(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – After being hit by denial-of-service attacks that caused intermittent outages last week, domain name registrar Register.com (www.register.com) had recovered from the attack at around 5pm EDT Friday after around 48 hours of disruption, according to Register.com’s official Twitter account.
“Services have been restored for most of our customers including hosting and email,” wrote Register.com chief executive Larry Kutscher in an apologetic email sent to customers Friday. “However for some of our customers, services are not fully restored.” Kutscher notes in the email that the service outages are “unacceptable,” and the company is working round the clock to restore services to all customers.
Register.com’s troubles began, according to its official twitter feed, on Wednesday at around 4 pm, when the company reported service disruptions but had fixed them, however, the situation did not fully resolve, and on Thursday, Register.com reported that it had been hit by a DDoS attack, an attack which commonly involves saturating the victim website with requests, rendering it unable to respond to legitimate traffic.
On Friday, Register.com executive vice president Roni Jacobson told the WHIR that her company was working with large Internet service providers including Comcast, CableVision and Time Warner to restore service. According to the company’s Twitter feed, CableVision customers were the first to have their service restored.
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