Medine Limited is listed on the Stock Exchange of Mauritius with a market capitalisation of MUR 10 billion (Euro 244 million) and stands among the top 75 Mauritian companies, and as the most important economic actor of the western region of the island.
I tried to visit http://www.medine.com/. The following browser notification was displayed: "This page can’t be displayed". The browser suggestion was to "Make sure the web address http://www.medine.com is correct".
Based on the Whois record for medine.com and current practice the web site for Medine Limited is www.medine.com.
Domain Name: MEDINE.COM
Registry Domain ID:
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.networksolutions.com
Registrar URL: http://networksolutions.com
Updated Date: 2010-07-08T00:00:00Z
Creation Date: 1998-08-27T00:00:00Z
Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2019-08-26T00:00:00Z
Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, LLC.
Registrar IANA ID: 2
Registrar Abuse Contact Email: abuse@web.com
Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.8003337680
Reseller:
Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited
Registry Registrant ID:
Registrant Name: Abel, Jean-Marc
Registrant Organization: Medine Limited
Registrant Street: Medine Sugar Estate
Registrant City: Bambous
Registrant State/Province:
Registrant Postal Code: NA
Registrant Country: MU
The DNS servers for medine.com are ns17.ixwebhosting.com and ns18.ixwebhosting.com. The following error occurred when I attempted to do a DNS resolution of ns18.ixwebhosting.com: "couldn't get address for 'ns18.ixwebhosting.com': failure". I was able to reach ns17.ixwebhosting.com ("Received 111 bytes from 98.130.253.166#53(ns17.ixwebhosting.com) in 62 ms) from within the United States.
According to its Facebook page ixwebhosting.com provides "Shared, VPS, and Dedicated Cloud Hosting Plans Starting as Low as $3.95 per Month". There was the following message on the Facebook page:
"We are currently experiencing a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack against our services. Our system administration team is working to identify the source IPs and block this attack. We apologize for the inconvenience, rest assured that no data is compromised and we will have services back up as soon as possible. Thank you for your patience."
I initially concluded that Medine Limited no longer had a web site because of the message displayed in my browser. It was not possible to assess the economic impact of customers not being able to reach http://www.medine.com/.
1. https://www.facebook.com/ixweb