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Re:DDOS on Namecheap Free DNS and Default DNS V2 by ted0 on Thursday February 20, 2014 @12:24PM (#7272123)
Good point. The status page is on another cloud but since this is a DNS issue, the subdomain is down. In the future, we'll investigate running this page on a secondary DNS.
Re:DDOS on Namecheap Free DNS and Default DNS V2 by jik on Thursday February 20, 2014 @12:30PM (#7272179)
According to whois for namecheap.com, the DNS for that domain is hosted on dynect.net, and "host status.namecheap.com" resolves just fine (to 204.232.212.56), so it does not appear to be a DNS issue that is preventing your status page from working.
Re:DDOS on Namecheap Free DNS and Default DNS V2 by ted0 on Thursday February 20, 2014 @12:40PM (#7272262)
I stand corrected. It's on Rackspace, which apparently is also experiencing issues.
Re:DDOS on Namecheap Free DNS and Default DNS V2 by ted0 on Thursday February 20, 2014 @01:46PM (#7272730)
Rackspace helped us get our status page back online: http://status.namecheap.com/
Re:DDOS on Namecheap Free DNS and Default DNS V2 by duhorg on Thursday February 20, 2014 @11:53PM (#7275515)
Perhaps also investigate allowing customers to slave their own secondary DNS, too? (That is, allow AXFRs.)

This has been a feature requested for, as far as I can tell from the support forums, four years now. It should be possible to make this allowed/disallowed per-zone, and as far as I'm concerned, I don't care who is able to download my tiny zone file. It would allow me to add more diversified DNS servers in the face of things like a DoS against Namecheap.

Re:DDOS on Namecheap Free DNS and Default DNS V2 by irontoby on Thursday February 20, 2014 @12:54PM (#7272370)
Posting up-to-the-minute updates on Twitter is also a good idea. Lots of tweets come back from a search for "Namecheap" & you want to be sure you're a part of that conversation!
Re:DDOS on Namecheap Free DNS and Default DNS V2 by Jailout2000 on Thursday February 20, 2014 @01:23PM (#7272589)
They've been posting updates 30 minutes before your post buddy, and still are now. https://twitter.com/Namecheap
Re:DDOS on Namecheap Free DNS and Default DNS V2 by ted0 on Thursday February 20, 2014 @01:25PM (#7272606)
Yes, we are actively posting updates on Twitter.