Why Are So Many Websites Down – GoDaddy Hit With Denial of Service Attack DNS Down
September 10, 2012 3:25 PM 
If you’ve gotten several broken links while surfing the internet this afternoon, the problem is probably not on your end. GoDaddy.com the internet domain registrar and site hosting service was hit with a severe Denial of Service attack.
In layman’s terms, a denial of service attack is an attempt to make a network, such as GoDaddy, unavailable to its users.
In the case of the GoDaddy attack, the DNS, or Domain Name System, was attacked.
A member of the online group Anonymous has claimed responsibility.
UPDATE 3:50PM:
GoDaddy responds via Twitter that they are aware of the outage and working frantically to restore service to downed websites.
[Mashable]
Next: The Twitter Member Who Claims Responsibility in GoDaddy Attack
Also: Was Anonymous Responsible for May 2012 Attack on Facebook?
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