We experienced a service disruption this morning affecting about 11% of our users today. A single component experienced an unexpected failure, which temporarily prevented affected users from authenticating their email box for a period of several hours, roughly between 2:00am and 8:00am EDT. The good news: No messages were lost, corrupted, or bounced. Everything that […]
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Maintenance window – 22 JULY 2026 – Completed
On Wednesday, 22 July 2026, between 3PM and 5PM EDT (7PM to 9PM UTC), easyDNS’s registry partner will be doing maintenance to improve platform performance and make needed updates. This will likely cause some connectivity outages for registrations, renewals, nameserver and whois updates over the course of the 2-hour window. The domain’s DNS service will […]
Bought an expired startup domain. A few days later, I inherited their AWS Root account.
The following was posted by u/eVal64 to Reddit’s r/sysadmin and for some reason was removed by moderators, why, I do not know (from what’s left of the comment thread, perhaps because they think it was written with AI, although the OP admits he used AI for translation). In any case, this is a highly on […]
Sporadic Email Delays – RESOLVED
Some clients may be experiencing sporadic email delays. We are aware and are investigating the cause.
Dropping Zcash / ZEC payment support
Over the past day or so a serious bug in the Zcash Orchard shielded pool source code came to light which casts doubt over the overall integrity of the Zcash ecosystem. It is possible that ZEC was counterfeited within the Orchard shielded pool, and because of the privacy guarantees there is no definitive way to […]
GPG-encrypted email forwarding is back, and the mxcrypt relay is now open source
Back in 2013 we announced GPG-encrypted email forwarding a way to add your public GPG keys into an email forwarding path so that any mail coming through your mailmap would arrive at its destination GPG encrypted. It was never intended to be end-to-end encryption. What it does provide is encrypted data-at-rest. That means you can […]
