At the beginning of this month, genealogy monopolist Ancestry.com announced that it was discontinuing subsidiary services MyFamily, Mundia, and MyCanvas, and would be maintaining Genealogy.com ONLY in a read-only format(thus destroying the value of the Genforum message boards). They also announced that they would be discontinuing Y-DNA and mtDNA test services, and destroying all sample materials and test information they hold for these services. http://upfront.ngsgenealogy.org/... http://www.legalgenealogist.com/...
The Internet promptly exploded in outrage and fury - and some person or persons unknown apparently went a lot further than just venting. Since Monday Ancestry.com has been under DDoS (Distributed Denial of Services) attack, and is intermittently down - along with all its numerous subsidiaries (that it greedily bought up and swallowed), such as Findagrave.com, Fold3.com, etc. Some have been back up temporarily, but the "to be discontinued" services are and remain down.
The timing suggests that this is not a coincidence.
Welcome to the age of CyberWarfare, genealogists....