GoDaddy.com Goes Down for “A number of Hours” Last Night

Domain name registrar’s web site goes down.

[Updated story to reflect timeline as last night, not this morning. Note that if you still can’t reach GoDaddy.com it’s probably your ISP’s cache. You can test any site here to see if it’s just you. Also, if for some reason your Go Daddy hosting isn’t working, this is unrelated. You ought to call Go Daddy support.]

Clients trying to register fresh domain names or manage their accounts at GoDaddy.com last night hit a snag: the home page wasn’t working.

Everything is back to normal now following an outage lasting “a number of hours”.

Go Daddy CIO Neil Warner states the outage was not the result of any sort of attack and was the firm’s own fault. It made some changes to the site this morning and this caused the home page to stop working. While it worked to resolve the problem the firm forwarded GoDaddy.com to the firm’s mobile site. The mobile site was operational and allows users to do many of the things they do at GoDaddy.com.

Warner stated the outage clearly shouldn’t have lasted this long and he is investigating how it happened and how to avoid it in the future.