Is GoDaddy's website down?

[pick.pk]

I have contacted my isp and they are saying that the godaddy website is having some problems...

 

[DNabc]

I've seen lots of promotional shortlinks, this was at their FB page:
goo.gl/C9daZ (It's not mine).

I don't even have a link in my signature for a good while. Any link from these posts can be removed.

 

[RicoShay]

well this is a first time I am seeing this in the domain registration industry. Whenever mentioning another registrar, normally that would be about price vs. value comparison and not "their failures are bigger than ours".

Is Name.com so desperate in capturing its market share?

Yes, they are desperate. There are a number of other registrars waiting to grab all they can from GD. Even long established web hosts are threatened by GD's power and ever-growing stranglehold. Very few have the clout to compete financially - they will (however you want to view it) try to take advantage of any situation they can to grab back whatever they can get.

As for it being the first time in the domain industry, no. It's not the first time either, name.com and namecheap (maybe a few others too) took full advantage of the "bob kills an elephant" period - as well the SOPA incident.

Ok, maybe both of those situations we can easily understand and support... just this time around, its not so tasteful. Perhaps they could have thought a little more on how to tactically do it so as not to come across cheap and tacky.

On a side note - I still can't access my domain management at GD. Homepage is working though.

%%-

 

[DNabc]

I could manage my domains for a few minutes, it's almost 1:30 AM here, but now it's down again
When can I finally finish my domain transfer?

 

[Eric Lyon]

For me: All emails working, All sites in my network were live as of 5pm central time (5 hours down), FTP for all sites working, Godaddy site login still not working.

Looks like they are slowly but surely tackling everything and getting things sorted out. if nothing else, I bet they will start implementing a contingency plan to try and combat this technology failure in the future.

Things like this can happen to anyone in the industry and I don't blame godaddy one bit. It's a learning experience for them just like it would be for anyone else that has been subjected to similar technology failures.

I've been a loyal Godaddy customer for both domains & hosting since 2005 and this is one of the worst outages they have had in the last 7 years. Each year they get stronger correcting mistakes from the past and I would expect this to be a similar case, where they utilize the experience to strengthen their security, procedure, strategy, and structure.

Eric Lyon

 

[DNabc]

Any company can one day suffer something like this. Amazon and others were already threatned a longtime ago.
It's not because of this that I would stop working with them.

 

[snowbird]

For name.com to run that kind of attack promotion against godaddy so quickly, does it make anyone at all suspicious on if name.com had anything to do with godaddy going down? I would hate to think any company would stoop that low. But it does seem a little suspicious.

 

[DNabc]

I don't believe that for a second, they just reacted quickly, and as I said (but won't give more examples) they weren't the only ones.

 

[dompro]

For name.com to run that kind of attack promotion against godaddy so quickly, does it make anyone at all suspicious on if name.com had anything to do with godaddy going down? I would hate to think any company would stoop that low. But it does seem a little suspicious.

I don't think they did. But yes that made me think:

if somebody so obviously benefiting and profiting of somebody else's problems much easily than through own success,

next time somebody could actually think of "ordering" it, and that is a scary thought.

 

[south]

Everybody should use a third party DNS service to increase their resilience.

Exactly. At least for your real money makers or anything mission critical.

 

[DNabc]

Many people bought Godaddy's Premium DNS for resilience, I'm also one of their customers.
But next time other DNS services can be attacked. When a company like Godaddy can be brought down...

---------- Post added at 01:03 AM ---------- Previous post was at 12:59 AM ----------

It's working now, I've approved my domain transfer!

 

[south]

For name.com to run that kind of attack promotion against godaddy so quickly, does it make anyone at all suspicious on if name.com had anything to do with godaddy going down? I would hate to think any company would stoop that low. But it does seem a little suspicious.

Nope, just capitalism in action. I'll stick with GD. Down once in how many years? Things break, accidents happen, employees make mistakes. Regardless of elephants, blatant pandering to the lowest instincts of customers, poor morals, etc, they will continue to get my business.

 

[DNabc]

Their website is currently blazing fast, at least until everyone rushes in

 

[south]

Many people bought Godaddy's Premium DNS for resilience, I'm also one of their customers.

Was wondering about that. I use 3rd party dns with failover for my customer's sites, as well as my real sites, but use GD's standard dns for a lot of my affiliate sites, never saw the point of the "premium" dns.

Apparently it didn't matter.

 

[RazorNF]

For name.com to run that kind of attack promotion against godaddy so quickly, does it make anyone at all suspicious on if name.com had anything to do with godaddy going down? I would hate to think any company would stoop that low. But it does seem a little suspicious.

Of course not. That would literally mean the end of Name.com as a company

 

[Kamikaze]

They've add up a note:

NOTICE...
At 10:25 am PT, GoDaddy.com and associated customer services experienced intermittent outages.
Services began to be restored for the bulk of affected customers at 2:43 pm PT.
At no time was any sensitive customer information, such as credit card data, passwords or names and addresses, compromised.
We will provide an additional update within the next 24 hours.
We want to thank our customers for their patience and support.

 

[klstrphnky]

The elephants never forgive :lol:

My sincere condolences to all GoDaddy hosting customers, though. Their losses may be huge :lala:

 

[mycupcakes]

oh no.........

 

[iowadawg]

They are up and running.

Now for those crying over their hosting customers.
I ask why?

Every know host company at some point goes down, be it for a few minutes to a lot longer than godaddy was down.

 

[johname]

“The service outage was not caused by external influences. It was not a ‘hack’ and it was not a denial of service attack (DDoS),” Interim CEO Scott Wagner said in an emailed statement. “We have determined the service outage was due to a series of internal network events that corrupted router data tables.”

 

[RazorNF]

http://www.godaddy.com/newscenter/release-view.aspx?news_item_id=410