March 12, 2007 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Domain registrar and Web hosting provider Go Daddy (godaddy.com) announced on Sunday it was hit with "significant and sustained" distributed denial-of-service attacks Sunday. The attacks resulted in four to five hours of intermittent service disruptions, including hosting and email, Go Daddy's chief information security officer Neil Warner said in an email. The services returned back to normal later in the day.
Warner maintained that the problems were not caused by Go Daddy's response to the US early switch to daylight saving time. On Friday, one Go Daddy customer expressed concerns that the Web host would not be ready for the switch on Sunday after the company's technical support team told him it didn't need to install DST patches because its servers are located in Arizona, which does not observe DST.
"With regard to DST, GoDaddy has been engaged in preparation and patching and worked closely with our vendors for some time leading up to the DST change," Warner said in his email.
He also added that Go Daddy has made "significant" investments to protect against attacks, and that its security teams will analyze the attacks to "identify additional defense mechanisms that can be used".
