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GoDaddy is Down, Anonymous Claims Responsibility

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Godaddy.com is down, but so are some of the site’s DNS servers, which means GoDaddy hosted e-mail accounts are down as well, and lots more. It’s currently unclear if the servers are being unresponsive or if they are completely offline. Either way, the result is that if your DNS is hosted on GoDaddy, your site may also look as if it is down, because it cannot resolve.

via GoDaddy is Down, Anonymous Claims Responsibility.

Pingdom flagged this site as being down for 55 minutes starting at around 5:15AM.

Takedowns run amok? The strange Secret Service/GoDaddy assault on JotForm

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The shutdown of his entire domain, without notice, for something a user had done even after protections were in place against it, seemed hugely unfair to Tank; he made his public case in terms that would also apply to other user-generated sites like YouTube. “We have 2 millions user generated forms,” he wrote. “It is not possible for us to manually review all forms. This can happen to any Web site that allows user-generated content.”

via Takedowns run amok? The strange Secret Service/GoDaddy assault on JotForm (updated).

Jotform.com is back up and it seems like an interesting idea.  Creating a form on that site is very easy but creating one locally in WordPress is easy too.  They seem to have a lot of users however.  It will also be interesting to see what happens with dns should the government abuse its authority (or lack thereof) in taking down sites capriciously and without due process.  The Internet was designed to route around damage.  Also this …

JotForm today moved its domains away from GoDaddy to registrars NameCheap and Hover. Tank still doesn’t know why his domain was suspended or when it might be returned; however, a WHOIS search this afternoon revealed that GoDaddy has at last removed the domain from its penalty box.