Name.com Kicks Out Customer Because Of DDOS Threat

silentg · Apr 21, 2012

http://blog.name.com/2012/04/free-speech-and-ddos-attacks/

They took the easy way out and dumped the problem on another registrar.

south · Apr 21, 2012

Interesting. Thanks for sharing.

Looks like the Chinese Government might not care for this site:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/apr/20/cyber-attack-boxun-com-bo-xilai

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxun.com

Tia Wood · Apr 22, 2012

I can't believe DDOS attacks still exist.

I'm not sure they took the easy way out. It appeared to be something they couldn't/shouldn't mess with:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/apr/20/cyber-attack-boxun-com-bo-xilai

urlurl · Apr 22, 2012

So future wars will be fought using the internet (the DDOS was ordered by China's security service aka, the Chines goverment) hmmm. That doesn't seem like a friendly political move.

Name · Apr 22, 2012

funny, Chines goverment attack an ordinary site?
Talk about Boxilai is allowed

katherine · Apr 22, 2012

Ironically the blog itself seems to be down:

Error establishing a database connection

DomainScoop.Com · Apr 22, 2012

instead of taking care of the customer they kick him on his ass.

Domainsite.com name.com are owned by same company. Hope they have handled this other way around.

silentg · Apr 22, 2012

Enom kicked out the customer as well:

Name.com quickly dumped the problem on eNom by helping Buxon.comâs owner transfer the name there. eNom didnât want to have anything to do with it an fobbed it off on German domain registrar 1&1. Thatâs where the domain is at the time of writing.

http://domainnamewire.com/2012/04/22/bo-xilai-domain/

katherine · Apr 22, 2012

Can't say I am surprised. Registrars are volume businesses, nobody want to deal with shit for < $10.
However I am surprised that registrar (and parking companies) don't seem to have any particular protection against DDOS attacks.

south · Apr 22, 2012

I thought it was even more sad that they had to sink to using 1&1. Looks like that didn't last long either though. Now it's redirecting to a Chicago company. And the registrar seems to be namecheap. Edit: Nope, looks like the registrar is still 1&1. Maybe a reseller account?

DomainScoop.Com · Apr 23, 2012

katherine said:
Can't say I am surprised. Registrars are volume businesses, nobody want to deal with shit for < $10.
However I am surprised that registrar (and parking companies) don't seem to have any particular protection against DDOS attacks.

Even no body want to deal with shit for less than 10 bucks!

But come on, company need to protect its customers rather than customer is spending 10 bucsk or 1000's. It is the duty of business man to protect its customer rather than dumping them simply avoid the issue.

This is one of the worse practice I have heard or come across. I will never ever buy any shit from name.com or will always recommend my friends to do the same.

Dave Zan · Apr 23, 2012

SIKHboy said:
But come on, company need to protect its customers rather than customer is spending 10 bucsk or 1000's. It is the duty of business man to protect its customer rather than dumping them simply avoid the issue.

Has it occurred to you that Name.com's other customers could've been affected as well if Name.com continued hosting Buxon.com while sustaining DDoS attacks from that? If - knock on wood - the same thing happens with another registrar, what then?

Molotov · Apr 23, 2012

thats really lame of both name.com and enom. Sure i get the part 'affet other cutomers' but imagine they would drop any customer because osmeobdy treat ddos on them. Its just lame also such companies should have hardcore ddos cloud protections. I wonder if GoDaddy even tho SOPA proactive would take the 'ddos'.

DomainScoop.Com · Apr 25, 2012

Dave Zan said:
Has it occurred to you that Name.com's other customers could've been affected as well if Name.com continued hosting Buxon.com while sustaining DDoS attacks from that? If - knock on wood - the same thing happens with another registrar, what then?

well totally understood, but rather than being a big or small customer, customer should be protected instead of getting kicked.

draggar · Apr 25, 2012

Tia Wood said:
I can't believe DDOS attacks still exist.

Sadly, yes. I know from experience.

urlurl said:
So future wars will be fought using the internet (the DDOS was ordered by China's security service aka, the Chines goverment) hmmm. That doesn't seem like a friendly political move.

Yep and other countries can't do much about it - will the US military go to war because some kid has an anti-China website that got DDOS by the Chinese government? Nope. They can pull this because they can (and will) get away with it.

katherine said:
Can't say I am surprised. Registrars are volume businesses, nobody want to deal with shit for < $10.
However I am surprised that registrar (and parking companies) don't seem to have any particular protection against DDOS attacks.

This is also surprising - and scary.

Dave Zan · Apr 27, 2012

katherine said:
However I am surprised that registrar (and parking companies) don't seem to have any particular protection against DDOS attacks.

Some if not all actually do, and they're all aware of the reality of DDoS attacks. Probably think of bank A using only security people, while bank B uses security people, WiFi cameras, etc. based on what they feel they can (or should) afford.

SIKHboy said:
well totally understood, but rather than being a big or small customer, customer should be protected instead of getting kicked.

Absolutely. But...only if you can realistically afford to without having to sacrifice others if it can be helped.

Anywho, Name.com posted an update since then. At least they're honest, which can't be said the same of other providers.

Then again, even too much honesty isn't probably good...