GoDaddy.com and their HOSTED SITES are down. Anonymous is all like, “we did it.”

ANONYMOUS! You dinky faces. Typically I’m down with your hijinks. However today you took down GoDaddy.com, and now a particular Furry Latex Water Sports forum where I commune with fellow misaligned souls is down. I take this as a lesson in cavorting about with meanies. I take it well.

The Verge:

Web service Go Daddy has confirmed that it is working on problems with both its site and those that it hosts. While sites that are hosted through Go Daddy aren’t down for everyone, they’re stalling for many people, and GoDaddy.com has been unavailable for an hour or more. Sites that use GoDaddy for email are also apparently having trouble.

@GoDaddy
Status Alert: Hey, all. We’re aware of the trouble people are having with our site. We’re working on it.

The company hasn’t provided details about what’s going on, but hacker group Anonymous has claimed credit on Twitter, possibly making this the latest of its many DDoS attacks. One user, “AnonymousOwn3r,” says he orchestrated the attack because, among other things, he wanted to “test how the cyber security is safe.” We’ve reached out to Go Daddy for more information, but hopefully everything will be back online soon.

Anonymous Own3r@AnonymousOwn3r
I’m taking godaddy down bacause well i’d like to test how the cyber security is safe and for more reasons that i can not talk now