Oh, hopefully things will get better soon. It might have been an attack on the coin directly (which I doubt), but it was more likely because of this huge DDOS. I don't even know how someone managed to pull this off.
Yea thanks for this info, im not sure how I missed this. Pretty damn amazing and slightly scary.
Maybe a good incentive to use namecoin haha.
Also similar foul tactics are being used by the likes of Paypal/Visa/Mastercard and so on versus Bitcoin. They can't keep up with the promising features.