I was confused by this Gawker issue for a long time, because no Gawker links at all worked for me whichever computer I was on, so I couldn't understand why people were submitting links to Reddit, or how Gawker were still getting any readers at all.

Someone pointed out to me that when I hit the url, I was being redirected to e.g. uk.kotaku.com and the issue appeared to be unaffecting American users, which goes some way to explaining away my confusion.