As of tonight you may notice when you log into your member control panel a new item beside each of your domain names called “query usage”. This links you to a monthly histogram depicting the DNS query counts for the domain. Right now we are just compiling aggregate lookups across all RR types and it […]
What's New
easyDNS soft launches DNSresolvers.com
With the ramifications of the DNS cache poisoning bug beginning to sink in and the first exploit code being published today, we are anticipating an accelerating number of queries from our members about this and what they can do to ensure their own DNS caching resolvers are safe to use. We can tell you about […]
easySPF: An SPF Wizard
We’ve had customers asking us for a simple SPF wizard to help generate Sender Policy Framework (SPF) data. There are a few out there, but we have set up one at wizard.easySPF.com or spfwizard.com. As we iron out any usability bugs we will roll out some integration hooks to make it easier to pull the […]
.CA registration only service rolled out at $19
Happy Victoria Day weekend, eh? We’re marking the holiday by filling a gap in our service offering. When .CA rolled out, we wanted to capitalize on our position as a premiere DNS provider by bundling our world class DNS hosting with our newfound status as a Registrar (this was very new to us at the […]
We are now tracking the Spamhaus PBL
We are now tracking the Spamhaus The Policy Block list. This list allows service providers to define blocks of IP addresses where e-mail should not originate from. This service should reduce spam and load on our mail systems. From the summary at Spamhaus: The Spamhaus PBL is a DNSBL database of end-user IP address ranges […]
Greylisting for email forwarded to Hotmail and MSN
Over the last few months, there has been a steady increase in spam and virus emails. Due to the nature of our mail forwarding service, this sometimes leads to ISPs and free email services being forwarded a large number of “junk” email. In the past, easyDNS has always strived to limit the amount of filtering […]