Sedo - Denial Of Service Attack Compensation
Just got this from Sedo about a Ddos attack they have been going through for the past few days..
Quote:
Due to an unexpected distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack this weekend,
Sedo's parking servers were temporarily affected by a flood of artificial traffic.
A DDoS attack means that somebody with access to a lot of computers (so called
Bot networks) opened connections to our servers until they were overloaded and
unable to react. This attack disrupted our parking program and caused a short-term
loss of revenue for many of our customers which has been compensated in the manner
described below.
The attack began on Saturday afternoon but due to the tireless efforts of Sedo’s
technical team over the weekend, by 3pm (CET) Sunday we had part of the parking
system back online - all domains parked with URL forwarding – and by 10:30pm (CET)
Sunday the entire system was up and running again.
The DDoS attack was something initiated externally without Sedo’s knowledge and
resolving the issue was a long and difficult process. In an effort to keep users
notified of the problem and updated with progress being made to get the system
working again, we made postings on forums and in each Sedo member account with
a brief explanation and notice that any revenue lost due to the attack would
be compensated.
Sedo has compensated users for any revenue lost Saturday and Sunday by reviewing
each domain’s parking performance between August 13th and August 21 and has
based compensation on the day your domains earned their highest parking revenue.
This compensation has been paid out on a per-domain basis and you can now view
the updated statistics in your Sedo parking account.
Sedo apologizes for any inconvenience caused by the disruption and appreciates
your understanding.
Sincerely,
Your Sedo Team
Anyone who is using them for domain parking, you might want to check your adjusted payout, im quite liking ours ;)
Regards,
Lee
