If I tracrt to mysterbin.com I get the following:

C:\Users\Pinky>tracert mysterbin.com

Tracing route to mysterbin.com [38.101.213.240]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms [removed] [192.168.1.254]
2 16 ms 16 ms 16 ms lns20.mel6.internode.on.net [150.101.212.45]
3 16 ms 15 ms 17 ms te2-2.cor2.mel6.internode.on.net [150.101.208.69
]
4 177 ms 177 ms 177 ms gi0-1-6.bdr1.mel6.internode.on.net [150.101.212.
81]
5 177 ms 177 ms 177 ms te2-0-0.bdr1.cbr1.internode.on.net [150.101.160.
173]
6 177 ms 177 ms 177 ms xe-0-0-1.br1.syd4.iinet.on.net [150.101.160.170]

7 177 ms 177 ms 177 ms te0-0-0.bdr1.syd6.internode.on.net [150.101.197.
1]
8 177 ms 176 ms 177 ms pos1-0-0.bdr1.lax1.internode.on.net [203.16.213.
190]
9 184 ms 185 ms 184 ms xe-7-0-3.edge2.LosAngeles9.Level3.net [4.53.230.
45]
10 184 ms 184 ms 184 ms ae-4-90.edge1.LosAngeles6.Level3.net [4.69.144.2
08]
11 188 ms 187 ms 187 ms te0-0-0-3.ccr21.lax04.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54
.13.145]
12 187 ms 187 ms 187 ms te0-4-0-7.mpd22.lax01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54
.84.113]
13 187 ms 187 ms 211 ms 154.54.88.14
14 238 ms 238 ms 239 ms te0-0-0-2.mpd21.atl01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54
.24.5]
15 239 ms 238 ms 239 ms te0-2-0-7.ccr21.atl01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54
.25.117]
16 239 ms 239 ms 238 ms vl3877.na31.b000442-8.atl01.atlas.cogentco.com [
38.20.62.222]
17 323 ms 309 ms 378 ms te4-1.mag02.atl01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.81.
26]
18 239 ms 239 ms 240 ms notset.namecheap.com [38.101.213.240]

Trace complete.

C:\Users\Pinky>

So you can see that it never reaches mysterbin.com

If I use Internode looking-glass ( http://looking-glass.internode.on.net/lg.cgi ) I get:

Tracing the route to mysterbin.com (38.101.213.240)

1 gi1-2-950.cor1.syd6.internode.on.net (150.101.199.50) 0 msec 0 msec 0 msec
2 gi6-0-0-134.bdr1.syd6.internode.on.net (150.101.195.229) 152 msec 148 msec 148 msec
3 pos1-0-0.bdr1.lax1.internode.on.net (203.16.213.190) 152 msec 148 msec 152 msec
4 xe-7-0-3.edge2.LosAngeles9.Level3.net (4.53.230.45) 152 msec 148 msec 152 msec
5 ae-2-70.edge1.LosAngeles6.Level3.net (4.69.144.80) 152 msec
ae-1-60.edge1.LosAngeles6.Level3.net (4.69.144.16) 152 msec *
6 Cogent-level3-2x10G.LosAngels.Level3.net (4.68.70.62) 148 msec
te0-0-0-3.ccr21.lax04.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.13.145) 148 msec 148 msec
7 te0-0-0-17.ccr22.lax04.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.87.242) 148 msec
te0-4-0-7.mpd22.lax01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.84.113) 152 msec
te0-3-0-7.mpd22.lax01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.44.1) 152 msec
8 te0-3-0-6.mpd22.iah01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.0.254) 188 msec
te0-1-0-6.mpd21.iah01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.5.101) 184 msec
te0-4-0-7.ccr21.lax01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.84.117) 152 msec
9 te0-1-0-6.ccr22.iah01.atlas.cogentco.com (66.28.4.237) 188 msec
te0-1-0-3.ccr22.iah01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.44.253) 188 msec
te0-1-0-6.ccr21.iah01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.0.226) 188 msec
10 te4-1.mag02.atl01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.81.26) 200 msec 200 msec 196 msec
11 te0-2-0-0.mpd22.atl01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.28.62) 200 msec
te0-1-0-0.mpd22.atl01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.28.50) 200 msec
te0-2-0-0.mpd22.atl01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.28.62) 196 msec
12 38.104.183.162 196 msec
te4-1.mag02.atl01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.81.26) 196 msec
38.104.183.162 212 msec
13 mysterbin.com (38.101.213.240) 200 msec
vl3577.na31.b000442-8.atl01.atlas.cogentco.com (38.20.62.218) 204 msec
mysterbin.com (38.101.213.240) 200 msec

Which traces fine.

I flushed the Windows dns cache with "ipconfig /flushdns" in case that might help, but no joy.

It's pretty suspicious. As far as I can tell I'm running a clean system. Nothing strange in drivers/etc/hosts or in HKLM/blah blah/run or anywhere like that.

I've only noticed this problem with this specific website :-/

If I use a 'down for me or everyone' type of site to check, it says it's online - for me it times out in all browsers.

tracert is doing a reverse DNS lookup to get the hostname for the final hop.

# host 38.101.213.240
240.213.101.38.in-addr.arpa is an alias for 240.192-26.213.101.38.in-addr.arpa.
240.192-26.213.101.38.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer notset.namecheap.com.

or using dig:

# dig -x 38.101.213.240

; <<>> DiG 9.9.1-P1 <<>> -x 38.101.213.240
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 24332
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 512
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;240.213.101.38.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR

;; ANSWER SECTION:
240.213.101.38.in-addr.arpa. 43200 IN CNAME 240.192-26.213.101.38.in-addr.arpa.
240.192-26.213.101.38.in-addr.arpa. 14400 IN PTR notset.namecheap.com.

;; Query time: 208 msec
;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8)
;; WHEN: Wed Nov 28 20:26:51 2012
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 115

Could be a balancer thats fucked

Also Habib wins for diag

Fuck damn it!

https://twitter.com/mysterbin_com/status/270462032082501632

WARN
Stealth nameservers One or more stealth nameservers discovered. This means that one or more nameservers are not listed at both the parent and authoritative nameservers. This can be confusing and can cause delays or other hard to diagnose inconsistencies. The stealth nameservers discovered are:

173.224.125.12 has nameserver dns5.registrar-servers.com. | listed where other nameservers do not.
69.160.33.75 has nameserver dns5.registrar-servers.com. | listed where other nameservers do not.
184.171.163.91 has nameserver dns5.registrar-servers.com. | listed where other nameservers do not.
208.64.122.244 has nameserver dns5.registrar-servers.com. | listed where other nameservers do not.
38.101.213.194 has nameserver dns5.registrar-servers.com. | listed where other nameservers do not.
50.7.230.26 has nameserver dns5.registrar-servers.com. | listed where other nameservers do not.
WARN
Stealth nameservers respond One or more stealth nameservers failed to respond. Having stealth nameservers is not optimal or recommended, and if those stealth nameservers are not responding to queries for your domain, it can lead to some very hard to diagnose problems and inconsistencies. This should be addressed. The stealth nameservers that failed to respond are:

dns5.registrar-servers.com. | No Glue