Changes

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>

On April 1st, 2009, Register.com suffered another major [[DDoS]] attack, disrupting thousands of web sites. <ref>[http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2009/04/web_sites_disrupted_by_attack.html The Washington Post]</ref>The FBI and The Department of Homeland Security were engaged to help Register.com solve the issue.<ref>[http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2009/04/regitsercom_suf.html;jsessionid=HIULXEGJM5SXDQE1GHPSKH4ATMY32JVN Information week's Security Web Blog]</ref> Services experienced different kinds of problems for almost three days and the system was restored through counter-measures and minimized the disruption.<ref>[http://www.network-box.com/aboutus/news/registercom-affected-massive-ddos Network Box]</ref> Their CEO, Larry Kutscher explains, "For the past three days Register.com has been experiencing intermittent service disruptions as a result of a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack – an intentionally malicious flooding of our systems from various points across the internet. We know the disruption of business this has caused our customers is unacceptable, and we are working round the clock to combat it."

On April 1st, 2009, Register.com suffered another major [[DDoS]] attack, disrupting thousands of web sites. <ref>[http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2009/04/web_sites_disrupted_by_attack.html The Washington Post]</ref>The FBI and The Department of Homeland Security were engaged to help Register.com solve the issue.<ref>[http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2009/04/regitsercom_suf.html;jsessionid=HIULXEGJM5SXDQE1GHPSKH4ATMY32JVN Information week's Security Web Blog]</ref> Services experienced different kinds of problems for almost three days and the system was restored through counter-measures which minimized the disruption.<ref>[http://www.network-box.com/aboutus/news/registercom-affected-massive-ddos Network Box]</ref> Their CEO, Larry Kutscher explains, "For the past three days Register.com has been experiencing intermittent service disruptions as a result of a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack – an intentionally malicious flooding of our systems from various points across the internet. We know the disruption of business this has caused our customers is unacceptable, and we are working round the clock to combat it."

==Web.com's acquisition of Register.com==

==Web.com's acquisition of Register.com==