A ban on cash, the post office can open your letters, and warrantless data taps, oh my! The recently re-elected Liberal government has tabled Bill C-2, “The Strong Borders Act”, ostensibly to tighten up border security after the Trump Tariff Tantrums that threw a monkey-wrench into Canada’s political landscape and economy. But nestled within this […]
easyDNS First To Use AI To Answer All DNS Queries
As is customary for the most bleeding-edge DNS provider in existence – easyDNS notches another industry first in being the first (and currently only) DNS provider to exclusively answer ANY and all DNS queries using Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Natural Language Processing. That means the Stone Age RFC-1035 DNS messages have been obsoleted – instead […]
Set your BlueSky Handle to your own domain name using DNS
There’s a lot of activity on BlueSky lately, one of the Twitter/X alternatives. Like Mastodon (another Twitter/X alternative, we’ve been following for awhile), your identifier is based on a hostname – which opens the door to integrating with it a custom domain via the DNS. A nice feature they have over there on BlueSky […]
URL Forwarding with “Drop Path” and “Drop Query String” options
By default, our URL forwarding and redirection always preserved the full pathname and query strings in all requests. It means that if you were forwarding: https://example.com to https://example.net Then all requests to the old URL that had path info or query strings, like: https://example.com/document/name?param=value Would have the /document/name?param=value preserved when forwarded: https://example.net/document/name?param=value But sometimes you […]
easyDNS now accepting Solana (SOL) payments
easyDNS is now accepting Solana (SOL) payments for all services, following on a theme of firsts: First ICANN accredited registrar to accept Bitcoin payments (back in 2013) We had Bitcoin treasury strategy long before anybody had ever heard of Microstrategy. First to accept ETH for payments and provide ENS linking to legacy domains, […]
Email Forwarding Slowdowns: What You Can Do When It Happens
Starting last Friday (May 17th), some members who were email forwarding to their Rogers mailboxes started reporting slowdowns or being unable to receive email via their email forwarders. It turned out that Yahoo (Rogers outsources their email to Yahoo) was rejecting email from some of our forwarders with the message: Remote-MTA: dns; mta6.am0.yahoodns.net Diagnostic-Code: smtp; […]
