Oops!Tech Central wrote:It appears that state-owned airline, SA Airways, forgot to renew its Internet domain, flysaa.com. The domain was suspended at the weekend pending payment by the national carrier.
It was not immediately clear how long the website was offline, but Web users visiting flysaa.com on Sunday morning were greeted with a message from domain registration company Network Solutions stating that “flysaa.com expired on 17 January 2010 and is pending renewal or deletion”.
The service appeared to have been restored by midday on Sunday, though many Web users were still saying they could not access the site. This could mean that the service was back online, but the domain name system servers, which map human-readable Web addresses to machine-readable Internet Protocol numbers, still needed to refresh.
Investigation by TechCentral on Sunday suggested SAA wasn’t directly to blame for the downtime. Rather, a company called In The Net Technologies, based in Randpark Ridge, north-west of Johannesburg, appeared to be responsible for maintaining the flysaa.com domain on the airline’s behalf.
Flysaa.com, with its online ticketing system, is integral to the carrier’s business. The website downtime could have cost it millions of rand in lost revenue.
According to Arthur Goldstuck, MD of research firm World Wide Worx, flysaa.com is probably the country’s biggest e-commerce website. “SAA carries about 6,5m passengers a year, with an average ticket price of about R2 000,” he said. “A conservative estimate suggests at least 25% of these tickets are booked online, which would amount to around 2,1m tickets at an average of R2 000 each, amounting to R4,2bn/year, or roughly R11,5m a day (at least). That’s a fairly expensive day for a [domain renewal] that should only have cost around US$10.”
SAA spokesman Vimla Maistry declined to comment and said the airline was drafting a statement to explain the downtime on the website.
National carrier offline as flysaa.com website suspended
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What a bunch of noobs!
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Remember kids, if its important then write it in your diary.
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lol, this is banana republic material...
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Typical for African Run Countries...
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anybody actualy surprized?
good advertisement with the World Cup and all...
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Well I am certainly surprised!
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Slightly On Topic.. SAA / Mango / Banana Airways, have decided to have tickets from JHB to CT for R3400 during the. 2010 world cup
What a RIPOFF
A friend is flying to Australia.. one way during that time costs as much as a return flight.. and coming back is 14K ??!!
What a RIPOFF
A friend is flying to Australia.. one way during that time costs as much as a return flight.. and coming back is 14K ??!!
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Just so you all know this wasn't directly SAA's fault, it was the company that has the contract for their website that failed to renew the domain. But SAA do need to take ownership of this problem and I was a bit disappointed with the letter on their website outlining how it had nothing to do with them. I guess they're trying to do the least damage to their reputation as they can...
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You'll find that all the other carriers will have unreasonable prices too!Anthro wrote:Slightly On Topic.. SAA / Mango / Banana Airways, have decided to have tickets from JHB to CT for R3400 during the. 2010 world cup
What a RIPOFF
A friend is flying to Australia.. one way during that time costs as much as a return flight.. and coming back is 14K ??!!
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Which is why the OP said ...Knuckles wrote:Just so you all know this wasn't directly SAA's fault, it was the company that has the contract for their website that failed to renew the domain.
Investigation by TechCentral on Sunday suggested SAA wasn’t directly to blame for the downtime. Rather, a company called In The Net Technologies, based in Randpark Ridge, north-west of Johannesburg, appeared to be responsible for maintaining the flysaa.com domain on the airline’s behalf.