That didn’t take long: weblogs.com did notify the universe about weblog updates. For years. More and more weblogs existed, and weblogs.com got sold to Verisign. A real infrastructure company.
Those put the ping service on their own servers five days ago.
With the result that it is broken since four hours. I think that the privately run weblogs.com was offline for so long in the 20 months that I was pulling data from it.
Let’s see how quickly they are back up, and what the ripple effects are for the blogosphere.