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Non-malicious DDOS attacks might be considered those where the traffic is genuine, like a normal website reaching the frontpage of reddit or hn.

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By definition, DDOS, are malicious no? Otherwise, the site is just having high traffic that it cannot handle. If my blog goes down after being on the front page of HN, is that a DDOS?

I think it's more the term "attack" that indicates maliciousness.

Getting Slashdotted or Hacker Newsed is definitely a distributed denial of service, but it's not so much an attack

By definition: "[DDos] is an attempt to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users.". When I see "DDoS" I always thought it was malicious...

I don't think it's appropriate to use the DDoS acronym when not referring to an "attack". It's non-standard and will only create confusion. Every "source" online describing a DDoS uses it explicitly to refer to an attack.

Was Service Denied? Was the cause Distributed?

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