Sri Lanka’s top-level domain (.lk) was used by 1,876 sites in July. Some sites hosted at LankaCom were available early Tuesday night, as was the Sri Lanka Telecom site, but both sites were extremely slow. But Sri Lanka’s official government site and .lk domain registry were not responding.

The damage to the SEA-ME-WE-III submarine cable (short for South East Asia-Middle East– Western Europe) occurred about six miles (9 kilometers) from the shore at Mount Lavinia, the landing point for the cable. In a court petition, SLT alleged that the State of Nagaland was the only vessel in the area at the time of the cut, and that the damage could not have occurred through natural means.