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Internal technical snags caused several websites hosted by GoDaddy to go offline. It was not caused by any external attack, the firm has said. The company, one of the world's biggest domain registrars and web hosts, suffered intermittent faults for about six hours on Monday. Early reports suggested a member of the hacking collective Anonymous had been behind the down time. But the company blamed a "series of internal network events". "At no time was any customer data at risk or were any of our systems compromised," the BBC quoted the site's chief executive Scott Wagner, as saying in a press release. "The service outage was not caused by external influences. It was not a 'hack' and it was not a denial of service attack. We have determined the service outage was due to a series of internal network events that corrupted router data tables," he added. Initially, a tweeter claiming to be the "security leader" of the loosely organised hacking collective Anonymous, said they were behind the attack. "Once the issues were identified, we took corrective actions to restore services for our customers and GoDaddy.com. We have implemented measures to prevent this from occurring again," Wagner said.

GoDaddy websites shutdown due to internal problem, says firm