An update on the DDOS attack that knocked out gersteinlab.org for a day http://blog.easydns.org/2013/06/04/post-mortem-of-the-june-3-4th-ddos/
Things to note: easydns is still vulnerable to this kind of attack. They are implementing design changes to mitigate future attacks.
Account of the the DNS hosts being under attack
http://blog.easydns.org/2013/06/03/ddos-in-progress-2/
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