American Samoa flipped the switch
American Samoa’s .as domains are popular in Norway, and possibly other places.
Somehow, I guess their renewal invoices didn’t really work as they said, because a lot of domains haven’t been renewed, for some reason or another.
Some time in the last few days, they flipped a switch. Domains that hadn’t been renewed (some are years out of date) suddenly don’t work.
There are probably a lot of frustrated people out there right now, who don’t get their e-mail, and whose homepages don’t work.