Be on your guard, the phishing attacks are coming from every vector nowadays. The other night I received this SMS on my cell phone at about 3:30am. Obviously a fake login site, in this case we can tell from looking at the domain name itself that it was registered for the explicit purpose of setting […]
Confessions of an ex-opponent of Whois Privacy
The following is the easyDNS response to ICANN’ public comment period on GNSO Privacy & Proxy Services Accreditation Issues Working Group Initial Report. The public comment period is open until July 7, 2015. We strongly urge you to make your voice known by signing the petition over at Save Domain Privacy. I submit these comments […]
Andy Lehrer Lawsuit is Finally Over
A judge has ruled in favour of Andy Lehrer in his suit against Tim Rourke regarding the pages about him on causepimps.ca and has been awarded full damages ($25,000) plus costs. Rourke was a no-show in court and his defence was struck. After some initial confusion as to whether there was actually anything for easyDNS […]
The ICANN Whois Accuracy Program (WAP) FAQ has been posted
We’ve posted the mini-FAQ about the ICANN Whois Accuracy Program (WAP) in the knowledge base. It is available here: https://fusion.easydns.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/260/17/the-icann-whois-accuracy-program-wap Further Reading: Unfortunately, We have renewed our ICANN accreditation As Deadly as a DDoS, ICANN Unleashes the WAP
Malware email alert from registrar@easydns.com
Looks like a malware email has been going out with the envelope from set to registrar@easydns.com Subject: Invoice The body of the message says simply: Check Invoice#37 The number varies but seems to be two digits, the attached zip file will be named Invoice#(37).zip where the number will match the one in the body of […]
Unfortunately, we have renewed our ICANN Accreditation
[ NOTE: We will be posting a follow-up to address the many questions that have come up out of this. One thing we’ll mention now since it’s the most asked question: .CA domains are not affected by this (they already undergo a validation process by CIRA – more on that in the follow up) ] […]
