---
title: "Is Crossref Handle servers down? Crossref Handle servers status"
url: "https://www.openstatus.dev/status/crossref/handle-servers"
description: "Live Crossref Handle servers status, uptime over the last 45 days and recent incidents, tracked by openstatus."
---

# Is Crossref Handle servers down?

**Answer:** No, Crossref Handle servers is not down. All Crossref Handle servers systems are operational.

- Status: operational
- Checked: 2026-11-07T00:06:41Z
- User reports in the last 15 minutes: 0
- Part of: [Crossref](/status/crossref.md) / Integrations and external dependencies
- Official status page: https://status.crossref.org
- About: The system that points a DOI at the online location of the content

## Last 45 days

2 of 2 tracked days without issues.

## Incidents affecting Handle servers

| Started | Incident | Impact | Duration |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2025-11-18 | [Cloudflare network problems affecting DOI.org resolution](https://stspg.io/x053j1j3mr63) | major | 7h 10m |

## Links

- HTML page: /status/crossref/handle-servers
- Service: /status/crossref.md