You're welcome Michael. It's a bit frustrating that every site I want to
check on something is down.
Best wishes,
Cathy
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Cooley [mailto:michael_at_newsummer.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2014 11:10 PM
To: John Cooley Mailing List
Subject: RE: Many genealogy websites are down
Thanks, Cathy. I learned about this moments ago through ancestry's
facebook page. Before that, I called their registrar. Apparently, they
include facebook and yahoo among their customers. So this looks like it
was a broader attack, perhaps directed at some data centers.
-Michael
On Thu, June 19, 2014 4:02 pm, Cathy Meder-Dempsey wrote:
> Michael
>
>
> You may have heard that ancestry.com was the victim of a Distributed
> Denial
> of Service Attack(DDoS) on Monday. This affected all their subsidiaries:
> Find A Grave, rootsweb, genealogy.com, fold3. The last was up and running
> the next day. Find A Grave finally was up yesterday. Rootsweb and
> genealogy.com are still down. I can get into ancestry.com through my
> library version.
>
> The same thing happened to Evernote and Feedly the previous week.
> Facebook
> was down a half hour this morning (during the night for you). Strange that
> it is happening to all these sites that are used for genealogy.
>
> Best wishes,
> Cathy
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Cooley [mailto:michael_at_newsummer.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2014 10:40 PM
> To: John Cooley Mailing List
> Subject: Many genealogy websites are down
>
>
> ancestry.com, rootsweb (worldconnect), and genealogy.com are all down. A
> "whois" suggests that they are now owned by something called MarkMonitor
> Inc.
> Does anyone know what's happening?
>
>
> -Michael
>
>
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