UPDATED: GoDaddy Claims They Were Not Attacked On Monday As Many Music Sites Suffered Outages

(UPDATE 2) Scott Wagner, GoDaddy's interim CEO, said Tuesday that failures forcing several million web sites offline, including many artist and music sites, were caused by an internal network error, “not a hack” as an Anonymous associate had claimed.

As of Tuesday morning, most sites on GoDaddy had been restored. But the popular domain registrar and web hosting company experienced major outages Monday, taking millions of sites offline. A member of Anonymous known as AnonymousOwn3r claimed responsibility, saying it was not an official Anonymous collective action. Dozens of artist and music sites responded to a Monday afternoon "Are you down" shout-out by @hypebot on Twitter, reporting that they too were offline.

 
The outage happened "…just as I was listening to the new @bandofhorses album" on the band's web site, tweeted @reaganhines. As of late in the afternoon Monday, some GoDaddy powered sites were back up, while others still appeared offline.

GoDaddy has been a hacker target since it publicly supported federal anti-piracy legislation dubbed the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA.  Some opponents beleived the bill would hurt innovation and removed domains from GoDaddy. "By using/supporting GoDaddy, you are supporting censorship of the Internet," read a tweet from an Anonymous affiliated account on Monday.

Let us know if your site was affected by the outage.