Sean Toohey

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 ...

Yep at almost the same time as yesterday, Register.com is down for another day!

A day after of a serious DoS attack at ultraDNS , Register.com had been knocked out for several hours this afternoon. Unable to find any news or get an answer out of Register.com, I restarted my twitter and blogger accounts to start posting info. Seems like twits were the first to start mentioning the issues. I guess i should start using it again.. ;)