Monthly Archives: June, 2006
SPF checks now in beta for email forwarding and spooling
We are now enabling Sender Policy Framework (SPF) checking for email destined to our members' mail forwarding or backup smtp spooling domains. If the SPF validation equates to hardfail for a domain with SPF validation enabled, our mail servers will reject the inbound message, all other outcomes will be prepended into an additional SPF-Received: header [...]
Want to reduce email spam to your mail server? Stop using backup spooling
It is with regret that we have come to the following conclusion, but here it is: Offsite backup SMTP spoolers and backup mail exchangers have become worse than useless The problem is spam and the software that delivers it exploiting the weak authentication schemes inherent in the SMTP protocol itself. It used to be an [...]
Xe.com – "World's Favorite Currency FX Site"
XE.com is a site I was using for years every time I needed to do a quick currency conversion before I realized they were a member. Nice easy and quick interface which allows me to quickly see the direction of the market across all the major currencies. They also provide data feeds via XML and [...]
usable.ca
I'm always doing whois lookups all day long for various reasons. Today the concept of "usability" struct me as I was previewing YASBS (Yet Another Social Bookmarking Site) and on a whim (many of the whois lookups I conduct are, in fact, whimsical) I looked up usable.ca and got that warm fuzzy feeling I experience [...]
Who uses easyDNS?
This was an idea we had back at the beginning, a kind of take off on "whois" to show "Who Uses" easyDNS. Only problem at the time was: we didn't have any customers yet. So with regular frequency, a lot of high-end, relevant, fun or otherwise interesting websites that use us as a registrar or [...]
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