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 […]
Statement Regarding Nameserver Hijacking of Province of Ontario Domains
We are aware of the situation in which gov.on.ca and ontario.ca had their nameservers hijacked. easyDNS is the Registrar of record for these domains. easyDNS is not the DNS provider for them. At this time we feel the need to keep this brief as there may potentially be an investigation into the attackers. The attack […]
Trial Date Set in the Matter of Andy Lehrer vs easyDNS
A trial date has been set in the matter of Andy Lehrer vs easyDNS. Recall, this is the case where we were presented with a takedown request for some pages on causepimps.ca. We responded that “we don’t do that unless you have a legal basis, like a court order”, and then he went and sued […]
