The Google error message felt a bit too harsh for a webhosting client who merely exceeded their allotted bandwidth. It made it sound like the website was hosting something illegal.
2016-10-04 13:00 GMT-03:00 Philippe Verdy <verd...@wanadoo.fr>: > It looks that an automated bot run by Google detected an excessive use of > bandwidth and launch the block, waiting for another subcription or payment, > even if the site was (possibly) donated by Google itself. That bit probably > does not know what it does and acts like any other hosted site. (Google's > own usage policy is probably more enforced now: you can host free websites > but above some threshold it will be blocked). > > Note also that this is the webhosting which is blocked, not the domain > name (hosted by Apple who probably offered it to the Consortium). > > There's probably been a lack of communication somewhere in Google, or an > administrator error that removed an exception for a site that should have > first been handled specially internally by a human hierarchy. > > If the usage limit was exhausted, may be this is because the site was > harvested by some malwares and I think it's reasonnable to block it first > before scanning, cleaning, restoring damaged parts from a safe backup, and > investigating about which protection measures were missing or should be > taken). > > There's certainly people looking for what happend precisely. I hope this > is just an administrative measure that can be easily reversed and that no > damage happend to CLDR data (and to private data there about CLDR surveyors > or user authentication databases). I don't think there's damage on the > released CLDR data, but there could be losses in some recent ongoing works. > > 2016-10-04 15:53 GMT+02:00 Steven R. Loomis <s...@icu-project.org>: > >> Yes, the web content is hosted by google sites, a web hosting provider. >> >> As to it being down, i understand this is being looked into. >> >> Enviado desde nuestro iPhone. >> >> El oct. 4, 2016, a las 5:51 AM, Cristian Secară <li...@secarica.ro> >> escribió: >> >> În data de Tue, 4 Oct 2016 19:50:05 +0800, gfb hjjhjh a scris: >> >> Why is the site suspended by Google and how to access it now? >> >> >> Just curious: Unicode = Google ? (physically) >> >> I am asking this because by entering directly http://cldr.unicode.org >> the error result belongs to Google and not to unicode.org. >> >> ? >> >> Cristi >> >> -- >> Cristian Secară >> http://www.secărică.ro <http://www.xn--secric-k0ad.ro> >> >> >