Namecheap says it took three hours to contain the attack. The company sells domain names, SSL certificates, Web hosting and other related services. The attack centered on its Free DNS and Default v2 nameservers, which find an IP address for a domain name so a website can be called into a browser. Domain resolving, domain host record updates and URL and email forwarding were affected. By Thursday afternoon, 99 percent of its services were running again, the company said. The company said it was a “new type of attack””]
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