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.CO domains in, .TEL domains are out.
As is customary here when it comes to new top-level domain rollouts, we've added support for .CO domains now that the registry has launched real-time live registrations. As we mentioned in previous posts, we are recommending that if you operate a serious net presence under .COM, you should if you can pickup the corresponding .CO [...]
Zak Muscovitch for CIRA Board
It's that time of year again when CIRA holds it's elections for seats on the Board. As I never tire of relating: when I was on the CIRA Board, I got the opportunity to travel across the country and meet .CA domain holders from all walks of life. When the Board held open forums in [...]
DOS Attacks and DNS: How to Stay Up If Your DNS Provider goes DOWN
Greetings from St. Lucia, where I'm here with the family for an end-of-summer vacation. I wanted to post about this topic before I left but I didn't get to it, but this article over at CircleID reminded me. The article discusses the ramifications and effects of the large, possibly record-setting DOS attack against DNSMadeEasy last [...]
July 4 DNS Stats are wrong. Like really way off wrong.
Before anybody has a heart attack, please be advised that the July 4 DNS counts are spectacularly incorrect. We're looking at it now. Sorry for any panic attacks.
.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 [...]
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.
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.
tweet2txt? tweet2dns? ok, why not….
Not even sure why we did this other than "because we could", but try this: Setup a txt record in your domain like this: host IN TXT ""v=twitterstatus1 txthost twitterid" And basically what happens is the last tweet from "twitterid" will be placed into the contents of a TXT record for "txthost" under your domain [...]
DNS Usage Pricing: The final word.
Ok, we've done a lot of thinking about the DNS overage pricing, which is still forthcoming. So far we haven't turned up billing on the heavy usage customers. We've had a lot of great feedback, overall people are pretty understanding. After taking the feedback into account and looking at our customer usage patterns, we are [...]