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Is NASDAQ's XML feed down?

I noticed a couple of days ago that the free XML feed from NASDAQ has been inoperative, returning an empty root XML node, and has yet to come up.  I first got wind of this after noticing that a custom stock ticker server control several months back (http://www.kuam.com/techtalk/nasdaqcompositecustomservercontrol.htm), was showing up blank. 

I checked the source, and sure enough, NASDAQ was empty. 

Something similar happened to the free http://weather.interceptvector.com/ XML feed for weather data about a year ago.  I, and several others, used to tap that service for its great features.  The guy who ran it (a nice dude, I corresponded with him a couple times), took it offline after apparent repeated problems.

Comments

Brian Swiger said:

It's not down...but they are requiring partnership with them. You have to email or call and they will send you a differing URL with a sponsorship number as a querystring value that you pass to get the valid XML. The tech I spoke with did talk of bringing it down and replacing it with pay-only service. That'd suck for me.
# January 26, 2004 2:54 PM

David Eichner said:

Can you give me the contact info to get a sponsorship number?
# January 29, 2004 4:43 PM
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