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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."
Anonymous member AnonymousOwn3r has stated that this was not an Anonymous operation, and that he did this by himself.
The goal wasn't to instill fear or terror.
So you are wrong and stupid. You should feel bad about that.
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Considering their website stayed up during the whole attack, your joke fails. http://support.godaddy.com/godaddy/statement-about-sopa/
I moved from GoDaddy to Namecheap this summer, SOPA was the last straw for me. GoDaddy made it an unpleasant process. Good riddance.
I don't condone the Anonymous action though. There are lots of good people who use GoDaddy.
GoDaddy really are bottom feeders though. Anyone using them should go home and re-think their lives.
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They supported legislation which was purported to be good for business. In the end once they knew the details of the bill, they pulled their support.
Let's assume that what you say is true. That means they supported legislation that they did not understand which means they are stupid. Now lets assume they knew full well what was in the bill. That means they are, for lack of a better term, evil. So either they are stupid or they are evil or possibly both. Given the fact that GoDaddy is quite large enough to hire expensive lawyers and lobbyists capable of explaining the bill to them, I rather doubt that they did not know (or at least should have known) the contents of the bill prior to supporting or opposing it publicly. Given my experiences with GoDaddy I tend to favor that they are both stupid and evil but that's just my opinion. Lot's of things are purported to be "good for business". This doesn't make them all good ideas.
Its his only quote on wikiquote among other places: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bob_Parsons
You mean the advertising company that makes its profits by hijacking DNS requests?? The company that breaks things like MX lookups by default? The company that takes advantage of dimwits who thing anything with the word "Open" in the name is actually somehow open? That OpenDNS?
-Lod
If i recall GoDaddy had a hand in writing the bill as well. they finally changed their stance after there was an exodus from their service over SOPA. and even then it seemed they only changed their stance because of their bottom dollar, and ultimately they still believed in it.
I pulled all my domains from GoDaddy a long time ago because of their SOPA support.
It seems anonymous is rather late to the party for this. all the SOPA stuff was many months ago.
Once they realized that they had a massive exodus of customers, they made the business decision to reverse their stance.
GoDaddy never reversed their stance on SOPA! They basically said that they will not be so upfront with their support of the bill.
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