Register.com DNS outages

Sat Nov 13 16:40:08 UTC 2010

Thanks for the heads up. I just sent an email out to my companies staff to keep an eye on our own customers if they
are noticing any issues. 

Times like this, makes you curious what kind of infrastructure register.com has? How does one protect against DDOS?

> Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2010 08:11:12 -0800
> Subject: Register.com DNS outages
> From: david at ulevitch.com
> To: nanog at nanog.org
> 
> Good morning,
> 
> Does anyone have any updates they can share on the register.com outage
> that has been happening since sometime yesterday?  They don't seem to
> have any sort of explanation or status page (aside from the note on
> their homepage).  Is there anything we can do to help?  It's certainly
> impacting reachability to a tremendous number of domains.
> 
> Thanks,
> David
> 