This is an urgent security advisory regarding an openSSL security vulnerability CVE-2014-0160, which was revealed today to be a catastrophic, remotely exploitable security vulnerability affecting all applications utilizing openSSL. The vulnerability was announced via the domain http://www.heartbleed.com Which versions are affected is unclear: The Heartbleed website says everything above 1.0.0+ We also read an unconfirmed report […]
Bitcoin Payments Are Now Mandatory
Effective immediately, Bitcoin will be the only payment method accepted for all easyDNS services. Remember this date. That is all.
The New TLDs are Here. Do You Really Need Yourname.BLARGH?
It’s been a long time coming, but as of a few months ago, the onslaught of the new Top Level Domains (“TLDs”) has commenced. This is quite the game-changer because the sheer volume of new TLDs necessitates a different strategy for protecting one’s interests than was the general convention of the past. In the past, […]
What the recent US Government announcement about transitioning the root really means.
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: […]
