Paypal.com appears to be unavailable

Shutting down the Visa and Mastercard probably didn't change too much, but this for sure will. Think of how much eBay is dependent on PayPal for purchases. This should be an interesting outcome! Even if people don't feel it's morally right, I'm still very impressed by the current "cyber wars" going on. Either way, I don't lose anything. I guess I'm just one of those people that likes to watch the world burn...

Re: Paypal.com appears to be unavailable

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Post by martinkallstrom » Thu, Dec 09, 2010, 7:49 AM UTC

"It's not just you! http://paypal.com looks down from here." http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/paypal.com

Re: Paypal.com appears to be unavailable

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Post by aditya » Thu, Dec 09, 2010, 7:50 AM UTC

martin_k wrote: post #3

www.paypal.com works for most people.

Yup, works here too!

Re: Paypal.com appears to be unavailable

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Post by il » Thu, Dec 09, 2010, 7:52 AM UTC

https://www.paypal.com/ still works, all they're doing is hammering the front page, any transactions over SSL should still work fine.

Re: Paypal.com appears to be unavailable

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Post by FirstHopSystems » Thu, Dec 09, 2010, 7:55 AM UTC

DNS issues?. No 301 Redirect from the server.

Just type https://www.paypal.com to go straight to the web page.

Re: Paypal.com appears to be unavailable

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Post by InclinedPlane » Thu, Dec 09, 2010, 7:58 AM UTC

scottkrager wrote: post #2

Yep, just tried to pay a contractor....no dice.

The https site seems to be up, if your problem was just getting to the homepage.

Re: Paypal.com appears to be unavailable

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Post by CamperBob » Thu, Dec 09, 2010, 8:10 AM UTC

ThePinion wrote: post #4

Shutting down the Visa and Mastercard probably didn't change too much, but this for sure will. Think of how much eBay is dependent on PayPal for purchases. This should be an interesting outcome! Even if people don't feel it's morally right, I'm still very impressed by the current "cyber wars" going on. Either way, I don't lose anything. I guess I'm just one of those people that likes to watch the world burn...

There isn't going to be any burning. What's going to happen is that banks and CC companies will proactively scrub their client lists for anything that looks even vaguely controversial, and hose it before it blows up in their faces.

After this, the banks will be afraid of Anonymous, and they will do whatever it takes to stay off their radar... including turning down a lot of legitimate business. "Politically unconventional" organizations around the world are about to get the same arms-length treatment that adult sites have always gotten.