Anonymous Member Kicks GoDaddy Offline
GoDaddy is still recovering from an outage that affected millions of websites.
One member of Anonymous is taking responsibility for knocking major web host and domain registrar GoDaddy offline on Monday, causing a wave of associated sites to go down for the count as well.
GoDaddy, which hosts more than 5 million sites, was believed to be attacked for publicly supporting the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) earlier this year. "By using/supporting GoDaddy, you are supporting censorship of the Internet," wrote AnonOpsLegion via Twitter on Monday.
In addition to websites going offline, GoDaddy customers also began complaining that hosted e-mail accounts were inaccessible along with the company's phone service. GoDaddy is reportedly working on resolving the issue, but insiders claim the company is offloading DNS services over to competitor Verisign so that customers don't remain offline.
So far Verisign has not issued a statement, but GoDaddy eventually confirmed the outage without acknowledging a possible Anonymous-based DDoS attack.
"At around 10:25 am PT, GoDaddy.com and associated customer services experienced intermittent outages," the company stated. "Services began to be restored for the bulk of affected customers at 2:43 pm PT. At no time was any sensitive customer information, such as credit card data, passwords or names and addresses, compromised."
Over on Twitter, Anonymous Own3r – the individual claiming to be responsible for the attack -- said that GoDaddy was knocked offline because "I'd like to test how the cyber security is safe for more reasons than I can not talk now." The Anonymous member also announced that he/she was working solo, and that the attack was not directed by the actual Anonymous collective. Still, the DDoS efforts didn't go unnoticed, with a "good job brother, glad to see you back" message dispatched from the AnonOpsLegion Twitter account.
As of 8pm EST, the sites associated with GoDaddy were coming back online. The company had not yet confirmed how many of its sites were affected by the outage, nor did it confirm the source of Monday's problem. Meanwhile, one high-profile website has decided to pack its bags and head to a competing web host thanks to Monday's outage.
"This was a poorly thought out decision, made by me, at the very beginning of the company," said Dustin Moskovitz, co-founder of Asana, when asked why he signed on with GoDaddy. "It is unfortunately somewhat high friction to change, but we’ve already had it on our task list to migrate. This morning’s outage (following one of our own—nobody’s perfect!) will certainly hasten that departure."
Given that this is an ongoing report, we expect to hear more for GoDaddy soon, so stay tuned.
But GoDaddy stole it! Then GoDaddy says "While Go Daddy does not own these domains names, we are one of a select group of registrars that can introduce you to the sellers."
Here is their sub-company:
DomainsByProxy.com
14747 N Northsight Blvd Suite 111, PMB 309
Scottsdale, Arizona 85260
Domains by proxy *IS OWNED* by GoDaddy. They are lying sacks of shit.
DO NOT EVER EVER DO BUSINESS WITH GODADDY!
They maybe the very worst company to do business with!
This has always been the problem. I'm not trying to get on your case, but people always start off saying it's good or alright because they're doing this against people I don't like, or this isn't affecting me so who cares. As far as I see it they haven't really changed what they were always doing. It's just that more and more people are realizing that these buffoons are out for no one but themselves.
http://www.isitdownrightnow.com/tomshardware.com.html
while releasing FBI iphone database they didn't released the very confidential information such as phone number of any person. They are revealing governments true face which is trying to sneak into your private life
This has always been the problem. I'm not trying to get on your case, but people always start off saying it's good or alright because they're doing this against people I don't like, or this isn't affecting me so who cares. As far as I see it they haven't really changed what they were always doing. It's just that more and more people are realizing that these buffoons are out for no one but themselves.
But GoDaddy stole it! Then GoDaddy says "While Go Daddy does not own these domains names, we are one of a select group of registrars that can introduce you to the sellers."
Here is their sub-company:
DomainsByProxy.com
14747 N Northsight Blvd Suite 111, PMB 309
Scottsdale, Arizona 85260
Domains by proxy *IS OWNED* by GoDaddy. They are lying sacks of shit.
DO NOT EVER EVER DO BUSINESS WITH GODADDY!
They maybe the very worst company to do business with!
Even if you are logged in, you type it in... think about it, come back to it 15~30 minutes later... gone, GoDaddy has just raped you.
While I can see your point, I don't really agree as far as I myself am concerned. The "people I don't like" are the corporations doing underhanded nonsense, and / or using their big lawyered up asses to shove things down people's throats. Now, I can get behind them showing the fight-club-esque nod of "we protect you while you sleep, do not f*** with us" mentality. Sorry if my comment didn't drive the point home properly, but What I'm truly against is the civilian casualty involved with some of their recent actions, as opposed to what it appeared they stood for prior. You may be right, they may not give two s***s about anyone but themselves. Color me disillusioned for believing the statement "A people should not fear it's government, a government should fear it's people" was actually being practiced.
There is no such thing as an organized group called Anonymous. It started out as a bunch of kids on 4chan who would raid f2p games, chat rooms and stickam. Then one of them made a program called LOIC that joins your computer into a botnet. Everyone downloads it and then the botnet gets directed towards a certain business to DDOS. It is not full of computer hackers and devious crackers. It is a bunch of kids who just claim the title and willingly or unwillingly put their PC on a botnet to DDOS "For the Greater Good".
1&1.com does the same thing !
I lost several domains because of them.
You're correct, I just was trying to tell Taizun they're still a loosely associated group of people, not just a single user who uses a username called anon/anonymous as he made it sound.
Fuck godaddy.
Collateral Damage my friend. By supporting SOPA, anyone that does business with GoDaddy, is supporting it. It's not a shade of grey. That's why I took action and closed my accounts. Do you want to censor the internet?
Your very scary attitude forments a world literally of anarchy. You don't like somebody just destroy anyone who has any contact with them. That is the same argument al-Qaeda made on this very day (9/11) after killing thousands of people. You should perhaps think about stopping ideas you vehemently disagree with at the VOTING BOOTH and as you did with your wallet. Cheering collateral damage vs. unwitting people is just wrong plain and simple.
Then... Anonymous censors GoDaddy via DDOS because they disagree with GoDaddy.
So, why claim to protect freedom by denying others' freedom?