Class action lawsuit filed over Go Daddy downtime

Lawsuit claims seeks damages for downtime on September 10. Well, that was quick. The first federal lawsuit seeking class action status has been filed against GoDaddy for its downtime on September 10 (pdf ). The outage affected GoDaddy.com and many people who used the company’s DNS and web hosting services. The suit was filed by Eric Mitchell, who runs the web site StatedIncomeIsBack.com. He claims Go Daddy failed to “satisfy its guaranteed upload (sic) times for customers’ Domain Name Service (“DNS”), web sites and email accounts…” Mitchell claims that Go Daddy violated its 99.9% uptime guarantee for hosting. The suit notes that Go Daddy’s services can only be down for 43.2 minutes in a thirty day period to meet the guarantee. He also cites the company’s 99.999% uptime guarantee for its Premium DNS Manager, a product that it’s not clear if he was using. Of course, Go Daddy...

Full article: http://domainnamewire.com/2012/09/20/class-action-lawsuit...

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