Several readers wrote in to note that the .de domain (Germany), which is operated by DENIC [1], had an unplanned outage earlier that lasted a bit over an hour.

There is no official statement yet, but according to one source [2], a bad zone file was loaded and it took a while to fix.
Currently, .de domains appear to be reachable again.
[1] http://denic.de/ (in German)

[2] http://www.tld.sc/en/
------

Johannes B. Ullrich, Ph.D.

SANS Technology Institute

Twitter
===================================================
The outage looks like it was from approximately 13:30 to 15:30 local time (CEST)
================= Rob VandenBrink ==================== (c) SANS Internet Storm Center. http://isc.sans.org Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.