Internet Marketing and Web Design News - Florida & Beyond
Wednesday, November 30, 2005
4:43 PM
GoDaddy.com website down
According to CNET news today, GoDaddy, one of the largest domain name registration services, was down. Here are the details:
"GoDaddy.com was hit with a denial-of-service attack Wednesday morning, prompting 600,000 of its customers' hosted Web sites to go dark for roughly an hour. GoDaddy, which also is a domain registrar and reseller, said e-mail service was also disrupted for some of its 4 million customers.
The DOS attack hit at 5:49 a.m. and lasted approximately 65 minutes, said Bob Parsons, GoDaddy's chief executive. GoDaddy is hit with DOS attempts every day, but the attack on Wednesday was three times larger than previous attempts, Parsons said."
It goes to show that even the biggest of companies can go down at anytime. So, anyone who states they are up 100% is just asking for a lawsuit. However, it's good to know that Bob Parsons isn't afraid to answer the public on this.
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