Nostr (Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays) continues to gain traction and spread like wildfire. For those hearing about it for the first time, Nostr is a fully decentralized microblogging protocol (and not a platform, the way Mastodon is). It divides right down to the user account level, governed by an asymmetric key pair, which makes it even client agnostic […]
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.INFO and .MOBI price increase
easyDNS will be adjusting our prices for .INFO and .MOBI registrations in reaction to registry fee increases. The price adjustment for both starts on Thursday, February 16th, 2023 when .INFO registration fees will increase to $24/year on a two-year registration and $26 for a single year. For .MOBI, the fees will increase to $29/year on […]
Canada’s Bill C-26: Yet Another Government Power Grab
Soviet Era Ethos Stomps Privacy and Due-Process Another doozy from the Canadian government. Following along several other bills winding their way along the Road to Serfdom… Bill C-11 regulates the internet under the CRTC and paves the way toward institutionalized content moderation, the requirement for licenses to publish online, and regulation of user generated content […]
.NET 2023 price increase
As communicated in August, the .NET registry has been approved to increase their price the beginning of next month. easyDNS will be adjusting our price for .NET registrations in reaction to this registry fee increase. The price adjustment starts on Wednesday February 1st 2023 where .NET registration fees will increase to $17 / year on […]
Move over Mastodon, here comes Nostr
The latest Twitter challenger takes decentralization a step further Notes and Other Stuff, a.k.a Nostr is the latest decentralized microblogging protocol to take aim at centralized social media platforms. It’s like a decentralized Twitter. Contrast with Mastodon, where the decentralization is achieved via a federation of nodes (but each node is effectively centrally controlled), Nostr […]
Maintenance Window January 1, 2023
On Sunday, January 1, 2023 starting at 5:00am ET (10:00am UTC), we will be conducting a scheduled maintenance, which will affect access to some cpanel portals. The maintenance window is scheduled to be for 3 hours but we hope to have it completed much sooner. Here is a list of affected services: Access to some […]
