Network Solutions (netsol), the company behind domain names had a rough day today and it dragged its customers down with it. Apparently a DDoS attack knocked out their network making hosted web sites and DNS servers inaccessible. This site, while not hosted on netsol, does have its name servers hosted with them and so it had several outages while netsol was combating the attack.
I don't understand how a company like netsol could fall prey to such attacks. Netsol has been around for decades, they are the original Internic, the only domain provider back when domains were free. I'm sure they have deep pockets and lots of experts working for them. Surely they have fat enough pipes to absorb such attacks and leave plenty of capacity for their users. And to make matters worse, the company's social outlets like Facebook and Twitter were silent for hours during the outage.
Things seem to be back to normal now, but if these guys can't get it right, what hope is there for the rest of us?
Give a few Sats