Bah humbug! Hackers spent part of Wednesday attacking Neustar, the DNS provider that helps link some of the Web’s biggest Websites to consumers, and ended up disrupting big retailers like Amazon (AMZN) and Wal-Mart (WMT) for more an hour.
In addition to the obvious pain this has on last-minute Christmas shoppers, and the e-commerce sites that rely on them, the attack had an larger effect. Many Web 2.0 companies that rely on the Amazon’s cloud computing services to power their sites were also disrupted during the attack.
That said, the incident seems resolved now, and assuming we don’t see any catastrophes in the last few hours before Christmas, e-commerce companies are going to end up doing pretty well during this holiday season. Comscore (SCOR) estimates that sales are up 4 percent this year.
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