Final update: GoDaddy is up, and claims that the outage was due to internal errors and not a DDoS attack. According to many customers, sites hosted by major web host and domain registrar GoDaddy are down. According to the official GoDaddy Twitter account the company is aware of the issue and is working to resolve it.
Update: customers are complaining that GoDaddy hosted e-mail accounts are down as well, along with GoDaddy phone service and all sites using GoDaddy’s DNS service.
 Update 2: Anonymous is claiming responsibility. A member of Anonymous known as AnonymousOwn3r is claiming responsibility, and makes it clear this is not an Anonymous collective action. I’ve been adding more information below as details emerge. A tipster tells us that the technical reason for the failure is being caused by the inaccessibility of GoDaddy’s DNS servers — specifically CNS1.SECURESERVER.NET, CNS2.SECURESERVER.NET, and CNS3.SECURESERVER.NET are failing to resolve.

 AnonymousOwn3r’s bio reads “Security leader of #Anonymous (~Official member~).” The individual claims to be from Brazil, and hasn’t issued a statement as to why GoDaddy was targeted. Last year GoDaddy was pressured into opposing SOPA as customers transferred domains off the service, and the company has been the center of a few other controversies. However, AnonymousOwn3r has tweeted “I’m not anti go daddy, you guys will undestand because i did this attack.” The service Down For Everyone Or Just Me says the GoDaddy company website is down as well, but I’ve been able to access it just fine.

However, it does indeed appear that sites hosted by GoDaddy are down — including those who only have their domains registered through GoDaddy but use other hosts. For example, I’m seeing a database error on couponpuppet.com, one of the customers complaining about the outage on Twitter

An Akamai Technologies report, titled State of the Internet Q4 2011 holds the answers to the queries of those of you who think that the state of the Internet (no pun intended) is particularly deplorable in their part of the country. The report, which helped itself with data from the company’s Akamai Intelligent Platform has found the Internet connectivity in India to be among the worst in the world. The State of the Internet report provides with details about attack traffic, broadband adoption, mobile connectivity and other relevant topics concerning the Internet and its usage, as well as trends seen in this data over time. The report, among other details elaborated on several key factors. It stated that the connection speed in India, on an average was found to be as low as 0.9Mbps, which put it in line with countries, like Egypt and Venezuela.


The report further adds that the attack traffic percent in India in the fourth quarter of 2011 was 3 percent, which is lower than that it recorded in the third quarter of the year (3.7 percent). The average peak connection speed in the country was recorded to be 9651 Kbps in Q4 2011, while the average speed was 1664 Kbps. In the period of assessment (Q4 2011), there were 9,602,386 unique IP addresses that were recorded in the country. The average megabytes downloaded per month by mobile providers in the country was recorded to be 204 MB. Just a notch above India, in this respect is Kuwait (205 MB), closer on is Qatar (215 MB), while Hong Kong (3308 MB), Indonesia (6351 MB) in Asia fare exceedingly better.


In India, 27 percent of the connection is below the 256 Kbps mark, and only countries racing ahead of India in this respect is Libya, where 52 percent of the connections fall below the stipulated 256 Kbps mark, and Nigeria (31 percent), Iran (30 percent) and Nepal (32 percent). In countries like the U.S, this number is as low as 1.6 percent. Only a measly 0.5 percent of the Internet connection speeds in the country were found to be above 5 Mbps, which opposed to a whopping 83 percent by South Korea, 60 percent by Japan and 57 percent by Hong Kong pales.



Also, not surprisingly none of the Indian cities feature on the list of the fastest cities in the world, in terms of Internet connectivity speeds.