JAN11

eNom Domain Name Server Post Mortem on Jan 11 Accessibility Problem

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eNom (the large domain name registrar) posted a few Twitter messages this afternoon that addressed the failure of their domain name server (DNS) system earlier today (and which apparently resulted in many web users being unable to access the millions of eNom-registered domain names).  You can read their twitter tweets here.   They indicate that they problem resulted from a DDOS (distributed denial of service) attack. 

Unfortunately, we got caught up in the problem as well, and RepairEngine(r) was down for about 90 minutes.   Lexicon's tech team has since added a couple of layers of DNS redundancy to prevent a reoccurrence of this problem.  Thanks to our users for your patience this morning.

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