By David Hamilton, January 15, 2009
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Due to a mysterious distributed denial-of-service attack, several thousand websites hosted by GoDaddy.com (www.godaddy.com) intermittently flickered on and offline Wednesday morning for a period of hours.
CNET blogger Bob Walsh reported the outage Wednesday, writing that GoDaddy communications manager Nick Fuller stated that while many sites were interrupted, neither e-mail nor DNS services were interrupted. Also, while tech support reported that the DDoS attack made several thousand sites unreachable, this only represents a very small percentage of GoDaddy's customer base.