am i the first to notice this?

[asmboy]

That microchip.com has let its domain name registration lapse
as of may 23rd ??
And that now the cheese-dick registrar
and erstwhile scam-o-later register.com
is redirecting to ads but not the corporate site?

Only old pages I had in recent cache can be seen
and as of this moment even google redirects you to the
their ultra lame registrar.

[dyeatman]

You apparently are the victim of a poison cache or possibly a virus. The
URL is working fine for me...both directly and via Google
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[asmboy]

yes somebody at microchip got their a** kicked
and the site DNS restored a while ago.

you can see the renewal dates in the WHOIS record for the site

[Ttelmah]

I doubt if it was MicroChip's problem.
It is quite common for major sites to have hiccups like this when their domain comes for renewal. Have seen half a dozen in the last couple of years, where people have paid in advance, yet the automatic system at the domain registration still 'drops' the domain, then reconnects it a few hours later.
Some seem to have an 'automatic' drop, that occurs at usually a time like 1AM, when the domain is due for renewal, while the reconnection, only occurs at the start of business.
A company I was involved with successfully sued the domain registrar involved when this happened...

Best Wishes

[bkamen]