The registry says the domain expired yesterday.
So for me it's a TLD problem. Domain was brutally closed. Those Americans are very annoying, aren't they ? They should let us do what we want
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What do you want from them? They have their rules in such things and if you don't like, you can simply don't use it. Owner of domain had to realized any following issue already. He could use .com .net which are good and safer (depends on domain register company) or in worst situation, he couls to use .ws .me and etc