Category Archives: Of Interest
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 [...]
02 August 2010 Telephone Support Hours
easyDNS observes the Civic Holiday. It's called Simcoe Day in Toronto. Our telephone support hours are from 9am to 5pm Eastern. You can always email us for help at support@easydns.com . Thank you, The easyDNS Support Team
Interesting Internet Storm Center post
Greetings, I came across an interesting (and alarming) post at the Internet Storm Center, and I am passing it along. If you, too, are a Systems Administrator, or a person who is responsible for mail systems take extra note. If you're not; look out for the following subject lines as they might be bogus. ARTICLE [...]
When RBLs go bad: blackholes.uceb.org is now wildcarded
blackholes.uceb.org was an antispam RBL that shut down in 2008, but as with all RBLs, they tend to find their way into mail server configs and then ossify there. It looks like whoever ran uceb.org decided that two years was enough and to let the domain lapse. Yesterday, the domain's registrar put the domain in [...]
easyURL.net now CLOSED to general public
Our URL shortening service easyURL.net is now CLOSED to the general public. Only easyDNS members in good standing with at least one active domain in their account may use this service. To enable your access log into your easyDNS account and under your utilities module click on enable easyURL.net and then you're done. Happy shortening. [...]
easyURL.net adds useless "easyFrame" to redirects.
Feeling left out of the web 2.0 "URL Shortener" hysteria, we've added a mostly useless "easyFrame"(tm) to the easyURL.net redirect service. The culmination of nearly two night's worth of programming in front of the TV, and nearing 100 lines of PHP code, the easyFrame(tm) enables people to further perpetuate it's marginal functionality via other social [...]
Do you really need to register your name under .tel?
We've turned up .tel registrations now that they've gone realtime and the initial registry implosion has stabilized. You may have noticed a distinct lack of urgency from us to light a fire under your keester to go register your name under .tel right now before somebody else takes it. As we outlined previously, we find [...]
New easyDNS Member feedback survey
Many of you may not know that we have an ongoing member feedback survey where we ask for your thoughts and impressions of using easyDNS. We try to make it as unobtrusive as possible, and for each respondent we make a $5 donation to a charity of your choosing (World Wildlife Fund, Children's Wish Fund [...]
Why we do not offer Whois masking at easyDNS
We get asked this a alot: Why do you guys not offer whois masking or whois contact privacy? The brief background on this is: whenever you register a domain name, your contact details are published in a publicly visible database called "whois", where your contact details are instantly harvested by spambots and marketers who proceed [...]