I just finished reading Dan Lyon’s “Disrupted”. I devoured it in a little over 2 days and took frequent breaks to email various friends and colleagues (many of them tech CEOs of non-unicorns, go figure) that they had to read it. The story of Lyon’s tumultuous ride at Hubspot, a tech unicorn which has never […]
easyDNS to refuse queries from rogue states, illegal immigrants, and leftists
Speaking at a company rally in Forest Hill, Louisiana, easyDNS strongman Mark (“The Mark”) Jeftovic decried an epidemic of political correctness destroying the DNS protocol.
The US Government has no credibility to compel anybody to weaken security
This is my belated obligatory post about the entire “Apple vs the FBI” episode and whether it should help decrypt the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone. People have commented that I should write something, and I’ve been reluctant in case I go off in full-rant-mode. I wrote the entire post and then after I re-read it […]
Maybe Yahoo should buy Godaddy
…was one of the random, possibly nutso thoughts I had on the drive in this morning whilst listening to the financial news. Yahoo is one of the rare companies actually trading up so far today on the “news” that it’s forming a committee of independent board members to examine strategy. Nobody’s said it, but in my mind […]
You may only be as secure as your weakest vendor
The scale and immensity of hacking incidents worldwide is on the upswing. It seems everybody is getting hacked at one point or another. Even easyDNS had a low level data breach a few months ago (email addresses were exfiltrated from a server housing a third-party marketing CMS). Some incidents are worse than others, and the severity […]
Never let your services slip into expiry again
We’ve had a lot of customers wishing they could set up their easyDNS account similar to other IT vendors: where they could store their billing info and have their domains and other services automagically renew or rebill as required or whenever new services are added. That time has now arrived. You will never have to […]
