Godaddy’s Outage

On 9/10/2012 Godaddy, the popular web hosting, and domain registrar became victim to online hacking or Denial of Service attack (DoS). The number of impacted websites was reported to be in the millions. It was without a doubt a difficult day for many of the small businesses hosted on Godaddy.

The infamous hacker group “Anonymous” claimed responsibility, but at this time it is unclear if it was a DoS, hack, or technical failure. Reasons for this attack on Godaddy at the moment are also unclear.

We would like to express our heartfelt sympathies for anyone who has fallen victim to these attacks. Many don’t consider the impact on everyday people, even though Godaddy was the one targeted.  The real casualties of this attack were as always, hardworking small business people who had no idea about Anonymous or their crusade.

Artur September 20, 2012