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; […]
RCA: Intermittent DNS1 Issues on April 3rd 2024
Background: Until March 31, 2024, easyDNS was contracting with Cloudflare to provide DNS firewall services on our DNS1 and DNS2 anycast constellations. After a good run, lasting over 10 years, we decided to go in a different direction and provided them with notification to that effect back in January. On April 1st, after removing RPKI […]
Les nouvelles politiques de messagerie électronique de Gmail, Yahoo, et autres nécessiteront des domaines activés pour DMARC
Mise à jour : 20 janv. 2024 : La date limite du 1er février ne concerne que les domaines expéditeurs qui envoient plus de 5 000 messages par jour vers Google. À partir du 1er février, Gmail et Yahoo commenceront à appliquer l’exigence de Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance (“DMARC”). DMARC est un protocole […]
New email policies at Gmail, Yahoo et al will require DMARC enabled domains
As of February 1st, Gmail and Yahoo will start enforcing a requirement for Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance (“DMARC“). DMARC is an IETF protocol as specified in RFC7489. It will initially affect large senders, defined as domains originating more than 5K emails per day into the Gmail system (this is the shape of things […]
Raising the identity theft bar when traveling
We are traveling at the moment, and I just went down to the hotel business center to print off a document. This hotel is using Microsoft boxes, so as I’m floundering around looking for how to access my USB stick, I end up in a browser and I see the desktop. On top of a […]
