Update on September 12th: Following investigation, GoDaddy has officially stated that the service outage was caused by a series of internal network events that corrupted router data tables. It was earlier believed that this disruption was caused by a Denial of Service attack (DDoS).
As you may already know, a significant share of Techinline users on both the Client’s and Expert’s ends were unable to start the Techinline application or access our homepage for a span of several hours yesterday afternoon. This down-time was caused by a massive DDoS attack on Techinline’s domain registrar, GoDaddy.
GoDaddy, one of world’s the largest domain registrars and hosting providers, was hit by an apparent DDoS attack from Anonymous, which resulted in millions of websites including Techinline being taken down. [Read more…] about Techinline Service Disrupted by Major GoDaddy Outage