Seven Seas Site Disappears
Has anyone else noticed that visiting manga/light novel publisher Seven Seas’ website, http://www.gomanga.com, produces nothing but an error? I visited a number of other sites on the host with no problem, so…hopefully it’s just an error on 7S’s account.
I don’t think anything too dire has happened to the publisher, since their most recent releases (March 18, 2008) seem to all be properly in stock on Amazon. Still, it wouldn’t be the first mysterious disappearance, since they pulled the launch title for their yaoi line from the site and refused to comment on their forums or privately about it. Hmm. I wish I had contact information for them, but unfortunately the only way I was ever able to even try and get in touch was via the contact form on their currently non-functioning website. D’oh!
Tags: links, Seven-Seas, western industry
April 4th, 2008 at 8:57 am
Hm, that’s not a good sign. Well, I’ll hope all returns to normal, as I was getting to like them.
April 4th, 2008 at 9:30 am
I need Seven Seas to stay alive. The light novel revolution is dieing so my novel fixes are disappearing.
I need my novels!
This would be a good time to reopen my Japanese textbook…
April 4th, 2008 at 9:31 am
Well, it looks like the a server issue of some sort, as it’s not a 404 or a domain registration issue and it kicks back an error immediately.
Checking other sites doesn’t look like it would give much indication as it looks like they have a dedicated server, given that all the sites hosted on that IP are related to Seven Seas as far as I can tell (and they’re all down).
I can ping the IP so the server doesn’t look like it’s down, so it could be a config issue, or Seven Seas forgot to pay, or maybe they really did go bye-bye, though as you say, that would be weird if their most recent releases have gone out just fine.
April 4th, 2008 at 9:52 am
@Josh: I’m so glad someone more tech-oriented than I looked at it! If all their sites are down and they don’t seem to share with anyone else, could they be under a DDOS attack or something along those lines?
Just random speculation at this point; I also have no idea how long the site’s been down– it was at least up on April 2nd at 7:23pm GMT, because that’s when Google last cached it.
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