Well they are saying it's DDOS themselves. Straight from their website.
IMPORTANT NOTICE: 3:30 PM, Saturday, November,13th - On Friday, November 12th we were hit by a distributed denial of service attack (ddos). We are actively working to mitigate the attack and restore services as soon as possible. Every available resource has been deployed to address this malicious attack. If you are having trouble accessing your webmail, please try the below alternative webmail access points in order: webmail01.register.com, webmail02.register.com, webmail03.register.com. Please note, only one of these 3 webmail access points will work for your specific Register.com email address. If you require further assistance please contact customer service at 1888.734.4783. We will update you as soon as we have more information. > Subject: RE: Register.com DNS outages > Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2010 18:23:07 -0500 > From: esanb...@tsd-inc.com > To: morrowc.li...@gmail.com; brandon....@brandontek.com > CC: nanog@nanog.org > > Has it been confirmed that register.com's outage was due to a DDOS? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Christopher Morrow [mailto:morrowc.li...@gmail.com] > Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2010 2:01 PM > To: Brandon Kim > Cc: nanog group > Subject: Re: Register.com DNS outages > > On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Brandon Kim > <brandon....@brandontek.com> wrote: > > > > Thanks for the heads up. I just sent an email out to my companies > > staff to keep an eye on our own customers if they are noticing any > issues. > > > > Times like this, makes you curious what kind of infrastructure > register.com has? How does one protect against DDOS? > > > > this is not rocket science....srsly... > > <http://www.verizonbusiness.com/Products/security/network-based/> > > as per usual, vzb's website is a poor excuse for a marketting tool (or > sales tool, or information gathering tool.. ugh) but, bullet #2 is one > option (that register.com I think actually was offered at one point in > time...) > > is 3250/month cheaper than sla payouts from 3 days of running outages > each year or so? > > -chris >
