what happen to godaddy ? did you get the email?
 

I got an email with an apology saying my credit card or other personal details were not compromised.

wtf happened ? what did I miss ?

Anonymous ddos'd them and all of their websites were down for most of the day

so it's just the hosting, the domains were not touched ?

how did you miss the 48 threads on GFY the day it happened hehe

Well, the domains were not resolving either (I think). I don't use their hosting, nor have I bought a domain name from them since 1990-who fucking knows. All that I know is that everybody was in a huge uproar.

Point being, anything I see something GoDaddy related I kind of just skim by and move on. That day though, it was hard to avoid. It was all over the TV news, web news, and GFY :1orglaugh:1orglaugh

did you miss the millions of websites that were down? You must not have been online that day :)

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:2 cents::2 cents:

move your sites

apology that your details were NOT compromised? :)
I assume it was apology for the downtime.
And it happened that somebody decided to ddos them :)

I wrote them a big angry complaint e-mail too and told them some sort of compensation was in order for their massive fail. Their response was that they are going to "reach out" to affected customers in the next few days in regards to this situation so I hope they have something incredible to say if they want to avoid a huge angry shitstorm of customers

GoDaddy knows when push comes to shove, most of their target demographic can be easily placated by giving them more discount coupons... that's likely what affected customers will get - a credit off future service and/or more coupons.

Recall about a year ago the widely publicized elephant killing controversy and lots of people saying they were going to leave, boycott, etc ... well fast-forward to now and GoDaddy seems to be doing just fine ... most all the threads I see on the domain forums regarding GoDaddy are regarding coupon codes and how to renew there for cheap.

Anyways, the biggest issue with using a domain registrar for hosting, in addition to the risk of putting all one's eggs in the same basket, is the hosting is usually outsourced to 3rd parties, and isn't the primary focus.

Lastly, GoDaddy despite the most recent problems, for low-budget shared hosting, seems to have a decent track record. Most shared hosts have several hours or more of downtime per year ... it's just that few ever hear about it, since many are small, lesser known companies.

Well, were the domains resolving or not ?

Their DNS has been pissing me off for a few days now.. :(

You didn't get an email about a free month of service for all active domains?...

I received a 30% off apology discount and I only have 1 domain left at Godaddy.

30% off after they raised their prices by 50% :1orglaugh:1orglaugh

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:Oh crap

Didn't get any emails... Oh wait, I never registered with GoDaddy :pimp

30% off apology coupon code when there's been a 32% off code floating around for a while - what an apology!

Now I have to eat my words from my previous post and agree with you.

I don't think everyone's getting the same apology..