ATI.COM

[LNCPapa]

Has AMD disabled ATI.com or is it just down for now? Might be worth a short story if it's gone for good.

-LNCPapa

 

[mailpup]

If I type ati.com, it automatically redirects to amd.com. Is that what you are seeing? I'm using FF 12.0

 

[cliffordcooley]

I'm getting a redirect with Opera 11.64 as well.

Edit:
I wonder if this is a side effect of AMD dropping the ATI logo?

 

[LNCPapa]

Nope - not what I'm seeing so nvm

 

[Marnomancer]

Yeah, AMD assimilated ATI a long time ago. Visiting ati.com should automatically redirect to amd.com.

 

[LNCPapa]

I'm just getting a failed redirect which is why I brought this up. It usually redirects for me but it hasn't been since yesterday.

 

[slh28]

I'm just getting a failed redirect which is why I brought this up. It usually redirects for me but it hasn't been since yesterday.

Why do you keep typing in ati.com anyway?

I get a HTTP 400 bad request, using IE7

 

[Marnomancer]

Hmm...redirect prevention add-on, or a setting?
Half the time I'm getting a redirect to amd.com, the other half a DNS lookup failure.

 

[josh7143]

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