Internet hacking group Anonymous has been busy lately. After taking credit for a few high-profile hacking events last week, the hackers took down domain name server GoDaddy for several hours in the afternoon on September 10.

While most people know GoDaddy for the overtly sexual ads that it typically runs during the superbowl, the business actually sells domain names. Thousands of websites on the internet purchased their URLs on GoDaddy, and experienced an outage while their server was forced offline by Anonymous.

GoDaddy was able to restore service to most of its clients by late yesterday evening.

It wasn't long after GoDaddy and the websites it hosts went down that Anonymous took credit for the derailing via the Twitter account @AnonymousOwn3r.

The person controlling this Twitter handle wanted everyone to make no mistakes as to where the attack on the site was coming from, writing, "[T]he attack it's coming only from me."

According to the group, GoDaddy was made a target because the website spoke out in favor of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA), which would have enforced censorship in an attempt to cut down on copyright infringement on the internet. Ultimately, neither bill was passed.

This comes just a few days after the group AntiSec, which is associated with Anonymous, claimed to have stolen 14 million Apple UDIDs from an FBI computer. Since then, the server company BlueToad has announced that the data came from its servers, and closed the security vulnerability.

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