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Gwapo's Professional DDOS Service

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This is almost certainly a prank or a parody. DNS for ddossite.com points to IP 199.83.134.131. "whois 199.83.134.131" shows the IP is inside an IP block owned by "Incapsula Inc". Googling the company name yields http://www.incapsula.com/, which says they are a network security company and they provide DDoS protection.

Publicly offering to commit a felony for payment would be a very risky and pointless "prank", so I highly doubt it is. More likely a scam or ill-considered get-rich-quick scheme.

or an attempt to be 'viral'

I believe parody is considered protected speech. Everything on that site is so absurd (the zany video, the lists of email addresses) that I find it hard to believe a reasonable person would consider this a serious offer to DDoS somebody. The more I think about it, the more clear it is that this is part of this company's "guerilla marketing" strategy.

They are a customer of Incapsula.

Not sure if this a joke or not, but when I saw the post title I thought it was going to be a service to simulate heavy load conditions to your site, which would actaully be very useful.

I imagine that someone must be running something like that already. If not, someone should build it. Time to go google.

Out of interest: how many people here would pay for such a service?

Try https://www.blitz.io/

Looks good. I am going to signup now.

Hmm, not a great start. Service isn't sending me a confirmation email, so can't get an account.

Update if anyone ever comes across this: service support got in contact with me and got me moving. They were having a problem with their outgoing email functionality.

I was wondering the same thing too.

Do people load test on live servers?

You can test all you like on a staging environment, but until you have tested your prod you can never be 100% sure.

That said, I wasn't thinking of DOSing yourself and bringing your servers down. But I could definitely see a use for a service where it gradually increases the load till response times hit some threshold.

I didn't see where the website owner specifies that they will illegally DDoS a website. It could actually be a brilliant strategy, take a payment for DDoSaaS then after the payment has been received, ask for proof from the client that the website they have requested DDoS'ed is their own (as an analytic tool to see how your website would perform under attack perhaps). If they can't provide the proof, the site owner is not allowed to perform the DDoS, with no need to refund the money, as anyone complaining about failure to furnish advertised service would be incriminating themselves.

EDIT: I completely failed to watch the video. It is pretty specific, hopefully a joke. Perhaps the real business model here is (since it says it only accepts serious requests from businesses) to pivot to Blackmail-as-a-service (BmaaS?)

I fail to see why HN'ers don't see this as a joke.

If this is serious (it doesn't look serious) it's going to get shut down very fast. For any actual "professional DDoS" services you'd need to find them via .onion sites (think Silkroad, etc).

IANAL, but isn't it a felony to DDoS a property you don't own? This guy is effectively claiming he'll perform federal offenses for $5/hour by DDoSing a competitor's website, right?

I can't tell if he's serious. What makes anyone think this is real? Serious question.

This is kind of disappointing and I hope it won't get traction.

out of the topic, i bet this guys a Filipino. Gwapo means handsome or good looking in the local dialect

Loan word from Spanish (guapo).

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