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Tomorrow's news: "VeriSign's DNS is down."

• tptacek 14y ago
  That would be interesting, because Verisign has, as these things go, a fairly sophisticated anti-DDOS system; I would, on the other hand, be surprised to hear GoDaddy had much of anything at all.
  • snowwrestler 14y ago
    I would have thought that AT&T had a robust DNS system too, but a DDOS took it down for most of a day a few weeks ago.
• wethesheeple 14y ago
  Ain't gonna happen. Besides, it wouldn't really matter. The data is mirrored everywhere. And anyone can keep a copy on hand for such emergencies. A very large portion of GoDaddy's data is pure garbage anyway: it points to a single IP for a GoDaddy servers that serves PPC landing pages with no content. It's not a major loss to anyone but GoDaddy if this goes offline. Over 50,000 "websites" that are nothing more than parked pages with PPC ads and no content. We can see that a domain name does not necessarily equate to a website with content. And when GoDaddy quotes the "number of websites" they are responsible for, or the media reports on GoDaddy, they will quote the number of domain names registered with GoDaddy[1], not the number of websites with content. 1. Many of these are domain names for which GoDaddy themselves are the registrants, placing GoDaddy in direct competition with their registrar service customers. Who is responsible for the (lack of) rules that allow GoDaddy to compete with its customers? Your friends at ICANN. The web can survive without GoDaddy but not without Verisign, and for all intents and purposes the .com servers will never "be down" because the data is mirrored in too many places.