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(Quote) sure, but you'll have to wait until April of 2010, assuming they don't renew their ownership. It's redirected, via DNS records, back to the Registry co. (GoDaddy). Removing their custom DNS pointers will direct any name based flooding back to a company capable of not only handling the volume, but of tracking, and probably prosecuting those behind it. Flooding is a very ineffective tactic, usually, and typically easily throttled down, or even halted altogether. I have seen evidence of au…

(Quote) SYN flooding is one variant. It is also one of the easiest to defeat. Flooding does not mean SYN floods. It can be ping, malformed packets, port-specific, or even application specific. In all cases (these and more), flooding is referring to exceptionally large counts of whatever is being sent. A SYN flood can be stopped VERY efficiently, from layer 4 on up, or by simple use of Access Control Lists, firewall rules, or an active IDS system. TLR was not likely a victim of SYN flooding. I'd…