Category Archives: News
Say Good-bye to DNS Outages and Hello to 100% Uptime, Guaranteed.
The following press release went out this morning. Please excuse the marketing-speak. The upshot of this is "hot swappable nameservers" …brought to you by the mad scientists at easyDNS.
Backup MX increased to 10 days from 5 days
With concerns to the recent storm hitting the U.S. and Canada, we have increased the time we will hold mail on our back-up mail users to 10 days from 5 days. thank you the easyDNS team. [ UPDATE - 2012-12-17 @ 12:27pm EST ] As it has been over six weeks since Sandy, we have [...]
Resolved: easyDNS non-core services outage
We are currently experiencing an outage at one of our data centres that is affecting a number of our non-core services. Outbound mail service is impacted, as well as our support ticketing system, our public resolvers and a few other periphery services. DNS is not impacted by this event, nor is url or mail forwarding, [...]
[RESOLVED] Power Outage @ easyDNS HQ
[RESOLVED] Power has been restored to our office and the phones are online again. Our support staff is on site and answering both phones and email tickets. Once thanks for your continued support of easyDNS. Due to a power outage in the building where our offices reside , we are unable to [...]
New Mac DDNS Client for Lion
The new dynamic DNS client for Mac OSX Lion (10.6+) is now available. For those who have been having any difficulties using the earlier client (designed for versions below 10.6), this one is now formatted specifically for use with Lion. Download it from http://easyddns.org/
Post mortem of the overnight DDoS Attack
Overnight on October 24, 2011 between the hours of approximately 12:55am and 2:55am ET the NS1 and NS2 anycast constellations came under a DDoS Attack. The attack was a combined syn flood and DNS flood which impaired the following anycast constellations to varying degrees: ns1.easydns.com/remote1.easydns.com (a.k.a dns1.easydns.com) ns2.easydns.com/remote2.easydns.com (a.k.a dns2.easydns.net) The attack primarily impacted domains [...]
The new TLD Buyers-Strike Starts Now
Today is the day, .xxx sunrise begins. Here's an offer we should all refuse: Wanna protect your good name from having somebody erect a pornographic website on yourname.xxx? Then fork over $300 and you'll be "protected" against that happening for 10 years. It's called a non-adult sunrise blocking registration and the .xxx registry expects those [...]
The check's in the mail, you say?
As many of you are likely aware, the Canadian Union of Postal Workers has announced a possible strike, starting Thursday June 2nd at 11:59pm. If this occurs, then cheques sent to easyDNS through the regular post will be delayed until the strike is resolved. To avoid any possible interruption to your service due to delayed [...]
Changes to .CA domains : Meet the new hold – same as the old hold
Since last October's change in CIRA's registry system, non-renewed domains have been able to continue resolving after their expiration date, right up to the point of redemption and then deletion (presuming they remained non-renewed). This seems like a good idea at first, but what we've witnessed is that clients who don't notice the domain passing [...]
easyMail Webmail Update
Greetings all, We have just completed an update to the webmail interface at https://webmail.easymail.ca The interface has been tested and no functionality has been lost. This was more of a cosmetic update. If you do notice any loss of functionality or have any feedback please do not hesitate to contact us and let us know. [...]
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