In a , secretive hacking group Anonymous has taken credit for the outage, claiming the move is a reaction to the company's support of the U.S. government's efforts "to censor and control the Internet," through its support of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).

GoDaddy has on Twitter, but has not yet given a reason for the outage.

"Status Alert: Hey, all. We're aware of the trouble people are having with our site. We're working on it," the alert stated.

Users started noticing the troubles . Customers with GoDaddy-hosted email accounts and websites noticed the outage, as did at least some users who had registered their domain names with GoDaddy, even though their sites are actually hosted elsewhere. When pinged, websites registered with GoDaddy receive only a "ping request could not find host," message. The GoDaddy.com site itself went offline.

The reaction across the Internet has been . "Hi @godaddy. Like everybody else hosted by you, our website is down. Please fix now thanksabunch bye," from CouponPuppet.com read.