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GoDaddy Goes Down, Anonymous Claims Responsibility

Posted by samzenpus on from the protect-ya-neck dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A member of the Anonymous hacktivist group appears to have taken down GoDaddy with a massive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS). The widespread issue seems to be affecting countless websites and services around the world, although not for everyone. Godaddy.com is down, but so are some of the site's DNS servers, which means GoDaddy hosted e-mail accounts are down as well, and lots more. It's currently unclear if the servers are being unresponsive or if they are completely offline. Either way, the result is that if your DNS is hosted on GoDaddy, your site may also look as if it is down, because it cannot resolve."

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  1. Verisign FTW? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

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    1 point by druiid 10 minutes ago | link | edit | delete

    I'm assuming they're adding the Verisign DDoS protection service, but this change should make EVERY single Godaddy client very, very, very nervous (from the current whois):

          Domain Name: GODADDY.COM
          Registrar: GODADDY.COM, LLC
          Whois Server: whois.godaddy.com
          Referral URL: http://registrar.godaddy.com
          Name Server: A1.VERISIGNDNS.COM
          Name Server: A2.VERISIGNDNS.COM
          Name Server: A3.VERISIGNDNS.COM
          Status: clientDeleteProhibited
          Status: clientRenewProhibited
          Status: clientTransferProhibited
          Status: clientUpdateProhibited
          Updated Date: 10-sep-2012
          Creation Date: 02-mar-1999
          Expiration Date: 01-nov-2021

    Yes, you read that right... they just implemented verisign name-servers. A multi-multi million (billion?) dollar company.

    And in case anyone doesn't believe this:

    > server a1.verisigndns.com
    Default server: a1.verisigndns.com
    Address: 209.112.113.33#53
    Default server: a1.verisigndns.com
    Address: 2001:500:7967::2:33#53
    > www.godaddy.com
    Server: a1.verisigndns.com
    Address: 209.112.113.33#53

    Name: www.godaddy.com
    Address: 184.168.227.107

  2. AnonymousOwn3r - cavity search at 11 by CrudPuppy · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    All I've got to say it, I hope this fucker gets some royal treatment by our Government. Maybe this is one of those perfect times to throw the Patriot Act at some douchebag.

    Under normal circumstances, my tone is completely opposite, but that's when groups deface, humiliate, take-down, etc sites that are well deserving of public shame (yeah we all know who they are, I won't even list).

    But this pricks (or more likely these pricks) are screwing with the masses, making our day(s) hell, and taking dollars out of our pockets. If you have beef with GoDaddy, but all means, hack their shit, post pics of their execs fucking dogs, whatever. Don't fuck with every random person in the nation/world that needs to keep a website up.

    And yes, there's something to be said for showing a gaping security hole, especially if nobody listened in private forum, but wtf it's been 7 hours.

    So, AnonymousOwn3r, be glad I don't know you. I would personally drop your ass off at the front gates of Gitmo.

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