ISPs, hosting companies, domain registrars, and others are asking big questions about the CO.ZA attack

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Big questions after attack on CO.ZA

Internet service providers, hosting companies, domain registrars, and other industry stakeholders are asking questions after the ZA Registry Consortium (ZARC) announced that a cyberattack caused an outage that impacted CO.ZA domains.

ZARC executive for registry operations Jerry Maleka told MyBroadband that South Africa's country code top-level domain (ccTLD) — specifically secondary domains under their administration — were under a denial of service attack.

 

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In a notice sent to stakeholders on Thursday evening, ZARC stopped short of confirming that it suffered a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS).

Instead, it described the event as “extraordinary system load that effectively caused a denial-of-service”, which automatically triggered its DDoS protection mechanisms.

“Over the past few days, the .ZA namespace experienced extremely high traffic loads on its nameservers, impacting some of its users,” ZARC stated.

“This surge in traffic triggered our DDoS protection procedures, which, as part of the design, temporarily restricted some traffic to maintain overall system stability,” it added.

So, just more Africa being Africa. The rest is re who is throwing mud at who.