Category Archives: Of Interest
We now accept Bitcoin as a payment method.
Last week we enabled Bitcoin as a payment method. It works a little differently than the other payment methods. Click on the Bitcoin logo, once you remit your payment to the Bitcoin address that will be displayed for your particular invoice Send the exact amount do not round up or down. Once we receive 6 [...]
Can your organization get blindsided and knocked offline by this trivial domain vulnerability?
There's an article on BI about how a disgruntled freelancer took a gym's website offline over a billing dispute. Regardless of who's right and who's wrong in this particular case, it underscores the reality that too many businesses let their core domain holdings be registered on their behalf by freelancers or employees in their own [...]
Tweaking our Interface
Just a quick heads-up : We've had some great client feedback about the interface and some requests for changes and tweaks, and we're working to make that happen. Over the next while, you'll see some changes in the UI, and we think you'll like 'em. First Up: "Confirm Changes" Screen When you edit your [...]
Rogers Ontario users – we can help (so can others)
Some of us at easyDNS are Rogers clients at home, and we noticed service was down. A bit of noodling shows that they seem to be having some issues with their DNS resolvers. We're not an ISP but we do provide free DNS resolvers to the internet for folks who want it, so if you're [...]
Does "ad retargeting" now track your real world movements?
[ This is an email I sent to the Berkman center Project VRM list a week or so ago. I am still getting the "Trump Tower" ads everywhere I go on the internet in my main web browser. ] Ad retargeting is when google (and others) can target the ads based on your prior behaviour. [...]
How to Leave easyDNS
[ If you're interested in the backstory to this post, read on, if you want to skip straight to how to get the hell out here, skip down to How To Leave easyDNS ] I have been listening to Doc Searls' The Intention Economy lately, it is an amazing book for a number of reasons [...]
Workaround for switching off of Godaddy
We tread a fine line today as we pride ourselves in not chasing ambulances here. As we've pointed out before in our "DNS and DDOS attacks: how to stay up when your DNS provider goes down", DDoS attacks suck and it's the last reason we want to gain customers. But we are experiencing higher than [...]
14 years of easyDNS and Four Core Values
easyDNS is 14 years old today! What a ride it's been. We started the day on July 31st, 1998 as 3 founders, with no dependents and 0 customers. By the end of the day we had one dependent (co-founder John Schmidt's son was born during the day), and 0 customers. And by the end of [...]
Ethics of the Fathers and our First Day in the New Office!
Today is our first day with the entire team in the new office! We're in 2 days ahead of schedule and the entire move squad, Arnon, Erol, Evan and especially Alex did amazing on logistics while Ranko and his girlfriend Maria pulled a rabbit out of a hat and configured a complete, ground up setup [...]
Don't Fall For This Domain Registration Scam
I just found the following email sent to us in our easyDNS support queue: From: Global Domains International Subject: Regarding your domain name neverloseanotherdomain.net Date: Tue, 01 May 2012 17:01:41 +0400 To: hostmaster@easydns.com From: Global Domains International Hello, I have the .COM version of your domain name neverloseanotherdomain.net for sale. Would you be interested in [...]
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