Similar to how it’s getting harder these days to differentiate actual news from The Onion satires, reality takes on a somewhat surreal timbre when it starts to imitate your April Fool’s gags from yesteryear… In 2011 we joked “easyDNS To Launch .SUX TLD”, in which we posited a thinly veiled extortion racket to goad squeamish […]
easyDNS to Rebrand as easy.WTF
After 16 years as an iconic .com startup, easyDNS will shed its moniker and rebrand as easy.WTF. At a press conference this morning, easy.WTF CEO Mark Jeftovic explained “dot COM is a dinosaur. That era is over. The Zeitgeist of the times we live in is captured perfectly by WTF”. The company foresees a meteoric […]
easyDNS To Be Dropped From Andy Lehrer Lawsuit
Pursuant to a settlement, easyDNS is being dropped by Andy Lehrer from the Tim O’Rourke / causepimps.ca defamation lawsuit. Under the terms of the settlement easyDNS will not pay Mr. Lehrer anything and will remove the offending webpages / URLs upon a judicial finding that they are defamatory (something our Plain English Terms of Service […]
An Open Letter to Bittorrent and File Sharing Sites
Since our successful wrangling with another ICANN registrar over the rights of domain name holders and the responsibilities of registrars when transferring their names, we have unsurprisingly become a “goto” registrar for bittorrent and filesharing sites. I wanted to clarify the easyDNS stance on this because I think the entire filesharing space has a limited […]
Changes to Terms of Service
We have just modified Item #5 of our Terms of Service as follows: Old Version 5. Having said that: We are typically vigorous advocates for our clients. We require a court order to take down your domains or websites and we notify of you of any attempts to take down your domains or websites or […]
Andy Lehrer Files Amended Claim Adding 3 New Allegations Against easyDNS
In the matter of Andy Lehrer vs Tim Rourke & easyDNS, Mr. Lehrer has filed an amended claim adding three new allegations against easyDNS. Mr. Lehrer has dropped the paragraph that seeks removal of the website (this avenue is not available under Small Claims cases). Mr. Lehrer has added three additional allegations against easyDNS. There […]
