GoDaddy outage makes websites unavailable for many Internet users (Updated)

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/09/godaddy-outage-makes-websites-unavailable-for-many-internet-users/

By Dan Goodin
Ars Technica
Sept 10 2012

GoDaddy, one of the Internet's biggest webhosting providers, experienced 
technical difficulties on Monday that prevented many people from 
visiting sites that relied on the service for connectivity.

A little after 5 p.m. California time on Monday, company officials took 
to Twitter to say the outage was mostly resolved.

"Most customer hosted sites back online," the dispatch stated. "We're 
working out the last few kinks for our site & control centers. No 
customer data compromised."

Searches using the dig utility also indicated domain name system servers 
operated by GoDaddy competitor VeriSign were being used to resolve the 
godaddy.com domain name. Wired reported VeriSign was hosting GoDaddy's 
DNS servers, too, although Ars couldn't independently verify that. One 
reason GoDaddy might turn to VeriSign is to avail itself of functional 
domain-name-resolution services. VeriSign operates a denial-of-service 
mitigation service called iDefense, so another possibility is that 
GoDaddy is under attack and is turning to VeriSign for help blocking it.

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