[krelian]

The target was one registrar and the disruption wasn't anything that's going to be talked bout tomorrow morning. Fairly lame for a sophisticated false flag operation.

[jnbiche]

No, the attack target was almost certainly sites like the NY Times and Twitter. The attack vector was the domain registrar you refer to. It seems very unlikely that the target was Melbourne IT per se. You see how many of us hadn't even heard of them -- hardly a high-impact target.

[Helianthus]

Another way of looking at it: target one decently sized registrar and you'll get a handful of important sites. This isn't big news.