector, these websites were temporarily stalled due to a problem with the Domain Name System (DNS). However, now his operation is fine. The websites of these companies were not loading due to the outage. The system was reporting an error in the Domain Name System service.

Cloud service provider company Akamai Technologies (AKAM.O) said that we are looking at problems with Edge DNS service. It is being verified.

Impact on american companies

Big companies in America have been affected more by DNS not working. These include several airlines, banking and IT companies including Delta Air Lines (DAL.N), Costco Wholesale Corp (COST.O) and American Express (AXP.N).

Outage incident happened for the third time in two months

In June, several outages hit social media, government and news websites around the world. This is the third incident of websites being stalled in a span of just 2 months. It was told in the report that the DNS system got damaged due to a service fault of American cloud computing companies. After this, the websites of 29 thousand companies came to a standstill.