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; […]
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 […]
