The Internet went down yesterday, and nobody noticed

I was surprised to find that no one could access ProductWiki for about an hour yesterday at 1pm (EST/DST). I did some research and found that GoDaddy (our registrar) was having "technical difficulties". It turns out that a whole whack of websites were inaccessible for a short period yesterday. It seems likely that this was connected to the new DST time shift that had happened the night before. GoDaddy said they were ready, but it seems not.

A few things that I thought were noteworthy about the event:

• a huge portion of the Internet was down yesterday because of a single point of failure
• a ton of people submitted the story to digg, and, surprisingly, it DIDN'T make it to the front page
• GoDaddy covered it up very well; they only once, on one page, mentioned they were "having technical difficulties" without any information as to why, or when they would be coming back up
• No mention of it on Bob Parson's blog
• This event made DST 2007 more significant than Y2K (which is kinda pathetic)

How does this happen? How can, in the "new media", a company like GoDaddy get away with a blunder like this without any viral bashing? No YouTube videos. Very few blog posts. No caustic commentary on digg. Nothing.

I think this event, or non-event, might trigger a shift towards websites using other name registrars (I know I'm considering switching). It wasn't that significant in terms of downtime, but GoDaddy's response, or lack of response, is telling.

UPDATE: It wasn't related to DST after all. It looks like a good ole' DDoS was the culprit.