Yeah, it's a big f'n "hugemanatee" all right.
You know how many people are losing a lot of money right now because of this?
sorry for being too flippant about the scenario,, I hear ya on the economic impact, Sounds like thousands of sites affected, I bet they double triple check their procedures for maintaining network integrity in more after this .. when DNS crashes, Life is bad .
I used to do ‘mission critical’ support for callcenters .. when the calls don’t flow.. series kaching damage happens..