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GoDaddy Says Hit By DDOS Attack, not DST

GoDaddy’s disappearance from the internet yesterday was caused, it says, by a “large-scale, sophisticated attack” lasting several hours, not by the unusual early switch to daylight-savings time. The latter would have been a humiliating disaster, as GoDaddy rebuffed warnings of DST-related problem and said it was “exempt” from the concerns. Here’s what they sent to […]

GoDaddy's disappearance from the internet yesterday was caused, it says, by a "large-scale, sophisticated attack" lasting several hours, not by the unusual early switch to daylight-savings time.

The latter would have been a humiliating disaster, as GoDaddy rebuffed warnings of DST-related problem and said it was "exempt" from the concerns. Here's what they sent to customers last night:

This morning, March 11, some of our Go Daddy services came under significant and sustained distributed denial of service attacks resulting in intermittent disruptions of various services, including shared hosting and email.

Our Internet Security and Network teams immediately invoked counter-measures to respond to these large scale, sophisticated attacks.

After 4-5 hours of intermittent disruptions of various services this morning, including shared hosting and email, the attack was contained.

OFFICIAL GoDaddy.com response [Slashdot]