GoDaddy Goes Down, Anonymous Claims Responsibility 483
An anonymous reader writes "A member of the Anonymous hacktivist group appears to have taken down GoDaddy with a massive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS). The widespread issue seems to be affecting countless websites and services around the world, although not for everyone. Godaddy.com is down, but so are some of the site's DNS servers, which means GoDaddy hosted e-mail accounts are down as well, and lots more. It's currently unclear if the servers are being unresponsive or if they are completely offline. Either way, the result is that if your DNS is hosted on GoDaddy, your site may also look as if it is down, because it cannot resolve."
Glad I moved my domains (Score:5, Insightful)
Back when GoDaddy was publicly in support of SOPA, I moved away from them. Ended up saving a lot as well.
No regrets.
"Activism" (Score:3, Insightful)
Hmm, attacking innocent people at random, could have sworn there was some other word for that...
Re:This is big (Score:4, Insightful)
I hope they lose a lot of business from it. GoDaddy is an aweful company.
Bob Parsons quote (Score:2, Insightful)
Bob Parsons, who created GoDaddy, once said "Security is for cadavers" when giving business advice to the general public.
Re:Hrmph (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:You think this is a Game? (Score:4, Insightful)
Hate to blame the victim but why on earth are you using godaddy who supports anyone having the ability to take your website down?
Re:"Activism" (Score:1, Insightful)
Not like Go Daddy is a "good" company.... (Score:5, Insightful)
Don't use the godaddy DNS and you'll be fine (Score:5, Insightful)
If you have registered your domain with Godaddy, and used a third party DNS, everything will be fine. I've found it's better to use a 3rd party DNS as it allows more flexibility in managing the domain name.
Re:You think this is a Game? (Score:4, Insightful)
His point is that GoDaddy supported SOPA, which allowed companies to shut down websites on a whim.
If you continued to support GoDaddy after learning about this, then it is assumed you're fine with people's websites being shutdown for no good reason.
Therefore, why are you upset now?
You're the roofer on the Death Star. You knew the risks.
Re:You think this is a Game? (Score:4, Insightful)
You could host your own dns, like a big boy.
This is what happens when you push everything out into the cloud. Somedays it rains and there ain't shit you can do about it.
Re:Glad I moved my domains (Score:4, Insightful)
Good for you, helping to help fund the man, giving them money so they can improve their service with wonderful investments in female nascar drivers that suck at nascar, aren't really that good looking and stick them in ads that are blatantly "sex sells" to appeal to you, the lowest common denominator.
You fight that good fight sir.
Re:You think this is a Game? (Score:0, Insightful)
That might have mattered back when SOPA was still a thing people cared about. That was months ago. Your blame the victim mentality is appalling and ignorant.
Re:You think this is a Game? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Glad I moved my domains (Score:2, Insightful)
You're an idiot.
Re:You think this is a Game? (Score:5, Insightful)
I highly doubt that they didn't know the details of the bill. The bill was available via Thomas and it's broad strokes were known for quite some time.
GoDaddy wanted to placate the MPAA/RIAA/etc because it was a business decision. Once they realized that they had a massive exodus of customers, they made the business decision to reverse their stance.
Their decision had little to do with knowing the bill. Their decision was made because it was the fiscally responsible thing to do. They probably didn't predict that the fallout would be as drastic as it was.
Re:You think this is a Game? (Score:5, Insightful)
So since people stopped caring about SOPA it's not a big deal now? It's getting pushed through piecemeal. I'm gonna laugh when your precious website can't be reliably hosted anywhere in the USA.
Lesson is: Don't do important business with losers.
Re:You think this is a Game? (Score:5, Insightful)
So, you thought giving your domain name to a bunch of clowns that support laws that they don't understand was a good plan?
Doesn't seem to be working out good.
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For all the dudes who're crying about (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:You think this is a Game? (Score:5, Insightful)
That might have mattered back when SOPA was still a thing people cared about.
This right there is why this stuff is so insidious. We have to be vigilant.
Re:You think this is a Game? (Score:5, Insightful)
I was giving good business advice actually, most of the time when I lose money it's because I wasn't selective who I trusted. So it's my fault for losing money because I trusted a moron with business.
Also good job with the rape out of the blue.. why don't you throw in some nazis and compare me to bush while you're at it. You're like the idiot who shops at wal-mart... except with best buy prices and customer service.
Re:You think this is a Game? (Score:5, Insightful)
A lot of companies (and unions) supported SOPA: http://www.scribd.com/doc/76259944/SOPA-Supporters [scribd.com]
Therefore, why are you upset now?
Do you use a MasterCard or VISA? Do you watch ABC, follow pro football or basketball, buy books published by Random House, HarperCollins or McGraw-Hill, are a paying member of any of a dozen unions, buy any products made by Revlon, Pfizer, LOreal, Sony and a hundred other companies?
According to your logic, if any of the above is true, you should not be upset if a group of random hackers shuts down your website and causes you financial harm.
Re:You think this is a Game? (Score:4, Insightful)
If you take your project seriously and believe your website is an important part of it, you simply must acquire the skill to make good decisions regarding it's implementation or hire an expert who can do this for you. You cannot stick your head in the sand and cry "I'm too busy, too important!" and expect any sympathy from me. Do you use that approach as an excuse for every area in which you fail to bring in proper expertise?
GoDaddy has a long track record of poor service and questionable practices the predates any SOPA business by many years. They offer nothing unique and have dozens of more reputable competitors. There is only one reason anyone uses GoDaddy: low cost.
This is your responsibility. Certainly you didn't end up using GoDaddy's services purely by random chance. A decision was made by someone, and it was made poorly. Probably someone trying to save a few bucks. It's highly unlikely that this will be the only ramification of that bad decision. It's also somewhat likely that other, similarly poor choices have been made in how your technical infrastructure is designed.
Re:You think this is a Game? (Score:5, Insightful)
More to the point though, Goddaddy is simply a less efficient company compared to many, and the world would be better off without them (no offense intended, since it'd be great to free up their time for more productive tasks, or simply free time for its own sake).
Re:Bob Parsons quote (Score:5, Insightful)
+5 Insightful.
For a quote taken out of context that means nothing even close to the implication.
full quote is
I believe that not much happens of any significance when we're in our comfort zone. I hear people say, "But I'm concerned about security." My response to that is simple: "Security is for cadavers.
He is talking about your own personal comfort zone.
Of course you either already knew that or were you just ignorantly posting stuff you heard but never understood?
Of course I still do not like GoDaddy.
I just dislike liars even more.
Re:This is big (Score:3, Insightful)
If you sleep with a whore, you can not complain if you get syphilis.
Re:This is big (Score:3, Insightful)
they may be aweful, but the hosted email has been damn decent for the 4+ years I've been with them. I've always sort of snickered at the shit anonymous did, but now their vendetta against a big company fucks us little guys too.
Please don't misconstrue this as support for Anonymous' actions. You seem to forget that SOPA [gizmodo.com] would fuck the little guys, too. Perhaps you've forgotten who supported [arstechnica.com] that legislation, and why Wikipedia [zdnet.com] and many others [venturebeat.com] (including myself, a customer for over 10 years) have left GoDaddy.