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“What would you do for 25% more sales?”
It’s panicked gift-buying season, and I got mail this morning from Boutique Academia, part of their final push before Christmas.
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They’re hoping for some Christmas sales in the next three days. They do make some lovely jewelry – ask Laura about her necklace some time – so I clicked on their mail.
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That’s not good. I like Boutique Academia, and fixing email and dns problems is What We Do, so I took a look.
Safari isn’t quite as bad with not-exactly-truthful error messages as Internet Explorer, but I still don’t really trust it. Perhaps the problem is with the click-tracking domain in the email, rather than with boutiqueacademia.com? So I open the base page at http://boutiqueacademia.com, get redirected immediately to https://www.boutiqueacademia.com – which fails to load.
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OK, start with the basics. DNS.

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