Network Solutions suffers DDoS attack

The domain registrar, Network Solutions LLC, was offline yesterday and the outage affected an untold number of its clients.

They announced on their facebook page that they were experiencing a DDoS attack just before 11am and by 1:30pm said that the attack had been mitigated. Beyond that, the company has been rather mum on the issue, much to the consternation of its customers who felt they were inadequately updated about the attack.

This is not the first time this month that they have experienced an outage. Organizations registered with the DNS provider have suffered outages twice this month. In June, researchers from the networking giant Cisco reported on their security blog that attackers hijacked Network Solutions’ DNS name-servers and replaced them with name-servers belonging to a Ztomy[.]com. That incident affected as many as 5000 domains.

At around 1 PM today, Cisco took to its security blog again and noted that Network Solution’s own website had been offline for at least the last 24 hours.

No comment has been forthcoming from the parent company, Web.com.

Cisco also wrote on its security blog that Network Solutions is an attractive target because it was the original registrar for .com, .org, and .net domain names.