Thanks to Microsoft, no-ip.com domains and subdomains experienced outages due to Microsoft hijacking no-ip domains to capture traffic from infected hosts. Their intention was to only affect the websites that were malicious but instead they affected malicious and non-malicious websites as well (like zitstif.no-ip.org).

http://www.noip.com/blog/2014/06/30/ips-formal-statement-microsoft-takedown/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/07/01/sorry_chaps_microsoft_unborks_legitimate_noip_users_domains/

I want to thank Microsoft for their recent mistake and I also want to thank them for the wonderful user interface Metro on Windows 8 that is alienating desktop computer users. All Microsoft needs to do now is cut off support for Windows 7…