Re: Can anyone shed some light as to what is happening with Register.com?

2009-04-02 Thread Steve Pirk
On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Steve Pirk wrote: On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: On Wed, 1 Apr 2009 17:10:24 -0500 Erich Kolb ek...@kolbsoft.com wrote: Looks like they are having some serious issues. It doesn't appear that any of their domains are resolving. Hosted or otherwise. Hmm

Re: Can anyone shed some light as to what is happening with Register.com?

2009-04-02 Thread Paul Ferguson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 11:40 PM, Steve Pirk or...@pirk.com wrote: Wasn't Conficker also configured to try and register a ton of randomly generated domains? Two registrars go dark today? Yes, but there is a counter effort that is being quite

Re: Can anyone shed some light as to what is happening with Register.com?

2009-04-02 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 2:40 AM, Steve Pirk or...@pirk.com wrote: On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Steve Pirk wrote: On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: On Wed, 1 Apr 2009 17:10:24 -0500 Erich Kolb ek...@kolbsoft.com wrote: Looks like they are having some serious issues.  It doesn't appear

Re: Can anyone shed some light as to what is happening with Register.com?

2009-04-01 Thread Erich Kolb
Looks like they are having some serious issues. It doesn't appear that any of their domains are resolving. Hosted or otherwise. On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 4:57 PM, Joseph Nuara j...@tess.moorecap.com wrote: We are no longer able to resolve A records for sites that they host. The NOC has not been

Can anyone shed some light as to what is happening with Register.com?

2009-04-01 Thread Joseph Nuara
We are no longer able to resolve A records for sites that they host. The NOC has not been able to provide any color and the main lines are tied up --they were able to tell me they were having a DNS issue but that was it. Thanks in advance for any info that you can share. Joe

Re: Can anyone shed some light as to what is happening with Register.com?

2009-04-01 Thread George Imburgia
On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Erich Kolb wrote: Looks like they are having some serious issues. It doesn't appear that any of their domains are resolving. Hosted or otherwise. On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 4:57 PM, Joseph Nuara j...@tess.moorecap.com wrote: We are no longer able to resolve A records for

Re: Can anyone shed some light as to what is happening with Register.com?

2009-04-01 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
On Wed, 1 Apr 2009 17:10:24 -0500 Erich Kolb ek...@kolbsoft.com wrote: Looks like they are having some serious issues. It doesn't appear that any of their domains are resolving. Hosted or otherwise. Hmm -- UltraDNS was attacked; I wonder if there's a connection.

Re: Can anyone shed some light as to what is happening with Register.com?

2009-04-01 Thread Steve Pirk
On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: On Wed, 1 Apr 2009 17:10:24 -0500 Erich Kolb ek...@kolbsoft.com wrote: Looks like they are having some serious issues. It doesn't appear that any of their domains are resolving. Hosted or otherwise. Hmm -- UltraDNS was attacked; I wonder if