Register.com DNS outages

Sat Nov 13 23:23:07 UTC 2010

Has it been confirmed that register.com's outage was due to a DDOS?

-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher Morrow [mailto:morrowc.lists at gmail.com] 
Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2010 2:01 PM
To: Brandon Kim
Cc: nanog group
Subject: Re: Register.com DNS outages

On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Brandon Kim
<brandon.kim at brandontek.com> wrote:
>
> 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?
>

this is not rocket science....srsly...

<http://www.verizonbusiness.com/Products/security/network-based/>

as per usual, vzb's website is a poor excuse for a marketting tool (or
sales tool, or information gathering tool.. ugh) but, bullet #2 is one
option (that register.com I think actually was offered at one point in
time...)

is 3250/month cheaper than sla payouts from 3 days of running outages
each year or so?

-chris