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Hacker claims to take down GoDaddy

GoDaddy Hacked

GoDaddy, the massive Web hosting company, went down on Monday, taking an untold number of websites with it. A person affiliated with the hacking collective Anonymous -- named @AnonymousOwn3r on Twitter -- claimed responsibility for the outage.

 

Go Daddy Sold For $2.25 Billion, Says Source

Go Daddy Sold For $2.25 Billion, Says Source

The parent company of GoDaddy.com, a top registrar of Internet domain names, has been sold to a group of private investment firms for $2.25 billion, a person familiar with the transaction told The Associated Press.

 

20,000 customers leave GoDaddy.com in response to CEO's elephant-shooting video

20,000 customers leave GoDaddy.com in response to CEO's elephant-shooting video

Many customers of Web host GoDaddy.com have jumped ship after CEO Bob Parsons posted a video of himself shooting an elephant in Zimbabwe last week. More than 20,000 former GoDaddy users have
transferred their accounts to rival NameCheap.com, which promised to
donate 20 percent of the revenue raised to the nonprofit Save the Elephants.

 

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