Oxford Dictionary Outage on October 20, 2026
Incident report for the Oxford Dictionary (oxforddictionaries.com) outage on October 20, 2026. This page is the canonical incident summary and outage details record — outage timeline, outage duration, peak reports, and what caused this incident (where known) plus how detected the event. For deeper post mortem analysis once available, the operator's own status page is usually the source of record.
Oxford Dictionary (oxforddictionaries.com) experienced a 4h service disruption on October 20, 2026, starting at October 20, 2026 at 08:01 AM UTC and resolving at October 20, 2026 at 12:01 PM UTC. The outage was confirmed through our dual-signal detection pipeline. The extended duration historically correlates with cloud-provider or DNS-level incidents rather than application-layer issues.
Incident details
Our checking infrastructure ran 0 automated HTTPS probes during this window (October 20, 2026 at 07:01 AM UTC through October 20, 2026 at 01:01 PM UTC). We use a dual-signal monitoring pipeline that combines automated HTTPS probes with crowd-sourced user reports to detect and verify outages.
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