Hotstar Website Down: The Hotstar Crashes After Forgetting To Renew Domain
Hotstar Website is Down: The Hotstar Crashes After Forgetting To Renew Domain. The video streaming platform crashed on Friday as countless users were engrossed in watching the India-Australia Test cricket match.
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But even as Disney+ Hotstar assured that they were working to bring things back to normal, enterprising netizens realized that the company must have forgotten to renew its domain name in time.
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While it is impossible to say conclusively that this was the cause of the outage, domain registrar records show that Hotstar renewed it on February 17.
Several people on social media platforms shared screengrabs of the domain data, implying that Disney had lost ownership of Hotstar for the time being. com.
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If this was indeed the case, it would take some time for the changes to reflect for all users – corroborating. With a sudden increase in complaints lodged by the web reliability monitoring service DownDetector.
Meanwhile the company cited “unexpected technical issues” with its app and web without disclosing any details.
Identified issue affecting access to Disney+ Hotstar:-
“We have identified the issue affecting access to Disney+ Hotstar and hope to resume normal operations soon.
We regret the experience and appreciate everyone’s patience,” Hotstar had assured in a tweet and several netizens complained via social media platforms.
The outage came amid the ongoing high-profile Test series in India-Australia. While Hotstar is one of the most popular streaming services in the country. It recently lost the streaming rights for the upcoming IPL tournament.
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Reports quoting analysts suggest that the setback could also dent its customer base in India.
