VeriSign manage .com so they are a supplier. The availability of DNS depends on 'competitors' working with each other. The bigger DNS hosts all have backup servers with each other.

So the headline is a bit misleading and not really the full story.

This isn't unusual, amazon.com uses a combination of UltraDNS and Dyn, not their own AWS Route53 DNS service.

Could someone explain to me why the majority of startups seems to use GoDaddy? Their user-interface is unintuitive and ugly and there are plenty of other good alternatives. This doesn't mean that you shouldn't use GoDaddy, but why does a mediocre-at-best service have such a high market-share?

I wouldn't consider VeriSign and GoDaddy competitors. Verisign is a domain registry, whereas GoDaddy is a domain registrar.

VeriSign also offers large network availability services for much larger clientèle. While GoDaddy offers web hosting and web services for smaller businesses.

Horrible reporting: This article leads people to believe Godaddy moved all of their customers DNS over to Verisign.

All Godaddy did was temporarily move their single godaddy.com DNS to verisign so they could display a 'we are working on it' message to visitors during the attack.

In other news, Ferrari buys Yugo saying we need an entry-level model for our price-sensitive customers.

It's interesting that I don't have a good impression of GoDaddy or Verisign. One provides sleazy marketing for a substandard product on the cheap, and the other extorts vast sums of money just to provide a guarantee of identity.

I'd be happy to pay a reasonable fee for both to get good customer service, but I'm guessing there's collusion between the certificate providers to keep prices high.

Good luck to both of them.

Tomorrow's news: "VeriSign's DNS is down."

Isn't this the definition of counterparty risk?

What happened with the big GoDaddy thread?!

well i moved to namecheap after i heard godaddy help crafting the SOPA bill. I guess they deserved it

AND NOTHING OF VALUE WAS LOST