We’re thrilled to be a part of the Toronto Bitcoin Summit 2013, the inaugural event to be hosted at The Academy of the Impossible. The Academy is an open source social enterprise operated by Metaviews Media Management. Many of you may know Jesse Hirsh, a longtime media maven, hacker, broadcaster and visionary who is the […]
[RESOLVED] Issue with the .ORG Registry
[ 9:12PM EST UPDATE: this is now fixed and we are reprocessing any open registrations or renewals ] We are experiencing an issue with the .ORG registry right now where some new domain registrations and/or renewals are not being executed. We are working on the situation and will spool any misfired registrations or renewals […]
[RESOLVED] DDoS Event in progress (yes, again).
We have what looks like another DDoS in progress, we are still isolating the attack vector but things are stabilizing somewhat. More as it comes in. — On the subject of DDoS attacks, members can expect an all-member email around what we are doing behind the scenes to address these now, near constant DDoS attacks. […]
The Origin of the Gods
It’s been awhile since we posted under the “Who Uses easyDNS” section. This morning I was perusing the daily changes for our nameservers and noticed the following domain just transferred in: originofthegods.com. Having grown up on a steady diet of C.W Ceram, Greek mythology, The Golden Bough, et al I was pretty much hooked by […]
DNSResolvers open resolvers will be shut down.
We recently made the decision internally that our DNSResolvers.com had to cease being open resolvers. We were still trying to figure out the best way to transition to an authenticated model gracefully. However, tonight we were DDoS-ed against those open resolvers and while our core easyDNS authoritative DNS services were not impacted, our customer environment […]
This is what your registrar sees when your domain is seized under a sealed warrant.
We’ve commented before on the ramifications of US agencies operating via registry operators to seize domain names. What it effectively does is put all domain names registered under .com/.net/.org/.biz under the jurisdiction of US law, for better or for worse. Although I have never heard of the domain name that was seized (it looks like […]
