In a letter sent to GoDaddy customers Wednesday, interim CEO Scott Wagner said GoDaddy owed customers "a big apology" for the service outage, which the hosting provider insists "was due to a series of internal network events that corrupted router data tables."

Mr. Wagner did take a moment to defend the company before making the big announcement:

Throughout our history, we have provided 99.999% uptime in our DNS infrastructure. This is the level of performance we expect from ourselves. Monday, we fell short of these expectations. We have learned from this event and will use it to drive improvement in our services.

As a result of this disruption, your account will be credited for the value of 1-month of service for each of your active/published sites.* This credit will be available to you for the next 7 days. Please click the button below to redeem your credit.

Mashable's Zoe Fox noted that for many GoDaddy customers, the credit doesn't actually amount to much. Ms. Fox writes that for anyone who bought a $12.99 dotcom domain name from GoDaddy, Mr. Wagner's generous offer "adds up to roughly $1."

Ms. Fox isn't giving GoDaddy due credit for its guilt-driven generosity--one free month at that rate actually adds up to $1.08. Which will totally buy you a 12-ounce soda, if it's on sale.

GoDaddy, back up and running (Screengrab)

GoDaddy has issued a statement saying the outage that took down several thousand websites for a good portion of the day on Monday was caused not by any sort of hack or Directed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, but "internal network events that corrupted router data tables." TechCrunch posted GoDaddy Interim CEO Scott Wagner's statement about the outage. Mr. Wagner acknowledged the outage and wrote:

The service outage was not caused by external influences. It was not a “hack” and it was not a denial of service attack (DDoS). We have determined the service outage was due to a series of internal network events that corrupted router data tables. Once the issues were identified, we took corrective actions to restore services for our customers and GoDaddy.com. We have implemented measures to prevent this from occurring again.

@AnonymousOwn3r, the Brazil-based hacker who claimed credit for the outage, responded via Twitter to GoDaddy's denial:

whooa @godaddy is denying that it was hacked by me! they don't wanna show their cybersecurity is badthis way they would lose customers !

— Anonymous Own3r (@AnonymousOwn3r) September 11, 2012

AnonymousOwn3r threatened in a second tweet "to bring down godaddy.com again, so this way they would admit instead of hiding the attack."

We're not popping the popcorn yet, but the hacker does claim to have the power to bring down an entire nation's Internet service, so we'll sit back and watch for falling nations.