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GoDaddy Suffers Massive Outage

September 11, 2012 by Michele Neylon

GoDaddy is the world’s largest registrar and hosting provider.

Earlier this evening they suffered a massive outage which appears to be related primarily to their DNS.

However it is unclear if that is the issue and it is also unclear as to what is the cause.

At the moment pretty much every tech blog on the planet, tech journo and tech pundit is pushing out blog posts, tweets and articles based mainly on speculation.

What is known is that the outage was massive and brought down thousands of sites worldwide.

The GoDaddy home page is currently much quieter than normal and is displaying a simple message from their new (interim?) CEO Scott Wagner apologising for the issues:

In a completely unsurprising move several of GoDaddy’s smaller competitors are trying to take advantage of the outage to lure GoDaddy customers away.

Filed Under: godaddy Tagged With: dns, Domain Name System, Go Daddy, godaddy, Twitter, Web hosting service

About Michele Neylon

Michele is founder and managing director of Irish domain registrar and hosting company Blacknight. Michele has been deeply involved in domain and internet policy discussions for more than a decade.
He also co-hosts the Technology.ie podcast.

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