Mastodon is in the news lately and there is a lot of fresh interest. This article will take you through the background of what it is, why it’s experiencing a surge in popularity and how you can participate in “The Fediverse” from an individual, group or node operator level. What is Mastodon? Mastodon is an […]
PayPal, Bank Seizures and the Necessity for Trustless Money
When I first heard about Paypal’s plan to deduct $2,500 from account for each instance where “in Paypal’s sole discretion”, the account holder had transmitted “misinformation”, I all but took a strip out of the person who sent it to me because I couldn’t believe it was real. It was a thread from a Telegram […]
Beware of Ethereum Merge Related Phishing Emails
The long awaiting Ethereum Merge occurred in the early hours of Sept 15th. It didn’t take long for the scammers to start sending out fake emails urging the recipients to upgrade their client/account/whatever in order to be able to stay current under the new system.
Native Support for Registering Ethereum Name Service (ENS) .ETH Domains
We were the first ICANN registrar to support Ethereum Name Service (ENS) linking to legacy IANA TLDs, starting with .XYZ back in 2018 and then earlier this year with many others, including .COM. That means you could use your .XYZ or .COM domain as an Ethereum wallet address, NFT, etc. We’ve now gone a step […]
Solving the “Fake Twitter Profile” Problem using DNS
Recently, an article I wrote for Bitcoin Magazine talked about how we can use DNS underscore scoping to better abstract Lightning addresses and even create a de facto specification that could work on any resource (like a wallet or a smart contract) across all blockchains.
Impact of Rogers network outage
As you may know (unless you don’t because you have no internet), the Canadian provider Rogers is experiencing a nationwide network outage affecting internet, mobile payments, phone service, etc. Core services here at easyDNS are unaffected. We have some reports that customers attempting to pay for services are unable to do so (seems confined to […]
