Monthly Archives: June, 2010
.COM and .NET wholesale price goes up tomorrow, easyDNS doesn't.
Verisign is increasing the wholesale cost of .COM and .NET domains by 48 cents for .COM domains and 42 cents for .NET. easyDNS will absorbing the additional wholesale costs into existing pricing.
HST Comes into effect tomorrow in Canada
Starting July 1st we will be replacing the current GST with the government mandated HST for the following provinces at the following rates: Ontario: 13% British Columbia 12% Nova Scotia 15% Newfoundland 13% New Brunswick 13% Quebec 12.875% The way our systems will calculate this is by looking at the value of the "province" field [...]
STATUS :: Verizon blocking some client mail
Verizon appears to be blocking some forwarded mail for clients who are using the new interface. We have established a work-around to keep mail flowing smoothly, but some users with mail being directed to Verizon addresses may have experienced mail delays before this was determined, and may see some lag in mail being delivered via [...]
Registrations online
The issues causing problems with both whois and com/net/org/info and biz domains was fixed late Sunday afternoon. If you have any problems with your domain as a result of this please do not hesitate to contact support. As always, thanks for the continued support of easyDNS (and apologies for the delayed update).
Registrations offline
Our domain registration provider is currently experiencing technical issues. At this moment we are unable to register or update com/net/org/info and biz domains. We've opened a ticket with our provider to see what is causing this and hope to have it resolved shortly. This is also the same issue afftecing whois lookups. As more info [...]
easywhois issues.
We are currently experiencing issues with easywhois being able to connect to remote whois servers to retrieve domain whois information. Our operations team are working on the problem.
Dynamic DNS trouble with "ez-dyndns", June 11th 2010
Greetings, Clients using "ez-ipupdate" to update their dynamic DNS settings may have noticed erratic updates or lack of updates during the day and evening today. A dynamic DNS process that was supposed to passthru requests for domains on the new system misfired and ended up trying to passthru some requests for domains which were still on [...]
Greylisting control now available
Like most ISPs, we've been employing the tactic of greylisting to cut down on the amount of spam and viruses we get and forward to our customer email addresses via their mailmaps or backup mail spools.
retail interface site maintenance: Wednesday June 9th at 10:00pm EST
The EasyDNS systems admin team will be conducting some maintenance on the retail interface on Wednesday June 9th at 10:00pm EST. The downtime should last between 20 minutes and one hour, ending at approximately 11:00pm EST the same day. The following sites will be impacted; http://members.easydns.com https://members.easydns.com
Instant DNS Activation & force 301 headers on URL forwarding
Following on the heels of our earlier unveiling of tweet2txt, I thought I'd mention 2 new features of the new platform that I think our members will agree are long welcome additions: Instant DNS activation for new domains and optional 301 Redirects for URL forwarding.