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CO.ZA under attack

The infrastructure for South Africa's .ZA domain names has been under attack for almost a week. - mybroadband.co.za

South Africa's country code top-level domain (ccTLD), .ZA, is facing a denial of service attack, ZA Registry Consortium executive for registry operation Jerry Maleka has told MyBroadband. MyBroadband was contacted by several Internet and hosting providers on Thursday who said they were seeing errors when trying to resolve CO.

ZA domains. This was after several PretoriaFM listeners in Europe reported on Saturday that they were struggling to access the radio station's online live stream. People in Poland, Switzerland, Germany, and the United States reported intermittent problems getting to South African websites using CO.

ZA domains. At our request, the users tested sites like Takealot.com (working), MTN.

co.za (error), MTN.com (working), Vodacom.

co.za (error), and Vodacom.com (working).

While the problems on Saturday appeared to resolve on their own, they cropped up again on...

Jan Vermeulen.