Cologroup.net serves pages for administration and on other ports. If you care to look around the net you will see other examples of companies which require a subdoman prefix for their web server.
Outages are experienced all over Cogent's network this evening:
This is the official notice from Cogent describing today's outage. Also
there will be a small outage tonight as Cogent has to replace the
defective card.
If a customer prefers a different uplink like Verio they request that package. I prefer they not complain on the boards about network connections that have nothing to do with our colocation. Or at least they can complain about the network rather than blaming anybody who looks like a convenient**target.