Showing posts with label Godaddy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Godaddy. Show all posts

Monday, September 10, 2012

The Case For Putting Eggs in Multiple Baskets




Today hundreds of small businesses experienced web site outages. Go Daddy, the most popular domain registrar/web hosting company, saw its DNS servers attacked after 10AM Pacific time. The alleged attacker claimed to be working alone, to have taken down the entire Go Daddy DNS array and that he wanted to test the cyber security. DNS servers on the web are what translate the name of a web site (such as www.godaddy.com) to the numerical address assigned to it. Find a more detailed explanation of DNS here