Register.Com Recovers From DDoS Attack
April 3, 3 Comments
I just confirmed this a few minutes ago with CEO, Larry Kutscher.
Not all of their customers had been affected, but it appears that some of their systems had suffered service disruptions as a result of a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.
For those that don’t know, this type of attack floods systems with traffic from various points across the internet. As such its impossible to effectively shut down.
Here is an extract from the email sent out to Register.com customers 10 mins ago:
“Services have been restored for most of our customers including hosting and email. However for some of our customers, services are not fully restored. We know this is unacceptable.
We are using all available means to restore services to every one of our customers and halt this criminal attack on our business and our customers’ business. We are working round the clock to make that happen.
We are committed to updating you in as timely manner as possible, please check your inbox or our website for additional updates.
Thank you for your patience.”
I believe its great that Register.com notified their customers of this attack. Are you a register.com customer? Did you notice anything wrong? Feel free to post a comment.
