Domain registrar, eNom, became the target of a DDoS attack today, from which it recovered.
According to information shared on the eNom public support channel, the DDoS attack affected DNS and domain name resolving.
At 3:14am Eastern, eNom posted:
“We are currently aware of issues effecting domain name resolution. We are actively monitoring and working to resolve quickly.”
A few minutes later, the status was updated:
“We are still investigating the intermittent domain name resolution problems. We appreciate everyone’s patience.”
At 5:13am there was another update:
“While we still do not have an ETA to provide, our engineers are making progress and seeing connection improvement. Thank you.”
Moments later, the good news arrived:
“The DNS resolution issue has been resolved. You still may experience intermittent issues as everything clears up. Thank you!”
A few minutes ago, eNom tweeted:
“We apologize for any overnight DNS slowness/outages experienced due to a DDOS. All services are back up.”
Cybercriminals often target domain registrars to affect DNS servers providing service to companies. In recent days, a massive DDoS attack affected numerous service providers in the US, by targeting their DNS provider, Dyn.
For more information on eNom downtimes and updates to issues, you can follow @enomsupport on Twitter.
