Apparently EditGrid let their domain name (editgrid.com) expire, and at present, anyone using their excellent shared spreadsheets is without access to them. What gets returned when someone currently visits www.EditGrid.com has been a 403, a parking page, and a 404 in the past 24 hours.
This morning, I did some sleuthing and found the working IP address of the www.editgrid.com web site. I have regained access to my spreadsheets by adding this little tidbit to my /etc/hosts file:
209.157.66.183 www.editgrid.com
I didn’t notice the outage you describe. I was able to log in and edit spreadsheets through http://www.editgrid.com every day this week.
Today, however, although I can log in. No spreadsheets will open. Not mine, not any public spreadsheet that I tried. Hangs indefinitely with a “Transferring…” progress bar.
I’ve used editgrid for 6 years. Every time there’s an outage like this I get nervous, because there’s no way to report them and no communication whatsoever from the staff (if there is any). Each time, it comes back up in a few hours. But one of these days, I fear it will stop working permanently with no warning or announcement.
I’ve been migrating my spreadsheets to Google Docs, but still have a ways to go before that project it complete. I wish someone there would at least provide periodic assurance that we’ll be given an opportunity to do a final export before the lights go out. If I had that, I’d stick around.
There’s an entry on the Wikipedia article that says Apple bought the company. It would seem that there’s no longer any staff dedicated to EditGrid, but when circumstances necessitate it, resources are allocated.
I can’t think of any other reason why the domain would have expired (nobody paying attention), but then get restored a day or two later.
One would think that EditGrid would make a great iCloud companion to a future version of numbers.