Dive summary:

• Millions of websites hosted by GoDaddy were down for much of the business day yesterday, after an apparent attack on their DNS servers.
• Anonymous member known as AnonymousOwn3r took responsibility for the attack.  In a tweet littered with typos and grammatical errors, he said, "I'm taking godaddy down bacause well i'd like to test how the cyber security is safe and for more reasons that i can not talk now."
• Late in the day, GoDaddy moved its DNS to competitor Verisign.  It provided Verisign with some invaluable PR, so it must have been a tough pill to swallow for GoDaddy.
• Danica Patrick had no comment.

From the article:

According to many customers, sites hosted by major web host and domain registrar GoDaddy are down. According to the official GoDaddy Twitter account the company is aware of the issue and is working to resolve it. Update: customers are complaining that GoDaddy hosted e-mail accounts are down as well, along with GoDaddy phone service and all sites using GoDaddy’s DNS service. ...