[ISN] Register.com suffers further DOS attack

[InfoSec News]

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/638/1051638/register-com-suffers-dos-attack

By Dean Pullen
The Inquirer
2 April 2009

EARLIER TODAY we reported that the domain name registrar behemoth 
Register.com suffered from wide-scale DNS nameserver problems last 
night.

The problems have resumed this evening, occurring shortly after 19.30 
GMT. Names hosted by Register.com's nameservers are not resolving, and 
the company website is currently inaccessible.

A variety of INQ readers have commented on the original article, with 
further news of this new outage.

Though some pointed to a denial-of-service attack yesterday, 
Register.com support staff are now actively telling customers 
over-the-phone that the company's servers are definitely currently under 
fire from some form of DDOS.

>From the sounds being heard from disgruntled customers, Register.com is 
poised to lose a lot of business from this fiasco.

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