Facebook blames "faulty configuration change" for nearly six-hour outage | Reuters
Facebook Inc blamed a "faulty configuration change" for a nearly six-hour outage on Monday that prevented the company's 3.5 billion users from accessing its social media and messaging services such as WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger.
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DNS host/ip/name removal could be caused by a configuration issue.
However domain deregistration showing that facebook.com domain was available to purchase does not happen by configuration error. A domain is purchased from a domain registrar for a period of time and renewed.