I, too, was curious why AMD would have taken down the ATI web site... I generally type the site (I.e. 'ATI') and press CTRL+Enter in the address bar, which adds the leading '
http://www.' and trailing '.com'. That being said, the reason for the occasional failed redirect is due to a misconfiguration on AMD's part.
Notice, if you type ati.com (no 'www'), it will 302 redirect to
http://ati.amd.com/
However, if you type
www.ati.com, you will receive an HTTP/1.0 400 Bad Request...
More specifically:
---response begin---
HTTP/1.0 400 Bad Request
Server: AkamaiGHost
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 193
Expires: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 08:23:08 GMT
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 08:23:08 GMT
Connection: close
---response end---
This likely was due to a load-balancing configuration, with some traffic hitting Akamai, when ATI had much more traffic. It's difficult to tell what server is misconfigured, or if Akamai simply didn't receive payment for services
.
Hope this eases someone else's curious mind .... At least it's [probably] not browser hijacking!
--Josh