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Press and attribution
Damn Is It Down (DIID) is an independent outage tracker run by Big Toy Market LLC. We measure services with our own checks, anonymous user reports and companies' public status pages. Accuracy beats speed. A report on this site is our measurement, not a statement of fact about any company, and not an endorsement, audit or affiliation.
How we measure
Three signals: our own HTTP checks from several regions, anonymous user reports compared with the usual volume for that hour, and the vendor's status page when one exists. We only call something a confirmed outage when it passes our evidence gate.
How we detect, verify and correct outages
What "confirmed" means
Confirmed means our own checks failed and the incident passes the same evidence gate as our public explainer pages, alerts and the Business SLA report (the SLA counts confirmed incidents only since Nov 10, 2026). A vendor status-page notice alone, scheduled maintenance, a short blip, or a report spike while our checks still reach the site is not a confirmed outage. We label those clearly. Retracted reports stay public with a correction.
Accuracy and retractions. The evidence gate.
How to attribute our work
If you republish or rely on our data, include a source line like this:
Source: Damn Is It Down (independent checks), https://damnisitdown.com/outages/…, retrieved YYYY-MM-DD.
Please keep the "independent checks" wording, link the permalink, and include the date you retrieved the data. Do not imply that we endorse the company or that our figures are an official SLA or a statement of fact about that company. Outage explainer pages include a copyable citation with the confirmed or possible label.
The reliability leaderboard is also available under CC BY 4.0 at /reliability.
Using the data
This data is provided as is, for information only. It can be wrong or late. It is not a guarantee, not actuarial or underwriting advice, and not a statement of what any vendor owes.
Live status, history and outage lists are in our public API. Status badges and embeds are documented at /badges. Monthly reliability is at /reliability.
Free press API key
Working journalists and newsrooms can request a free API key for higher limits, the confirmed filter, deeper history and CSV or JSON bulk export. Email support@bigtoymarket.com with your name, outlet and a line about the story. We issue keys by hand; there is no self-serve press signup. Paid API access is $19/month for everyone else.