[Update: Ironically, after ascending rapidly and fostering vigorous commentary over on Hackernews, this article has been “flagged” there . Update #2: A few hours later it was unflagged and is currently on the first page of HN ] The phenomenon of deplatforming in the internet age, which includes the component of publicly expressed outrage that impels companies to […]
What to do about those “You’ve been hacked! Pay me Bitcoin” email spams
We originally reported on this back in #AxisOfEasy 58, it’s the phenomenon of getting an email spam wherein the mailer claims to have hacked or compromised your computer, and will (pick one). encrypt or corrupt your computers, files or data spread embarrassing or compromising information about you to your contacts release an unflattering video ostensibly […]
A Tale of Two Outages
We compared two datacenter outages that occurred relatively close to each other in both time and space. The first was the Namejuice/DROA/DROC outage which, in the absence of any information from the vendor we speculated upon and analyzed here. The other happened to us about a week ago. Both occurred during North American peak business […]
[Resolved] Brief Datacenter Outage
Shortly after 3pm ET today our main datacenter in Markham, ON experienced a failure in one of its core routers at 151 Front St, which as many of you know is the main NAP for Toronto area. This affected connectivity to the main easyDNS control panel, website, email servers and web hosting platform. DNS and […]
Lessons Learned from the Namejuice/DROA/DROC Outage
Last week an ICANN registrar, Namejuice, went off the air for the better part of the day – disappearing off the internet at approximately 8:30am, taking all domains delegated to its nameservers with it, and did not come back online until close to 11pm ET. That was a full business day and more of complete […]
Ethereum Name Service (ENS) Integration Now Live on Mainnet.
Shortly after last year’s first Ethereum Name Service (ENS) Workshop in London, UK; ENS Working Group lead Nick Johnson released an implementation of ENS integration for the ropsten test network. Since then, the ENS WG has been working with the .XYZ registry and easyDNS to implement live ENS integration for .XYZ domains on the Ethereum […]
