Hot on the heels of our “Why does easyDNS provide services to Martian Separatists” post from the other day, wherein we explain why we provide services to organizations some may deem controversial, we were contacted overnight by DailyStormer founder Andrew Anglin asking if we would allow dailystormer to use our services.
Why does easyDNS provide services to Martian separatists?
“I wholly disapprove of what you say and will defend to the death your right to say it.” –Evelyn Beatrice Hall Events of late have highlighted the importance of domain names and the power various providers such as Registrars, DNS providers and other web services hold over those names. Predictably, we’ve had a noticeable uptick […]
O’Reilly drops Managing Mission Critical Domains book
UPDATE: My book did eventually come out thanks to Packt Publishing. Click here to learn more. There is no easy way to say it, but here it is: O’Reilly has dropped the Managing Mission Critical Domains & DNS book. I’m told that this isn’t a “content based decision”, as in “your book sucks”. It’s considered […]
[RFO] Reason For Outage May 1, 2017
Yesterday we experienced an outage affecting the main easyDNS website, the control panel, easyMail and mail forwarding. The cause was a corrupted database in our core DB cluster. As expedient as it might be to blame the root cause on Russian state-sponsored hackers, the reality is that it was caused by operator error. A sysadmin was […]
easyDNS to issue $1 Billion in Negative Yielding "easyBonds"
/Newswire – Toronto / In a move described as the next logical step in business financing, easyDNS Technologies announced today the issuance of $1,000,000,000 CAD in negative yielding debt (“easyBonds”). The issuance will carry a short-term maturity of 30 days and yield negative 50 basis points (or -0.5%). The move will net the Toronto based […]
Our efforts to acquire Zerigo have fallen through….
For some time I suspected that DNS provider Zerigo was no longer a priority for their parent company after they were acquired by VOIP provider (and easyDNS client) 8×8 back in 2011. This sort of thing happens all the time, company gets acquired, parent switches direction, some of the acquisitions get left out in the […]
