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[rSpooky]

http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/10/godaddy-outage-takes-down-millions-of-sites/

According to many customers, sites hosted by major web host and domain registrar GoDaddy are down. According to the official GoDaddy Twitter account the company is aware of the issue and is working to resolve it. Update: customers are complaining that GoDaddy hosted e-mail accounts are down as well.

Update 2: Anonymous is claiming responsibility. A member of Anonymous known as is claiming responsibility, and makes it clear this is not an Anonymous collective action.

Looks like he was bragging straight up,too TechCrunch as well ..
Edit: Not sure if it was for "lulz"

Spoiler

(ugh..*eyeroll*)

or some other motive.

Edit2: For those with affected sites: Seems to be effecting only DNS, you can try to navigate to your website by ip address if you know it.

 

[NotTheGuyYouKill]

Good for him. I guess.

 

[shuri]

Thx for disrupting random small business! Free Kevin!

 

[Dennis]

What is issue with Godaddy?

About from the atrocious name.

 

[gutshot]

When I had my site on GoDaddy a couple years back, it was always slow, sometimes completely down and was constantly getting hacked and injected with malware. I don't think this is anything new.

 

[gregor7777]

Their DNS servers are affected. I have several sites hosted elsewhere which are up and reachable by IP, however unreachable by domain name due to using GoDaddy DNS.

 

[Fleet_of_Foot]

Yeah, great. My small business's website is down, and I'm not able to access my e-mail either.

Awesome.

 

[Baha]

What is issue with Godaddy?

About from the atrocious name.

I think they supported SOPA at one point.

 

[rSpooky]

Their DNS servers are affected. I have several sites hosted elsewhere which are up and reachable by IP, however unreachable by domain name due to using GoDaddy DNS.

This is what we experienced here at work as well for one of our users. IP did work as well for us.

 

[Zerokku]

Edit: Not sure if it was for "lulz"

Spoiler

(ugh..*eyeroll*)

or some other motive.

I could see it being holdover rage from Godaddy's support of SOPA, but my understanding was the guy(s?) who was in charge of the whole Godaddy/SOPA thing isn't even at the company anymore.

 

[hiryu]

Awesome, all of my work websites and email is down because we registered our domains there years ago.

 

[Zoe]

Does GAF still use Godaddy? Things were going slow for me for a while.

 

[-COOLIO-]

lol im at work and our network is down

 

[The Faceless Master]

i moved my domains away from godaddy long before SOPA. mainly because godaddy sucks.

 

[gregor7777]

So frustrating

 

[Darklord]

What is issue with Godaddy?

About from the atrocious name.

They supported SOPA and the CEO is an egotistical douche.

 

[Az987]

Is this why cheapassgamer isn't coming up>

 

[Omegasquash]

They supported SOPA and the CEO is an egotistical douche.

Additionally, their marketing campaign was (is?) pandering to 15 year old boys that got wood every time they saw a female.

 

[Dennis]

Is this why cheapassgamer isn't coming up>

He went with Godaddy and now his cheapass is paying the price.

 

[gregor7777]

I get most of my domains from Softlayer, but for quick things, what does everyone recommend?

Namecheap? I see they have free DNS.

 

[AlphaSnake]

Well...this is bad

 

[B Killenger]

Thx for disrupting random small business! Free Kevin!

yup, thanks for nothing, I do not get this haxxing the planet crap at all. GoDaddy still gets paid.

 

[The Real Abed]

Guess this explains why Teefury went down last night as I was trying to purchase their Dalek Barista T-shirt. That is if they use GoDaddy. Apparently so does Brad Jones, and he's pissed.

I just wish it meant I would never have to see another stupid Danika Patrick Superbowl commercial again.

 

[notworksafe]

Yeah the site for the local FGC went down a bit ago because of this. Seems to be back up now though...

 

[Nevasleep]

Gone Daddy Gone.

 

[MRORANGE]

So glad I moved my website away from godaddy, checked my friends site and yep it's down.

 

[RiggenBlaque]

Anonymous claims another victory against tyranny!

..by being a minor inconvenience to people on the internet for a few hours.

I love how they attack GoDaddy for their support of SOPA, which helps to just further convince the powers that be that SOPA is needed

 

[GavinGT]

This explains redlettermedia.com being down.

 

[StriKeVillain]

Was wondering why my local sports talk radio site was down. Guess I'll have to listen to music while I work. The horror.

 

[Darth Pinche]

Yup, my work email is down so, not doing much today! Is this a problem?

 

[RiggenBlaque]

This explains redlettermedia.com being down.

When are they going to upload a new episode of Half in the Bag, already?

 

[The Real Abed]

This explains redlettermedia.com being down.

Oh, that settles it! NOW THEY'VE GONE TOO FAR!

 

[Nevasleep]

nerddad: Knock knock. Who's there? Any website hosted on Godaddy. Any website hosted on Godaddy, who? <DNS lookup failed.>.


Did Neogaf used to be on GoDaddy?

 

[GavinGT]

When are they going to upload a new episode of Half in the Bag, already?

Season 2 ended a few weeks ago, so I guess they're on break for a little while.

 

[Mesoian]

Ah, this actually explains why all client meetings were pushed back today. Our public stuff is hosted on Godaddy.

 

[sephi22]

Coursera is down because of this.
I had to submit the Machine Learning homework.
Tonight's the deadline.

FUCK

 

[gregor7777]

Are hosted sites still down? DNS has been working for a few hours now, at least.

 

[Nevasleep]

Are hosted sites still down? DNS has been working for a few hours now, at least.

Doesn't it have to propagate through the other DNS servers then?

Coursera is down for me in the UK.

 

[Cyrillus]

This caused me a two-hour headache with a customer bitching at me (their ISP) because their email and POS software weren't working. The best part was I ended up calling the vendor for the POS POS software, and their support tech claimed there was "nothing wrong". An hour later I find out Godaddy is down, and that the POS software company was using Godaddy (and also having their customers use domains to access their service instead of IPs).

Needless to say it's been a fun afternoon.

 

[SCULLIBUNDO]

 

[gregor7777]

Doesn't it have to propagate through the other DNS servers then?

Coursera is down for me in the UK.

Typically. One site I have that uses GoDaddy DNS but is hosted elsewhere was back up around 4PM EST

 

[Mudkips]

What is issue with Godaddy?

About from the atrocious name.

Terrible business practices and advertising.
GoDaddy basically looks for any excuse possible to transfer your domain away from you.

 

[gregor7777]

GoDaddy basically looks for any excuse possible to transfer your domain away from you.

What does that mean, specifically? How do they do that?

 

[D4Danger]

nerddad: Knock knock. Who's there? Any website hosted on Godaddy. Any website hosted on Godaddy, who? <DNS lookup failed.>.


Did Neogaf used to be on GoDaddy?

still is, apparently. (just the domain, not the site)

 

[Rebel Leader]

Does GAF still use Godaddy? Things were going slow for me for a while.

Yes GAF is still on godaddy (domain apparently)

 

[ReturnOfTheRAT]

Annonymous are assholes.

 

[AlphaSnake]

I had to do 8 hours of work in 2 hours as soon as I got home.

That wasn't fun.

 

[SirButterstick]

Annonymous are assholes.

This. I wasn't initially for-or-against Anonymous, but as a owner of a small design shop who needs to upload files on a daily basis, they fucked me today. Fuck them.