GoDaddy Down Outage Takes Out Millions Of User Sites Emails back online after hackers knock it down Says Its Troubles Were Not HackerRelated says massive outage wasn't caused by no attack behind Web BaltTech poll goes did you takes out thousands of websites Hackers take credit for smallbusiness sites it's working aggressively to restore all services Your website or slow Major ISP on fix GoDaddyhosted down; company a

GoDaddy Apologizes for Outage, Gives Customers One Month Credits GoDaddy tried to win back its customers' spirits Wednesday morning, following its server outage Monday. The world's largest domain register dolled out one month credits to all of its customers for their accounts. GoDaddy Denies it Was Hacked GoDaddy's interim CEO denied in a blog post on Tuesday that Monday's lengthy service outage was the result of a hack. Instead, he claimed it was caused by network issues. GoDaddy offers users one month credit following service outage GoDaddy's tweet confirming Monday's service outage. GoDaddy customers are being given an apology and one month of free service after grappling with Monday's service snafu. In an e-mail sent to GoDaddy users, the company's CEO Scott Wagner apologized for the outage that affected Web sites, e-mail availability, and other services . "We let you down and we know it," the e-mail read. "We take our ... GoDaddy goes down, Anonymous member takes credit Popular domain name registrar and Web and email hosting provider GoDaddy is experiencing a severe outage--both for those who use its services and those who registered their domain names with GoDaddy. GoDaddy says internal problem, not hackers, caused massive outage GoDaddy said hackers were not responsible for millions of websites it hosts going offline Monday. GoDaddy says it was not hacker-attacked SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Sept. 11 (UPI) -- GoDaddy said Tuesday an internal snafu, not a hacker attack, caused a major outage that brought down the U.S. Web hosting giant and its 10.5 million customers. GoDaddy Says Outage Was No Hack Monday's GoDaddy outage for which one person claimed credit was not a hack at all, GoDaddy said in a press release on Tuesday, just a breakdown of the domain registrar's servers. It's the first time GoDaddy has given any information at all about what happened, though the explanation is still fairly limited: "We have determined the service outage was due to a series of internal network events ... Hacker claims to take down GoDaddy GoDaddy, the massive Web hosting company, went down on Monday, taking an untold number of websites with it. GoDaddy Says Its Troubles Were Not Hacker-Related GoDaddy, the Web services company, said that its extensive technical problems on Monday were a result of internal issues, not an attack by a supporter of Anonymous, the loose confederation of rogue hackers. What really caused the massive GoDaddy outage? An outage to GoDaddy.com that took thousands of websites offline for several hours Monday was the result of internal network events, not a malicious hacker, the company said.
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