GoDaddy goes down, Anonymous takes credit - brownsown1945
Favorite domain name registrar and Web and email hosting provider GoDaddy is experiencing a severe outage, one that appears to feature embezzled out not only its hosted services, but even those websites that have registered their domain names through GoDaddy.
In a YouTube video, secretive hacking group Anonymous has taken credit for the outage, claiming the propel is a chemical reaction to the ship's company's support of the U.S. government's efforts "to censor and contain the Cyberspace," direct its support of the Barricade Online Privacy Enactment (SOPA).
GoDaddy has issued a short statement on Twitter, but has not yet given a reason for the outage.
"Status Wide-awake: Hey, all. We're aware of the trouble people are having with our site. We'Re working on it," the alert stated.
Background
Users started noticing the troubles in the late morning Mid-Atlantic Time. Customers with GoDaddy-hosted email accounts and websites noticed the outage, as did at to the lowest degree some users WHO had certified their world names with GoDaddy, even though their sites are actually hosted elsewhere. When pinged, websites registered with GoDaddy receive only a "Ping request could not find host," message. The GoDaddy.com site itself went offline.
The reaction across the Internet has been contiguous and caustic. "Hi @godaddy. Similar everybody else hosted aside you, our website is down. Please fix now thanksabunch bye," a Chitter message from CouponPuppet.com read.
GoDaddy claims to be the worldly concern's largest domain name registrar. The company reportedly manages more than 48 one thousand thousand domain names and serves more than 9.3 million customers.
Joab Jackson covers go-ahead software and general technology breaking news for The IDG News Service. Follow Joab happening Chitter at @Joab_Jackson. Joab's netmail address is Joab_Jackson@idg.com
Source: https://www.pcworld.com/article/461195/godaddy_goes_down_anonymous_takes_credit-2.html
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