Update (Monday 19th): Almost 70 hours on 123-reg have put the same status message back after removing it (Last Update: Monday at 10:41) showing that the problem is still ongoing!!!

I’m moving back to running my own DNS servers in the near future, avoiding the muppets that are 123-reg “technical” staff.

Largely due to my recent developments for the iPhone visits to this site, and iapps.co.uk, have increased phenomenally in recent days - better still some of those visits have become work, therefore money… everything was looking great until Friday.

As of Friday most of my 123-reg domains stopped working, after contacting them it seems that they were aware of a “wide spread outage” however what seems to have happened is that their systems no longer recognise ns.hosteurope.com as being their own DNS servers! - The web-based control panel wouldnt let me manage my domains because they weren’t pointed at ns.123-reg.co.uk / ns2.123-reg.co.uk … having worked fine for years.

All of my domains have failed and come back sooo many times on Friday I’ve lost count - I don’t know what they’re playing it - worse still they put up their own holding page (and advertisments) on my domain names!! - that’s tantamount to domain squatting and is likely to damage my search engine placement!

Worse still this is affecting my clients, which makes me look bad even though there’s nothing I can do about it. Guess it’s time to go back to managing my own DNS servers, either way I will be migrating all of my domains off 123-reg.co.uk - and complaining to ICANN and Nominet about their actions regarding pointing active domains to their own advertisments - I for one do not appreciate having my name used to promote a company that I have no affiliation with.

In summary, 123-reg is cheap if you just want a domain name - but use something like everydns.net or zoneedit.com for your DNS. Apologies to anyone who was affected by this, particularly people trying to use my iPhone apps!