Wired News delivered to your inbox or hand-held device. The company said in a statement that it took nearly a day to determine what was wrong and undo the changes. Media Metrix reports that the combined properties, not including news sites, received 54 million unique visitors in December. Technical experts blame Microsoft's design decisions for exacerbating its woes.
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Nominium , a Redwood City, Calif. startup, boasts it has many collections of DNS servers, each with at least two different hardware and OS platforms, and each connected to two different ISPs. But caches began to expire at different times across the Internet yesterday, which meant Microsoft's properties began to fade, gradually, from public view. We had little mini-teams off triaging all of this stuff and eliminating scenarios as fast as we could. Send it . Use this version.