XE.com is a site I was using for years every time I needed to do a quick currency conversion before I realized they were a member. Nice easy and quick interface which allows me to quickly see the direction of the market across all the major currencies. They also provide data feeds via XML and […]
usable.ca
I’m always doing whois lookups all day long for various reasons. Today the concept of “usability” struct me as I was previewing YASBS (Yet Another Social Bookmarking Site) and on a whim (many of the whois lookups I conduct are, in fact, whimsical) I looked up usable.ca and got that warm fuzzy feeling I experience […]
Who uses easyDNS?
This was an idea we had back at the beginning, a kind of take off on “whois” to show “Who Uses” easyDNS. Only problem at the time was: we didn’t have any customers yet. So with regular frequency, a lot of high-end, relevant, fun or otherwise interesting websites that use us as a registrar or […]
We are now checking SPF data for hotmail.com on smtp2
We have found it necessary to turn on SPF checking for the hotmail.com on the smtp2 (backup MX) pool after a massive dictionary attack on a customer domain using forged hotmail.com addresses got us blackholed at hotmail’s servers. This meant we were not able to send over legitimate hotmail.com mail from the smtp2 pool. Now […]
Mail forwarding delays
Due to an overwhelming amount of spam our customers are receiving, there may be longer-than-normal delays in the forwarding of email for those with domains that use easyDNS’ mailservers for email forwarding. This does not mean that you will lose email destined for external email accounts as listed within your mailmaps, rather, there will be […]
Hotmail mail forwarding
It has come to our attention that Hotmail is blocking email being relayed from “smtp2.easydns.com”. This should not affect overall email forwarding performance, as the use of “smtp2.easydns.com” should be one of backup, with “smtp.easydns.com” as a primary MX record for all email handled by easyDNS for our customers. However, we are actively communicating with […]
