DNS down in Anonymous attack

Posted by Tal Weiss on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Tal Weiss
Published on 2012-09-10T19:43:30Z Indexed on 2012/09/13 3:41 UTC
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As I'm writing this our company website and the web-service we developed are down in the big GoDaddy outage resulting from an Anonymous attack (or so says Twitter).
We used GoDaddy as our registrar and we use it for DNS for some domains.

Tomorrow is a new day - what can we do to mitigate such outages?
Simply moving to, say, Route 53 for DNS might not be enough.
Is there any way to remove this single point of failure?

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