TheRegister.co.uk, is reporting that Domain Name registrar enom appears to be having a huge DNS outage citing quite a few tweets from people who say service has been down for hours.
The story says:
“”Domain name registrar eNom appears to have gone titsup worldwide since the early hours of this morning, according to reports from furious customers who – at time of publication – were yet to get a response from the Washington-based firm.””
The story goes on to say:
“Some customers reported intermittent DNS issues with the service, while others – particularly those based in Europe – complained that their websites were down.”
UPDATE: We received this email from a representative of Rightside around 11:30am EST:
“It appears that there was a DNS outage this morning which affected some of our customers. We have resolved the issue and are investigating the cause and ways, if possible, to avoid this happening in the future.”
According to the pattern we have been seeing, this DDOS outage should be accompanied by some domain thefts.
Hell MHB,
Looks like this will be more fodder for CRIDO, to embellish their standing on the compromises in the DNS that the GTLDs introductions would spawn more of these situations. They are spot on.
My post on Domain Kings Joint Venture (linkedIn) speaks of these DNS compromises and how they will be proliferating with Googles backing of the GTLD Experiment you may want to check it out.
Kudos on your heads-up.
Gratefully, Jeff Schneider (Contact Group) (Metal Tiger)
Hello MHB,
We’d be interested in your opinion as an ICA member as to what the ICAs stance is on CRIDOs persistent warnings, that are now actually appearing to happen more and more, and whether there should be more ICANN oversight of this GTLD Experiment.
Gratefully, Jeff Schneider (Contact Group) (Metal Tiger)