On January 6th, 2001, Register.com had a severe Distributed Denial of Service ([[DDoS]]) attack that lasted for an entire week. It was the first major attack using [[DNS]] servers as reflectors.<ref>[http://www.secure64.com/news-register-reflective-ddos-dns Secure 64]</ref> | On January 6th, 2001, Register.com had a severe Distributed Denial of Service ([[DDoS]]) attack that lasted for an entire week. It was the first major attack using [[DNS]] servers as reflectors.<ref>[http://www.secure64.com/news-register-reflective-ddos-dns Secure 64]</ref> |