Monday morning, mega-domain registrar and web hosting company GoDaddy went dark. Hacker group Anonymous claimed credit for the attack, but not collectively. The "security leader" at Anonymous (Twitter user name @AnonymousOwn3r) took sole responsibility.
Anonymous Federation (@AnonFederation) tweeted, "Please redirect your #godaddy hate to @AnonymousOwn3r He is the 'leader' of #Anonymous and a #faggot. #derp Have #lulz with that."
Sites hosted by GoDaddy weren't the only target: Any domain registered with the site that uses name servers or DNS records also went down. This included several local business owners. Leslie Joy Ickowitz, publisher and creative director of Vertical Tampa Bay, found out what was going on with GoDaddy through a friend's Facebook post. She soon learned that her site, VerticalTampaBay.com, had been affected.