Business & Tech

GoDaddy Outage Affects Millions

The popular website hosting provider was out recently, a hacker claimed responsibility.

BigDaddy.com, the popular Internet website hosting service, experienced major outages this week, according to a report by CNET.

Go Daddy is one of the largest website hosts and also the largest domain registrar according to CNET.

The outage could affect thousands - or even millions - of sites. A company spokesman for Go Daddy did not comment on how many sites were affected.

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"Go Daddy is experiencing intermittent outages. This is impacting our site and some customer sites," company spokeswoman Elizabeth Driscoll told CNET in a phone interview. "We are working to restore all services and some are back online as we speak."

A number of comments on Twitter popped up on the Twitter feed after the outage.

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  • Pretty disgusted that @GoDaddy haven't bothered to email their customers yet. Are they hoping most of them didn't notice? - Laurence Durnan
  • Go Daddy web hosting service hacked - GoDaddy is hit by technical problems, putting the web hosting site out of action - My Broadband
  • I had ONE business interaction with @GoDaddy and I found them reprehensible. I love Anonymous for hacking them. - Jim Norton

And at least one took advantage of GoDaddy's problem:

  • The @GoDaddy outage appears to be fixed. You may want to take this time to switch your domain to @Hover, a much better domain manager. - Collision Media

In a recent Tweet GoDaddy says the damage has been repaired and all sites are back online.

  • Most customer hosted sites back online. We're working out the last few kinks for our site & control centers. No customer data compromised. - GoDaddy

According to the report, a hacker using a Twitter account called "Anonymous Own3r" claimed credit for the outage.

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