Technical Difficulties with City of Austin Website

Visitors to the City of Austin's website were surprised to be re-directed this afternoon to a page saying the "US Locality domain you are searching for has been given back to Neustar Registry to manage." The City's Public Information Office quickly followed up on a phone call to their office with this Tweet:

If you're experiencing difficulties viewing our website, try www.austintx.gov Thank you for your patience as we work on this!

A spokesperson reached by phone said she was not sure what the problem was, but the City was working on it and Austin's website should back up shortly.