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		<title>mailout.easydns.com aka easymail being blocked by Hotmail at the moment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Update: We have a workaround in place so mail will be flowing properly to Hotmail going forward. &#8211;Simon Greetings, The outbound mail service for &#034;legacy&#034; retail users (those using the old interface and system) is currently being blocked by Hotmail. If you&#039;re trying to e-mail someone at Hotmail you&#039;ve probably noticed it. We&#039;re taking a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.easydns.org/2010/09/05/mailout-easydns-com-aka-easymail-being-blocked-by-hotmail-at-the-moment/</link>
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		<title>mailout.easydns.com update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Greetings users, As of late our mailout.easydns.com service has experienced some outages and downtime. We&#039;ve discovered the problem to be with the hardware we were using. To alleviate this we&#039;ve deployed a new machine this morning to handle the mailout.easydns.com duties. Over the coming days we will also be adding more machines to handle the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.easydns.org/2010/09/02/mailout-easydns-com-update-2/</link>
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		<title>mailout.easydns.com upgrades this evening.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Greetings, If you&#039;re a regular user of our easySMTP service at &#034;mailout.easydns.com&#034; you&#039;ve probably noticed that it&#039;s been sketchy for the last couple of days, usually during peak times in the middle of the day! The first part of the problem we&#039;ve identified; we have had a couple of power users inadvertently pound our servers. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.easydns.org/2010/09/01/mailout-easydns-com-upgrades-this-evening/</link>
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		<title>.CO domains in, .TEL domains are out.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As is customary here when it comes to new top-level domain rollouts, we&#039;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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.easydns.org/2010/08/31/co-domains-in-tel-domains-are-out/</link>
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		<title>Zak Muscovitch for CIRA Board</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#039;s that time of year again when CIRA holds it&#039;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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.easydns.org/2010/08/31/zak-muscovitch-for-cira-board/</link>
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		<title>mailout.easydns.com blip</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Greetings, We had a brief blip on the outbound mail system for &#034;legacy&#034; retail users at the address mailout.easydns.com. We have restarted the responsible service and mail should be flowing again without issue. Thanks for your patience. [UPDATE - September 1 @ 1:40pm] – This issue has been resolved. More details about what steps are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.easydns.org/2010/08/27/mailout-easydns-com-blip/</link>
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		<title>&quot;Greylisting&quot; on the new mail system</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Greetings, The &#034;Greylisting&#034; service on the new mail system has been disabled for the moment as we troubleshoot some odd results we have been getting with it. Customers should expect a little bit more spam, but we hope to have the weirdness ironed out by this weekend. [UPDATE - September 1 @ 1:39pm] – Greylisting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.easydns.org/2010/08/20/greylisting-on-the-new-mail-system/</link>
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		<title>DOS Attacks and DNS: How to Stay Up If Your DNS Provider goes DOWN</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Greetings from St. Lucia, where I&#039;m here with the family for an end-of-summer vacation. I wanted to post about this topic before I left but I didn&#039;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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.easydns.org/2010/08/19/dos-attacks-and-dns-how-to-stay-up-if-your-dns-provider-goes-down/</link>
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		<title>Database maintenance: Friday August 13th at 1:00am EST</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The easyDNS systems admin team will be conducting some database maintenance on Friday August 13th at 1:00am EST. The downtime should last between 30 minutes to 1 hour, ending at approximately 2:00am EST the same day at the latest. During this time, access to the new easyDNS interface (Caprica) will be disabled. The old easyDNS interface [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.easydns.org/2010/08/11/database-maintenance-friday-august-13th-at-100am-est/</link>
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		<title>02 August 2010 Telephone Support Hours</title>
		<description><![CDATA[easyDNS observes the Civic Holiday. It&#039;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]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.easydns.org/2010/08/01/02-august-2010-telephone-support-hours/</link>
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