I was away when the big announcement came out. The news was, more or less, “US GOVERNMENT RELINQUISHES CONTROL OF THE INTERNET!!!!!” and I put it in all caps and underlined and with a lot of !!!! because the people who are busily talking about it in that context are typically newbie type half-wits, or […]
Definitive Proof ICANN's New Whois Verification Works
One of my own websites just got knocked offline by that new ICANN Whois Accuracy Program we told you about a few weeks ago. Recall that it’s a new policy which requires you to explicitly verify your contact info if you modify your whois record. Also, I forgot to mention this, if your email address […]
Phishing email from Royal Bank targeting easyDNS customers
Update 12:14pm It now appears as if this campaign doesn’t specifically target easyDNS customers or domains, it just mentions that the transaction is from easyDNS, even if the recipient is not an easyDNS customer. We have received reports of easyDNS customers people receiving the following phishing email pretending to originate from Royal Bank: Subject: ID2901: […]
7 Great Web Hosting Screwings To Watch Out For
[ This is a reprint of the “Why Choose easyWEB” page from over on, you know, easyWEB ] Why easyWEB? While we may be latecomers to the web hosting space, in the course of helping you manage your domains and DNS for over 15 years we’ve seen pretty well every trick in the book, […]
YOU have a moral obligation to use crypto.
Today is The Day We Fight Back, a global initiative to send a message to our overlords that we’re not thrilled about being spied on, subject to mass surveillance and basically living in an Orwellian nightmare. Ordinarily we’re not big “joiners” or “petition pushers”, we think taking action has more efficacy. However, this is in […]
Welcome to easyDNS, Press 1 for support. Press 2 to get the last 4-digits of your credit card number on file here.
Just kidding. We’ve had numerous requests to today to comment on this issue as Naoki Hiroshima’s nightmarish tale of how his Godaddy account, Paypal account and ultimately his highly coveted Twitter handle were compromised and the latter stolen. (Sorry I haven’t posted sooner on this, I’m out of the office this week, way up north […]
