Pay-per-click DDoS attacks
p2pnet.net News:- A new front has opened in the battle between e-commerce sites and DDoS attackers.
“Domain pay-per-click advertising services have come under siege from digital attackers, with distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks disrupting advertising on hundreds of thousands of parked domains,” says Netcraft. “The attacks in the past week have targeted Sedo and ParkingSite, two of the largest domain monetization services.”
Sites such as these put pay-per-click ads on parked domains, “optimize the sites to attract traffic, and split the resulting ad revenue with the domain owner,” says Netcraft. “Sedo, which hosts more than 235,000 domains at 1&1 Internet, was first hit on Aug. 21.”
However, the newer ParkingSite, affiliated with the DNForum.com, began experiencing problems on August 24 and said it changed servers to Interland to deflect the attacks.
“Both services say they have issued credits to customers to compensate them for service interruptions,” adds the story.
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See:-
Netcraft – DDoS Attacks Target Domain Advertising Services, August 29, 2005
