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Re:GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down by soult on Monday September 10, 2012 @03:25PM (#4501677)
Godaddy tries to upsell their "premium" DNS service by blocking high-frequency DNS requests on their non-premium authoritive servers.[1][2]

I would call that a technical issue, even though it probably only affects web crawlers.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2964084 2: http://rscott.org/dns/GoDaddy_Selective_DNS_Blackouts.htm

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Re:GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down by DASD on Monday September 10, 2012 @04:14PM (#4501976)
To expand on web crawlers, monitoring/uptime services are affected as well.
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