We have an immediate opening for an Intermediate (or suitably sharp junior) Sysadmin. The successful candidate will understand DNS, Debian, Apache, MySQL, PHP, Xen Virtualization, BGP, NetApps, etc have all those qualities companies find desirable in a sysadmin. You know the drill: Ability to figure it out, communicate effectively, work unsupervised, keep multiple concurrent projects […]
Here's Why We Took Down A Pharmacy Domain Without A Court Order.
Update – Aug 22, 2014 – Second FDA Takedown Request Declined Two days ago the FDA sent us a list of 29 more domain names they would like us to take down. The list included 8 domains owned by a Canadian business we know to be operating lawfully that we recently sprang from an arbitrary […]
Overnight DDoS attack Aug 10 – 11
We have experienced an attack event overnight Sunday (Aug 10) commencing approx. 11pm ET which continues now (early Monday Aug 11, 12:44am ET) Due to a variety of factors, the effect was worse than usual and for a brief period, all four enterprise nameserver constellations were severely degraded. These factors included: dns3.easydns.org – routing complications […]
Is Your Domain Name Safe From Nefarious Interests?
The following post was originally run as a guest editorial for The Dollar Vigilante. The soft underbelly of everything you do online are your domain names and DNS. (Briefly, your domain names are the labels people use to reach your website or send you email: i.e dollarvigilante.com. DNS is the mechanism computers use to map where […]
DNS2.easydns.net IP address to change
On Monday July 21st we will be updating the IP address for DNS2.EASYDNS.NET Old IP: 72.52.2.1 New IP: 198.41.222.254 DNS2 will also acquire IPv6 transit using: 2400:cb00:2049:1::c629:defe This should be completely transparent to all users. We mention it for the benefit of those using unauthorized vanity nameservers, which as we always stress will void your […]
4 Key Things To Know About Being Compliant With CASL (Canadian Anti-Spam Legislation)
CASL kicks in on July 1st, we first wrote about it here. We are still of the opinion that for many internet based businesses who are already following standard best practices for running their email lists, this isn’t that much of a big deal. (There are dissenting opinions on this, see this article) When trying […]
