Today, GoDaddy has been hacked.

Thousands and perhaps millions of websites were unreachable. Because they were hosted on GoDaddy’s servers, or because their DNS servers were hosted there. The now-epic tweet announced

Status Alert: Hey, all. We’re aware of the trouble people are having with our site. We’re working on it.

— Go Daddy (@GoDaddy) September 10, 2012

It was my case: my business had its domain name bought and registered somewhere else, but we thought that depending on the world’s largest domain provider for our DNS servers was not a bad thing. I was wrong: we never should depend on only one provider, when it’s for business use.

Tomorrow, I’ll fix that dependency. But for you, impatient GoDaddy clients, here is exactly what I am going to do.

The following instructions suppose that your DNS are currently hosted on GoDaddy’s servers.

SignUp to Dyn.com

Surf to http://dyn.com/dns/secondary-dns/ and click on the « Protect Yourself » button.

Then, input your domain name (or names), and make sure you check « Secondary DNS » and « None, keep in other provider account » and « I already have mail hosting ».

Then, the service is going to ask the IP for the master DNS service. If you use GoDaddy’s service, input 97.74.107.15

At GoDaddy, sign-up for Premium DNS service for your domain.

Then, in the DNS Manager (https://dns.godaddy.com/), click on « Advanced Settings » below your domain name.

On the next screen, on the Secondary DNS tab, click « Enable », and input the DYN DNS Slaves IPS which are:

Finally, log into your domain registrar and add new NS records for your domain. If you used Dyn DNS service, they are