According to DailyChanges.com there are almost 34 million domain names are hosted on Godaddy’s DomainControl.com servers which appear to be down.
In addition another 1.2 million are hosted on Godaddy’s CashParking.com servers which also appear to be down.
I did a spot check of domains and sites located on both servers and all appeared to be down.
As Godaddy.com outage continues it looks like between domain, site hosting and email hosting up to 35 million domains could be affected.
Godaddy.com is the largest domain registrar in the world.
Reports of the outage started around 2Pm EST and continue to pour in on Twitter and is being reported by major publications and news services.
Members of Anonymous have taken credit for Go Daddy attack according to the New York Times.
Godaddy in its latest tweet said:
“”Update: Still working on it, but we’re making progress. Some service has already been restored. Stick with us.””
And most recently wrote “We’re continuing our work to get back on track. This is our #1 priority. We’ll keep posting updates here. Thanks for all the support.”
Many domain industry blogs are down including Elliotsblog.com, DomainNameWire.com and DomainIncite.com.
Also Escrow.com which handles hundreds of millions in domain transactions is down as it is using DomainControl.com servers.
Anonymous knocked out Escrow.com also ?
Escrow appears to be working as I tried it. Wonder if some of these companies have backup plans for events like this. Wonder how much financial damage something like this causes…has to be huge.
Escrow.com is not resolving for me
Lately, it seems like there have been a number of high profile outages. Whether it is the numerous outages at Amazon AWS, Google Apps, or this recent GoDaddy outage – one trend is that these are all very large infrastructures. With size comes attention. And with that attention, one must be vigilant.
Here is another interesting blog on this outage:
http://www.dincloud.com/blog/Cloud-Security-and-Outage-Trends
Hope you’ll find it full of interesting information.