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Woes Were Caused by Denial of Service Attack — Sedo Auction

DDOS to blame for problems during auction yesterday.

Sedo’s outage during the .de domain name auction yesterday was not due to intense bidding activity, but was actually a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack, notes the firm.

In a statement released today, Sedo wrote:

Due to a malicious attempt to disrupt our services, Sedo suffered from two different distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks which temporarily caused the Sedo and GreatDomains.com websites to be slow or irresponsive between 17:55 and 20:15 CET on October, 22nd 2009 (11:55 and 2:15 PM EDT). Together with its protection provider, Sedo successfully fought both attacks and our websites are again fully operational. While the GreatDomains auction has concluded, to provide equal opportunities for all parties interested of the 1, 2 & 3-Character .de Pre-Auction, Sedo has extended the auction and attempted to contact and notify all bidders of the extended schedule.

Yesterday Sedo’s message on its web site during the outage and in tweets suggested that the downtime was due to intense bidding activity for .de domain names. Although bidding was indeed intense, there appears to have been more at play.

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