[easyDNS did not terminate wikileaks DNS, that was everyDNS. See this ] (Background: as you may or may not be aware, earlier in the year the US Department of Homeland Security began seizing domain names of various filesharing websites. Suddenly the agency tasked with protecting the United States from further terrorist attacks was now seizing […]
Archives for November 2010
Web Applications Developer
We’re looking for a web applications developer. If you or somebody you know is interested, please have a look at the job description. This is for our office here in Toronto, however we are not opposed to remote work for the right candidate. Such a person would have to have a proven track record of […]
Network issue – [resolved]
We recently experienced a network issue with one of our upstream providers at one of our co-location facilities. This issue was limited to just under an hour, during which time our sysAdmins worked with our upstream provider to determine the cause, and implement a fix. All affected systems are currently accessible and operating normally. During […]
The Domainer Life Comix: Episode #1 – The “Domain Parked” Page
What is your registrar doing with your parked domains? Well if we’re your registrar, we’re just parking them. Optionally, we enable you to customize your parked pages in a variety of handy ways. But if we’re not your registrar, who knows? Most other registrars monetize their own customers’ parked domains by running pay-per-click ads on […]
Email relay delays – [resolved]
First off, for more information about what greylisting is, please go to the following URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greylisting Today we experienced an issue with the greylisting service we have implemented upon our mailservers. Email that was being relayed to our mail forwarding servers was being deferred as the greylisting service was temporarily not accepting new email. As […]
Warning: Unsolicited phone calls pretending to be "tech support"
We got this by way of William Porquet, reposted with permission as we think some of our users should be aware of this. It looks like an overseas boiler room operation is targeting users, the call reported below was received in Toronto, Canada: The other day one of my older friends in Toronto received a […]