GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down • Hacker News Board

Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Sep 10, 2012, 6:36 PM UTC

nord wrote: post #21

whafro wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As much as I dislike GoDaddy, and am glad I've switched away, I can't see how this kind of attack can possibly result in progress towards Anonymous's goals. It serves only to make them seem like radical thugs, far from being aggressive protectors of internet freedom.

My thoughts exactly. This isn't affecting just GoDaddy but a great number of other sites (including mine, unfortunately).

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Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down

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Post by yoshhhhi » Mon, Sep 10, 2012, 6:38 PM UTC

damn! my bussines is down!!!

Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down

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Post by gbin » Mon, Sep 10, 2012, 6:38 PM UTC

The elephants are thanking Anonymous...

Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down

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Post by Cushman » Mon, Sep 10, 2012, 6:40 PM UTC

drivebyacct2 wrote: post #5

If you are using GoDaddy for anything, you deserve what you get. If you are using GoDaddy for not just registration but also for DNS, I would just fix it as soon as possible and not tell anyone. Also, do backups, use good password practices, and everything else that everyone knows and the lazy will still fail to do. Oh, 20 seconds in and a downvote. I can take them, I didn't ignore the last 8 problems GoDaddy has bee…

Millions of normal not-too-savvy folks use GoDaddy because to them it's synonymous with domain registration. They profoundly do not deserve their sites to be down for that.

For shame.

Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down

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Post by frannk » Mon, Sep 10, 2012, 6:40 PM UTC

https://www.dnspod.com is a good FREE dns provider, focusing on domain/record management, you can have a try;

Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down

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Post by qeorge » Mon, Sep 10, 2012, 6:41 PM UTC

drivebyacct2 wrote: post #5

If you are using GoDaddy for anything, you deserve what you get. If you are using GoDaddy for not just registration but also for DNS, I would just fix it as soon as possible and not tell anyone. Also, do backups, use good password practices, and everything else that everyone knows and the lazy will still fail to do. Oh, 20 seconds in and a downvote. I can take them, I didn't ignore the last 8 problems GoDaddy has bee…

This is an example of comments that are hurting HN's quality.

Absolutely nothing useful to add to the discussion, just snark. Yet for some reason its the highest voted comment.

Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down

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Post by orienwu » Mon, Sep 10, 2012, 6:42 PM UTC

There's a discussion about this on WHT.

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1190617

Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down

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Post by larrys » Mon, Sep 10, 2012, 6:43 PM UTC

dollar wrote: post #19

Interesting whois for GoDaddy. :) GODADDY.COM.VATAXIDERMIST.COM GODADDY.COM.THEYOUNGCONS.COM GODADDY.COM.THEVILLAGEAT63RDSTREET.COM GODADDY.COM.THEFOREXTHIEF.COM GODADDY.COM.THECOTTONWIFE.COM GODADDY.COM.TEST.CHUMCHUM.NET GODADDY.COM.STAGEDOORPRODUCTIONS.COM GODADDY.COM.SKATEONGRANDROLLERRINK.COM GODADDY.COM.SHOPCOULSDON.COM GODADDY.COM.SHIRLEEMCGARRY.COM GODADDY.COM.SETHPAPA.COM GODADDY.COM.SANGRAALBODYWORK.COM GODA…

That's an artifact of the way whois information is pulled up. Basically for any domain registered you can create a third level domain and have it come up when someone searches for that domain using a command line whois utility.

What you are seeing above (and some of the examples) are the result of clueless customers who got some instruction and entered into the wrong field at their registrar. Other cases are people trying to get hits or bring attention to their site. This has been around since the mid 90's at least.

Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down

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Post by mikegirouard » Mon, Sep 10, 2012, 6:44 PM UTC

dshankar wrote: post #49

Anonymous is claiming responsibility: http://twitter.com/AnonOpsLegion/status/245218636187443200

Interesting. It looks like either Anon has changed their objectives, or someone is trying really hard to make them look bad.

I'm reminded of the Romney records[1] and more recently the Apple device IDs[2] stories.

[1]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4480301 [2]: http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=4500479

Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down

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Post by igorgue » Mon, Sep 10, 2012, 6:44 PM UTC

drivebyacct2 wrote: post #5

If you are using GoDaddy for anything, you deserve what you get. If you are using GoDaddy for not just registration but also for DNS, I would just fix it as soon as possible and not tell anyone. Also, do backups, use good password practices, and everything else that everyone knows and the lazy will still fail to do. Oh, 20 seconds in and a downvote. I can take them, I didn't ignore the last 8 problems GoDaddy has bee…

Since GoDaddy is down I had to go to the comments page to see what's going on. Just to find this asshole. Hacker News used to be cool.