As a Ready Networks customer you should have already received an email about the acquisition of Ready by easyDNS. As of this morning the domains of Ready Network customers have been switched over to easyDNS as your registrar. We are still in the process of migrating the customer data, please watch this space for updates. […]
Don’t Advertise URLs That You Don’t Exclusively Control
Well, I did say in the introduction to my book that I’m not a DNS expert per se, unless you use Neils Bohr’s definition of an expert as: “Somebody who has made all possible mistakes within a very narrow field.” …here’s another one:
A Heretic’s Guide to Deplatforming
[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 […]
