Ah that's what it was
I had a friendly email from Google this morning saying they hadn't been able to index my site.
A number of websites hosted by GoDaddy were blasted offline this week in a distributed denial-of-service attack. The company's servers in Europe struggled under the volley on Monday afternoon and continued to suffer until yesterday evening after GoDaddy installed network traffic filters to block the assaults. UK customers …
GoDaddy is one of the WORST companies to do business with! They are con-artist. They steal domains and offer to sell them back to you at rip-off prices.
A client of mine, who was hosted/reg by another very STUPID company with his .COM address waited on purpose for it to expire so he could get control of his domain and put it elsewhere (cough *Joker*) because over the course of many years, his email address had died (company changed names) and he lost his PW info. Couldn't fax or email proof of ownership since Joker.net is not an english speaking company.
So someone else set up this client of mine to use GoDaddy with the .net. This name of this domain is attached to a family name that isn't common attached to a general word. There is no other company in the USA that could make use of the domain. But with GoDaddy, they snapped up the .com and now want $9,000 USD for the domain!?!
Its not something simple like abc / santa / bard etc... its a tiny site with 5 pages that gets little business.
GoDaddy = CRIMINALS!
From now on we may assume that Godaddy's service is deteriorating. Abnormal upselling, stealing domain names and now repeatedly not taking the right security measures to protect their web servers. Godaddy really sucks more and more than ever before. http://usa.weloveourhost.com/godaddy.html offers you another horror story. Happy reading!