GoDaddy restored some services on Monday as the company battled online attacks that severely impacted its hosting and domain-name registration operations.
"We're still working," the company wrote on Twitter. "Getting closer to normal. Thanks for all your patience and understanding."
Elizabeth L. Driscoll, vice president of public relations for GoDaddy, said via email that the outage started around 10:25 AM Pacific time, and services for the bulk of affected customers were restored at 2:43 PM.
"At no time was any sensitive customer information, such as credit card data, passwords or names and addresses, compromised," she wrote. "We will provide an additional update within the next 24 hours."
The attack apparently affected GoDaddy's DNS (Domain Name System) servers, which direct browsers to the correct IP address after a domain name is requested. GoDaddy temporarily redirected its DNS traffic for GoDaddy.com to VeriSign, which also registers domain names and runs the ".com" and ".net" top-level domains, Driscoll said.
"Our services are now back to normal, we are no longer redirecting DNS traffic," she said. "It was helpful because it allowed our customers to manage their accounts while we restored services. We thank Verisign for their assistance today."
