Will April Fools Day End?

Well April fools day came and went, and despite all the hype and panic, the Confiker virus launched without any real problems. Coincidentally a couple large DNS companies started having real serious problems, disabling access to websites across the world wide web.


First UltraDNS the company that control domains for giants like Amazon.com, went down under a Denial of Service Attack, Then Register.com had a 3 hour outage yesterday and is down again today! Seems like a long running joke with no end in sight.

Despite these major outages there has been almost nothing reported in any of the mainstream media, and in fact the news broke first on Twitter.com. This lack of info prompted me to start tweeting again, and after all the Register.com customers started jumping on Twitter, Register.com started using Twitter for damage control.

As I write this Register.com is still down for the count, their latest tweet stating:

Register_com@SeanToohey Register.com is having intermittent service issues - we have everyone working on it. Will provide an update soon.

UPDATE:
After filing this blog on my company website, Register.com reported this:

We experienced a DDoS attack today- all customer sites/services have been restored; we continue to have intermittent outages on our website