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 […]
DNSResolvers.com Shutdown Imminent
As announced nearly a year ago, DNSResolvers.com will be shutdown, no later than July 1st. As outlined in our original announcement: DNSResolvers was free, it was not our core business, and we now exist in online environment where nobody should be running open public resolvers unless they are devoting ample resources toward making sure they […]
Growth for Growth’s Sake Leads to Nowhere
The other day I had lunch with a colleague and he brought up Matthew Woodward’s epic rant against WPEngine and he also mentioned Jason Cohen’s rebuttal post “Growth is Hard” and that set us off on a long discussion around today’s tech biz climate (which is almost synonymous with the “start-up” culture, because these days everybody […]
The Streamlined DNS Editor is here
The DNS Zone Overview has been updated a bit so now it’s easier for you to edit multiple records and record types at the same time. You access this new editor via the left-hand side menu option “DNS Settings” from your member control panel. Here’s a quick video to walk you through the key differences […]
