Surpised this hasn't come up here in the last few days, as I know there are some here who would have been directly affected.

On Saturday Distribute.IT was hit by a targeted attacked which crippled their network causing domain registry access and web hosting services to go offline. Obviously the means reseller's are hit aswell.

If you visit their site, you see will they have installed some blogging software inplace of their regular site:

Latest update from this morning:

This message appeared on the homepage the other day:

So there are rumours circulating that they were actually hacked twice..

http://www.crn.com.au/News/260410,di...us-attack.aspx

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Wow!

I know a good friend who was affected badly. Sites have been down since Saturday.


I wonder what will be the end result out of all this?

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Most of my sites have been down since Sat evening and my main admin email is currently dead.

A security breach is one thing, but the complete lack of contact from DistributeIT is quite another. If I hadn't thought to check Twitter, I'd still have absolutely no idea what was going on.

Huge amount of down time.

Your friend hasn't been able to move Neddy? They seem a little cagey on the whole data recovery front, lets hope they get it all back.. but I wouldn't be holding my breath.

This is bad for a lot of people.. no website, no email, no online services etc. From an internet marketing POV, it's total disaster having your sites down for so long - no earnings and it's gets worse when googlebot comes along and your site has disappeared...

If your friend doesn't have their own backups, then I will be pulling data from Google's cache now before it's too late!

I wonder if auDA will step in for any domains that expire during this peroid?

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Lets hope they 302 the site then during the down time.

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I reckon they have bigger things to worry about! I checked a site I know is on there network and it was:

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Does anyone use Distribute It as a registrar? I've been unable to access my account for nearly a full week now as they have been hit by some sort of DOS attack.

Pretty long time to be offline, .nz has suspended all expiring domains from Distribute IT and I can only hope .au see the light and do the same.

Not a nice feeling not knowing what's expiring or been renewed etc.

Hope nobody else is in the same position.

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Effecting me badly too. Just domain renewals is all I am concerned about. Waiting 5 days now, it's very frustrating.

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Apparently this is still a problem?

Yep.. mainstream media has picked it up now:

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sec...617-1g6vd.html

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