NameDrive DDOS Attack

[NameDriver]

On the losses front, I might add their losses in there too. The size of this attack suggests that it could be costing them up to $XXXX an hour just to keep this going! That could be up to 100K they've spent on bringing ND down. Horrible, when you think about what lengths some people will go to...

Ed

 

[NameDriver]

Hello everyone,

I'm not going to get euphoric, but the parking is up and running fast. This was our first priority. The homepage will follow suit.

Thank you all so much for your patience and support. We will certainly reward you and make sure that you don't lose any earnings as a result of this.
I have a funny feeling that, once your compensation has been done, the last 26 hours may be the highest earning 26 hours of the week for you, if you know what I mean .
We don't want you to bear the brunt of this attack.

To give you an idea of what we have been up against since 15.00 GMT yesterday, in addition to the 600K domains we have parked on our system, our servers were being hit by XX,XXX false connections per second for over 24 hours. The attack is increasing as we speak and has been since it began.
We estimate that just to keep up this attack, it has cost the aggressor at least five figures and possibly six figures to initiate and sustain. This wasn't poor defenses on our part, it was the use of overwhelming force and financial resources on theirs. The mind boggles at who has the time or funds to invest in something so unnecessary.

I apologise again for the mess. Please bear with us while we get the homepage up and running today and the revenue correction done, which will take a couple of days to get right.

Ed

 

[pirpy76]

Hello everyone,

I'm not going to get euphoric, but the parking is up and running fast. This was our first priority. The homepage will follow suit.

Thank you all so much for your patience and support. We will certainly reward you and make sure that you don't lose any earnings as a result of this.
I have a funny feeling that, once your compensation has been done, the last 26 hours may be the highest earning 26 hours of the week for you, if you know what I mean .
We don't want you to bear the brunt of this attack.

To give you an idea of what we have been up against since 15.00 GMT yesterday, in addition to the 600K domains we have parked on our system, our servers were being hit by XX,XXX false connections per second for over 24 hours. The attack is increasing as we speak and has been since it began.
We estimate that just to keep up this attack, it has cost the aggressor at least five figures and possibly six figures to initiate and sustain. This wasn't poor defenses on our part, it was the use of overwhelming force and financial resources on theirs. The mind boggles at who has the time or funds to invest in something so unnecessary.

I apologise again for the mess. Please bear with us while we get the homepage up and running today and the revenue correction done, which will take a couple of days to get right.

Ed

You told parking is up, but unfortunately the domains I parked seem to be unreachable. I parked them through redirection, not changing DNS. Is this the problem?
Thanks in advance for your reply

 

[olebean]

You told parking is up, but unfortunately the domains I parked seem to be unreachable. I parked them through redirection, not changing DNS. Is this the problem?
Thanks in advance for your reply

Agreed, redirect is an issue.. I assume all redirected traffic is blocked

 

[NameDriver]

Hi guys,

As I said, not quite a reason for euphoria yet, but things are certainly getting back to normal. We will continue to compensate until everything is properly running and back to normal, so no worries if things aren't 100% yet.

Ed

 

[NameDriver]

What a day...

This isn't as much an update as a correction.
You may have noticed that parking is working fine but that the homepage is still down. This is an inconvenience we are working to resolve. However, this may take some time, so please do not be too concerned if the homepage is not reachable for a while. We will get it up again when everything has blown over and we have repelled the attack.
Thank you again for your patience and I hope you have a great weekend.

Ed

 

[pirpy76]

Ed, perhaps you should inform us that parking is working fine only for domains parked with DNS method, because many of us are using the redirection method ("www.ndparking.com/ourdomain.com") that is still down.
Do you think that this problem will be solved in few hours or we have to wait more? Thanks in advance for your reply.

We hope you'll defeat these problems soon!

 

[tifosi]

Keep at it Ed

Not the only one. Had a concerted dictionary attack on SSH and attempted exim relay.

Must be the silly season or a fresh wave of 'the dawn of the dead'

Not the best use of a friday evening

S

 

[SF]

Any updates Ed? Are you continuing to work on this, or leaving it until monday morning?

 

[retired_member16]

Ed - Do you have a Verizon ticket number for the issue?

 

[Ash]

Hi Guys,

Just to update you: Ed is getting some much deserved rest, and we're working on getting the homepage up for you guys and restore full functionality. We'll be rotating in fresh bodies on the tech side all weekend of course (you can't imagine how that looks, but I assure you, it's legal) until everything is fully resolved, and, like Ed mentioned before, everyone will be fully compensated for all downtime. Thanks again so much for everyone's understanding.

Ash
NameDrive.co.uk

 

[NameDriver]

Thanks, Ash

Just to give you an update on this. I am very sorry that the HP is not up yet. Our lead tech guy was up for 36 hours solid battling this thing. The two times he tried getting our HP back up again, the bugs were swarming all over the servers and he brought them down again. After 36 hours, he decided to go to bed so he can get things going with a clear head today.

I appreciate it is a massive inconvenience that you can't log into your account, but that will hopefully be resolved asap today.

If your parking pages aren't resolving, please contact me at [email protected] and I'll try and work out what's going on. Tech say that if you use URL forwarding, then restarting your computer and then viewing the pages may make a difference.

Just to reiterate, whether your pages are live now or not, we will make sure that you do not lose anything as a result of this attack.

Ed

 

[retired_member16]

Thats a no then.

I guess its no longer a VZB issue.

 

[NameDriver]

Hi everyone,

Everything is up and running now. We will continue to monitor as the attack has not abated, but hopefully it will be back to business as usual. As I mentioned before, please be patient while we work out the compensation for this mess. Hopefully we can get that done within the next couple of days.

Thank you all again for your patience during this unpleasant time for us.

Ed

 

[retired_member16]

Testing to see if my posts work!

 

[hitsbuilder]

Ed, is the final adjustment to the compensation done? My earnings for thursday and friday is only 40% and 60% for Saturday. It makes a big difference, that's why I have to ask. Thanks.

 

[NameDriver]

Hi guys,

The compensation will be done this week. Obviously, we want to get it right and we have a large system which needs to be compensated. We hope to have it done by Wednesday and will certainly have it done by Friday for the month's end.

Thanks for your patience and have a great week.

Ed

 

[uglygit]

Hi Ed,

Glad to see your back up and running, your techies need a pat on the back, a payrise and a big hug for all their hard work.

 

[NameDriver]

Pat on the back and hug duly given.


Ed

 

[Edwin]

Pat on the back and hug duly given.


Ed

2 out of 3 ain't bad! Congratulations on finally taming the dragon. Would be interested in any follow-up info you're able to post about exactly what happened...