Is GoDaddy under attack?

GoDaddy staff fall prey to social engineering scam in cryptocurrency exchange attack wave. The domain registrar has confirmed that employees became embroiled in wider attacks. GoDaddy employees were exploited to facilitate attacks on multiple cryptocurrency exchanges through social engineering and phishing.

Did GoDaddy get hacked?

The world’s largest domain registrar, GoDaddy, with 19 million customers, has disclosed a data breach impacting web hosting account credentials. With more than 19 million customers, 77 million domains managed, and millions of websites hosted, most everyone has heard of GoDaddy.

Why you should not use GoDaddy?

#1 GoDaddy is overpriced GoDaddy lures customers in with prices that look low. However, they often promote prices that only apply for the first year, then lock you in for more expensive renewal prices. GoDaddy also charges for items that in the modern tech world, you don’t need to pay for. SSL Certificates.

How safe is GoDaddy?

Is GoDaddy Reliable? Yes, GoDaddy is reliable. They are in the top ten of web hosting service providers. The uptime of their servers are positive and their speed tests are relatively quick.

Who is GoDaddy and what does it do?

GoDaddy is an internet domain registrar and web hosting company, with a large customer base of small businesses. By allowing these businesses buy Office 365 and cloud storage under their own domain name, SMB customers seemed to be getting the best of both worlds. But were they really getting that?

Why did Godaddy have a service outage?

We have determined the service outage was due to a series of internal network events that corrupted router data tables. Once the issues were identified, we took corrective actions to restore services for our customers and GoDaddy.com. We have implemented measures to prevent this from occurring again.”

Why did all of my GoDaddy domains go offline?

Today, GoDaddy lost control of its services almost entirely, coming under attack by apparently Anonymous (updated: it wasn’t – see below) causing almost every one of its hosted websites to go offline, along with most of GoDaddy’s email service and some of the domains registered through GoDaddy.

Is there a boycott against GoDaddy.com?

(GoDaddy reversed their opinion shortly after a call to boycott the company because of this.)