It looks like hackers have taken down Godaddy and many of its hosted sites!
[url=“GoDaddy Outage Takes Down Millions Of Sites, Anonymous Member Claims Responsibility • TechCrunch”]http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/10/godaddy-outage-takes-down-millions-of-sites/[/url]
Chris
Quite deserving for their SOPA support earlier in the year, that's a personal stance obviously.
Anyone looking for a backup plan for DNS should look at Amazon Route 53
Amazon Route 53 | DNS Service | AWS
Fairly cheap too.