Yes Diana, you are right on the extent of the trouble and when I figured it I wrote to the head of ancestry.com. I don't know if it was a coincidence but the list(s) when back a few days afterwards.   Didier Diana answer : > It wasn't just a few lists that were down, the entire rootsweb.com domain was > down. > > Beginning a week ago Monday, when it first went down, I pinged the domain off > and on for several days, and got no responses. What had me worried sick is that > it went down just after Ancestry announced it would cease to support GenForum, > MyFamily, and some other sites. To my relief, I started getting a live ping > several days ago, and now, as we've seen, it's coming back online. > > They didn't tell us what was going on at the time, and they aren't going to tell > us what happened after the fact. Any information as to what brought them down, > how they fixed it, and what measures they are taking to prevent it happening > again, would only aid the hackers if divulged to the public. > > I'm just glad the lists came back online! > > Diana > > > I wrote : > > List, I know several on this list have been bounced out once again. Moreover > > the list was down technically for several days. I have been trying to reach > > people from rootsweb but ALL links nd addresses were down during these last > > few days. Eventually I tried to join people from ancestry.com and it seems > > that the problem rooted there though I didn't get any detailed answer. I am > > still trying to figure out what's going on but the problem seems to be be on > > all rootsweb and beyond my head. Sorry for the recent unconveniences and I > > hope fruitful discussion can start again. Tha administrator of the list y-dna- > > haplogroup-i@rootsweb.com Didier Vernade