Indian fans were left in limbo during the first day of the second Test match between India and Australia in Delhi today. Enjoying the match from the comfort of their homes/offices on streaming platform Disney+Hotstar, host broadcaster Star Sports Network’s designated streaming app, numerous fans didn’t know what to do when the platform stopped streaming the match all of a sudden.
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Not known to trouble its users on the back of unexpected bugs, Disney+Hotstar registered an exception on Friday especially when the match was in an interesting phase.
As is the general notion among people whenever one of these leading apps face an error, most of them rushed on social media platform Twitter to know the reason behind Hotstar issue today. In the absence of a concrete reason at first, fans didn’t mind sharing memes with respect to the OTT platform on Twitter.
Hotstar, when Australia is batting good against India. #hotstar #CricketTwitter #INDvsAUS pic.twitter.com/8Mmj33EKbl
— Himanshu Pareek (@Sports_Himanshu) February 17, 2023
Number of viewers watching Border-Gavaskar trophy on #hotstar right now. pic.twitter.com/EhFY5KqYQQ
— Krishna (@Atheist_Krishna) February 17, 2023
#hotstar server down
Meanwhile me : pic.twitter.com/r61FVhWNom— sid (@realsid85) February 17, 2023
People who were watching the match on hotstar.#hotstar @DisneyPlusHS pic.twitter.com/lzbo4e3ECZ
— Satyam Shree 🇮🇳 (@Satyamcsk) February 17, 2023
#SonyLIV to #Hotstar today pic.twitter.com/qyy9qCeKXJ
— Lokesh Kaza (@LokeshKaza) February 17, 2023
People running to Twitter to check hotstar down problem be like #hotstar pic.twitter.com/sMMComz8Zl
— Asid Hoque (@asid_hoque) February 17, 2023
Why was Hotstar not working today?
It was only after the circulation of various memes that a user named Atul Karmakar shared a screenshot of Hotstar’s domain expiry on the same platform. For those who don’t know, any website has to renew its domain after a certain time period. Fans faced the “Player failure in Hotstar” error because someone had missed their domain expiry date.
LOL, no wonder the entire #Hotstar website is down – their domain expired and they’ve just renewed it a while ago 😂 Someone is gonna get 🔥 for this #INDvsAUS #INDvAUS pic.twitter.com/keGy4UlIEb
— Atul Karmarkar (@atulkarmarkar) February 17, 2023
Just read a reason why Hotstar has been down. Can’t stop laughing right now.
Domain expired and someone forgot to renew it. Woah… if that’s true, this year’s Diwali bonuses are already out of the window. 🤦🏾
— KSR (@KShriniwasRao) February 17, 2023
If truth be told, it is unexpected for a platform of this level to face a domain expiry issue. What made matters worst was the same happening at the time of a live Border-Gavaskar Trophy Test match. The app, however, started to work normally after the domain was renewed (for the next 10 years).
Speaking about the first two sessions at the Arun Jaitley Stadium on Friday, Australia scored 199/6 in 56 overs before Tea, Day 1, after captain Pat Cummins won the toss and chose to bat for the second time in a row. With Peter Handscomb and Cummins set to resume proceedings in the evening session, the visitors would be hoping for them to build a solid partnership leading to a respectable first innings total.
