It appears as if craigslist.org’s nameservers have been briefly hijacked via their registrar, Network Solutions. Don’t let it happen to you: Enable 2-factor authentication on your account (if your registrar offers it) Enable account ACLs or geo-targeted login restrictions on your account (if your registrar offers it) Enable event notifications on your account (if your […]
There Are Two Types of Businesses…
I reread yesterday’s post. It seemed a bit of a suckfest. Sure it’s all true. So what do you do about it? A couple years ago I started writing a book, working title, Punch Above Your Weight: How To Survive & Thrive Going Toe-to-Toe Against the 800lb Gorilla In Your Space. I got a fair […]
Three Reasons Small Independent Web Businesses Are Massively Outgunned
The other day I read this article over on ZeroHedge from a small business owner in the US on why businesses like his were the dwindling exception. He cited 9 reasons the deck is stacked against the owner-operated small business, they were mainly specific to bricks-and-mortar shops in the U.S., but it resonated with me […]
DNS Company Allows Key Domain To Lapse. Humiliation Ensues…
via The Cobbler’s Children Have No Shoes Dept…. I’ve been meaning to post this autopsy over a week ago, but I’ve been down with a chest cold, been busy and it’s just plain embarrassing. On Saturday November 6th, 2014, the easypress.ca domain name expired at the registry, basically vaporizing a majority chunk of the easyPress […]
Update on Andy Lehrer vs easyDNS Lawsuit
As we wrote previously we are being sued by Andy Lehrer as a co-defendant because we refused to take down the website causepimps.ca (specifically, this page) when he emailed in a takedown request earlier this year. (Briefly, we were requested to take down the web page, to which we replied: “As an ISP we are […]
Integration with Linode Nameservers now in beta
Following on our mantra that the way to achieve 100% DNS availability all the time, no matter what is to use multiple DNS systems and then have a coherent strategy for keeping them in sync and readily deploy-able, we bring you (easyNode?) DNS integration with Linode’s DNS service. What this means is that similar to […]
