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September 11, 2012 03:05 am GMT

GoDaddy Gone: Can the Domain Giant Recover Its Reputation?


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Monday has not been the best of days for GoDaddy or its millions of customers. Thanks to what appears to be a distributed denial of service attack against the world's largest domain registrar, the company's DNS servers are down. With them went an untold number of websites.

Customers are understandably livid that their sites -- for many, their entire livelihoods -- are on pause. Much of the online anger is currently directed at Anonymous Own3r, the self-proclaimed security leader of Anonymous (to be clear, Anonymous is not taking any responsibility for this attack and Own3r says he is acting solely as himself).

Own3r will likely soon be forgotten. Users will retrieve their websi…
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