GoDaddy Goes Down, Anonymous Claims Responsibility

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."

Comments

This is big

[Terry Pearson]

I was just noticing the large number of sites that are down. I hope it gets resolved soon!

Re:This is big

[houstonbofh]

There has also been a huge reduction is spam and crap e-mail on technical mailing lists. So I am kinda mixed on how soon I want them to fix it.

Re:It was NOT Anonymous.

[kaizendojo]

So an Anonymous Coward comments that this was NOT Anonymous, but Anonymous member AnonymousOwn3r??!?

Should I beleive *ANY* of this or what???

Re:You think this is a Game?

[MachDelta]

You're the roofer on the Death Star.

B-but... it's a sphere? How? Where... does the roof? I... i'm so confused.... Shouldn't he also be the, uh, waller... and flooring guy...? My childhood... crumbling... Nnooooooooooooo!

Oh well, at least I still have Clerks...

Re:Glad I moved my domains

[girlintraining]

All seriousness aside: By looking at the scantily clad women they advertise with, is it any surprise they go down?

I think those scantily clad women are very disappointed it can't stay up as well.