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Yep, I just got whacked by this at https://www.photographer.io (www is working at least). Guess I've learnt my lesson about using the root domain.

However I'm glad this happened whilst I was still beta testing! My CloudFront stack was pointing at the root domain, which was stupid. Fixed that now.

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We were not so lucky.

We have a URL forwarding set to www that points to out root domain so we are completely down.

I've just switched over to Route 53 as this attack is still ongoing. Alas the DNS is one of the last things you think about when building an app, you just assume that it's going to work and entirely forget it exists while it is working :\

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