YouTube disappeared from the internet for between 1-2 hours today.
YouTube went down around 11:30am PST and came back some time later.
The interesting side of the outage is an allegation from OpenDNS that Pakistan Telecom hijacked YouTube’s IP address space resulting in a worldwide outage. They note that the issue was subsequently rectified by PCCW, but it raises the question: is it really that easy to take one of the largest destinations online down?
There is no official word from YouTube as yet on the cause of the downtime.