The official site of the Bombay High Court continues to be severely problematic. In June, just before Court reopened, we received a complaint that the site and the daily cause lists on it did not open.

This morning, matters are even more bizarre. The site appears to have been hacked or hijacked — by the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board. Don’t ask why.

Or is this some magnificent Freudian slip?

Where is the Disaster Management Cell when you need it?

Incuriosity not being among our stronger suits, we did ask why. And here’s what we’ve been told. Last Tuesday, NIC migrated some sites. The local ISPs (Hathway chiefly) have not picked up the new IP-domain mapping and their Domain Name Servers are still dishing out the old mapping. Of course, having migrated the BBA site several times in the past without even a two-minute glitch, we can’t understand what this means or what an internet service provider has to do with the NIC webhost, servers and domains. But never mind. Ever mysterious are the ways of the computer department.

Here’s the temporary link: High Court website.

Performance not guaranteed.