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

It was NOT Anonymous.

[Anonymous Coward]

Anonymous member AnonymousOwn3r has stated that this was not an Anonymous operation, and that he did this by himself.

Re:It was NOT Anonymous.

[adameros]

I was the one to my the "Anonymous Coward" comment because I was too lazy to login, but I'm not too lazy to back my post up with facts, especially when a dumbass would rather mock the poster than actually address what was said. Here is the Tech Crunch article where they admit their mistake and stop blaming Anonymous: http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/10/godaddy-outage-takes-down-millions-of-sites/ Here is where the person taking credit says it was not Anonymous, but a solo act: https://twitter.com/AnonymousOwn3r/status/245227793334546432 Anything relevant you would like to add, kaizendojo? Or just more worthless snark?

Re:Glad I moved my domains

[tibit]

I moved to namecheap for domains and hosting, and not only is it cheaper, but the overall experience doesn't leave sour aftertaste. They have been excellent so far.

Re:Who instead of Go Daddy?

[heypete]

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Their VPSs are pretty standard paravirtualized Xen systems which work out pretty well (I ran a Team Fortress 2 gameserver for a while on one and it was stable and reliable).

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Disclaimer: Gandi customer, not employed by them in any way.

WOOT!

[Anonymous Coward]

Danica Patrick, fossilized and covered in Farina!

Re:You think this is a Game?

[Bryansix]

Considering their website stayed up during the whole attack, your joke fails. http://support.godaddy.com/godaddy/statement-about-sopa/

Re:Bob Parsons quote

[suso]

Its his only quote on wikiquote among other places: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bob_Parsons

Re:Who instead of Go Daddy?

[LodCrappo]

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?

Re:You think this is a Game?

[leonardluen]

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.

Re:You think this is a Game?

[blind biker]

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.