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Thousands of Websites Go Down in Global Outage

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   Thousands of websites around the world were unreachable Thursday in
   what appears to have been a problem with a widely used content
   distribution network.
   Akamai, said on its website that it was experiencing "an emerging issue
   with its Edge DNS service." Later, the company said the issues had been
   resolved.
   "We have implemented a fix for this issue, and based on current
   observations, the service is resuming normal operations," Akamai
   tweeted. "We will continue to monitor to ensure that the impact has
   been fully mitigated."
   DNS, or Domain Name System, is a directory that links domain names with
   machine readable internet protocol addresses.
   Some of the larger websites impacted included Delta Air Lines, British
   Airways, Capital One, GoDaddy, Vanguard, UPS, LastPass, AT&T and
   Costco.
   Some services were already starting to return as Delta reported its
   online services were back up, according to CNBC.
   What caused the outage remains unknown.

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