Anonymous takes down GoDaddy - Millions of sites down

rexbobcat · Sep 10, 2012

I do like that they took down Westboro Baptist Church for a little while.

(I host with Wix and iPage so I'm good, mwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha)

2WheelPhoto · Sep 10, 2012

Don't knock those folks, they keep Holga and Instagram in bizness

macpro88 · Sep 10, 2012

One of our biggest clients (im an IT Manager, not pro photog; clearly lol) uses GoDaddy. They, are NOT happy campers right now.

I've never liked GoDaddy in the first place, we are actually working on getting that client off GoDaddy (Anon couldn't have waited another week?) because their service sucks.

zombiemann · Sep 10, 2012

Somebody else said it earlier but it bears repeating, this was not a "sanctioned" take down by Anonymous. The problem with Anonymous is ANYBODY can claim to be part of Anonymous.

@Charlie: I do NOT in any way support or condone piracy, but I was as firmly against SOPA as a person can be. The draconian nature of the bill without any checks and balances alone made it worth opposing. Under SOPA I could file a DMCA notice against THIS site, regadless of it's EULA/site rules/stuff you had to agree to to join, and have it taken down without so much as a review.

cgipson1 · Sep 10, 2012

macpro88 said:
One of our biggest clients (im an IT Manager, not pro photog; clearly lol) uses GoDaddy. They, are NOT happy campers right now.

I've never liked GoDaddy in the first place, we are actually working on getting that client off GoDaddy (Anon couldn't have waited another week?) because their service sucks.

yea.. my boss registered a couple of domains with GoDaddy without consulting me first.... when we were fighting with the previous outsourced IT, trying to get control of the company's original domain name. So things are a little screwy! lol! I am going to have to setup some aliases....

Dao · Sep 10, 2012

I have few domains registered via Godaddy, but I am not using their DNS servers so I am not affected.

cgipson1 · Sep 10, 2012

Dao said:
I have few domains registered via Godaddy, but I am not using their DNS servers so I am not affected.

Really? That's funny.. Because I don't use their DNS servers either... and yet I could not reach them earlier, period! Not by IP address... not by domain name.

SamSpade1941 · Sep 10, 2012

Meh .... I cant say it affected me in the slightest. But I don't use Go Daddy when I did have a web page I used Mac Highway , outstanding company BTW if you need web hosting services.

unpopular · Sep 10, 2012

We'd all like to believe that our civil liberty is won on nice speeches by charismatic men. In reality our civil rights must be fought for.

The powerful don't hand over power without consequences.

macpro88 · Sep 10, 2012

not everyone was affected though, a little more than half of my users email, we use GoDaddy for hosted exchange, were without email a select few had it all day and still do. We could not however, log into our admin panel on GoDaddy's site...

I don't think EVERYONE was affected, and changing the routing and IP address, done fairly quickly, sometimes, can remedy the damage, and I'm pretty sure it was only a DDoS attack anyways.

Kazooie · Sep 11, 2012

I give my props to the person(s) who did this, to an extent. It clearly got some news for Anon, which I adore, but they could have done it a bit different.

Actually, it was a great way of showing power, and I love that they did it. Granted, I'm also an advocate for privacy on the internet. That's why I (when I feel like it) run my internet connection through a proxy in France or Africa.

Dao · Sep 11, 2012

cgipson1 said:
Dao said:

I have few domains registered via Godaddy, but I am not using their DNS servers so I am not affected.

Click to expand...

Really? That's funny.. Because I don't use their DNS servers either... and yet I could not reach them earlier, period! Not by IP address... not by domain name.

I could be wrong, but here is what happened. When a domain name is registered through registrar, a pair (or more) of DNS servers are associated with it. And that information is stored in the master database servers or the root servers placed around the world which are not owned by GoDaddy.

During the outage, I was not able to lookup godaddy.com, secureserver.net nor domaincontrol.com. But I was able to do so with my domains.

Now, GoDaddy said they were not under attacked yesterday.

Quoted from CNN.com
"It was not a 'hack' and it was not a denial of service attack (DDoS)," Scott Wagner, GoDaddy's interim CEO, said in an e-mailed statement. "We have determined the service outage was due to a series of internal network events that corrupted router data tables."

cgipson1 · Sep 11, 2012

Kazooie said:
I give my props to the person(s) who did this, to an extent. It clearly got some news for Anon, which I adore, but they could have done it a bit different.

Actually, it was a great way of showing power, and I love that they did it. Granted, I'm also an advocate for privacy on the internet. That's why I (when I feel like it) run my internet connection through a proxy in France or Africa.

So you advocate disrupting millions of websites, causing people to lost money and time... just because you think it is Cool or something? What, are you twelve years old, with no sense of social responsibility?

cgipson1 · Sep 11, 2012

Dao said:
cgipson1 said:

Dao said:

I have few domains registered via Godaddy, but I am not using their DNS servers so I am not affected.

Click to expand...

Really? That's funny.. Because I don't use their DNS servers either... and yet I could not reach them earlier, period! Not by IP address... not by domain name.

Click to expand...

I could be wrong, but here is what happened. When a domain name is registered through registrar, a pair (or more) of DNS servers are associated with it. And that information is stored in the master database servers or the root servers placed around the world which are not owned by GoDaddy.

During the outage, I was not able to lookup godaddy.com, secureserver.net nor domaincontrol.com. But I was able to do so with my domains.

Now, GoDaddy said they were not under attacked yesterday.

Quoted from CNN.com
"It was not a 'hack' and it was not a denial of service attack (DDoS)," Scott Wagner, GoDaddy's interim CEO, said in an e-mailed statement. "We have determined the service outage was due to a series of internal network events that corrupted router data tables."