We are under DDoS at the moment. This looks like a larger version of a smaller DDoS yesterday which was possibly a test run. Currently we are turning up mitigation and investigating. Please bear with us. Update 21:19 EST This DDoS attack is different from our previous ones in that it looks as if the […]
Memo to ICANN: Registries Need To Price In Bitcoin
ICANN’s job as an oversight body to the global naming system is (supposedly) to weigh the needs of all global stakeholders and to try to address regional, national and linguistic requirements. In practice, not much of this happens, so we’re left with an internet where most domain name registrants are subject to US law and […]
Announcing easyPress, managed WordPress hosting – high performance wp with built-in disaster recovery
It was nearly a year ago when Victor Granic asked to pick my brain around “how to build an awesome company” (Thanks Victor, that’s quite a compliment). He was building a startup that was doing a lot of WordPress development. Similar to the precursor company from which easyDNS came out of, they found themselves hosting […]
Save money on your easyDNS services
[ We’ve had a couple customers request that we post this email here so that they can refer their colleagues and customers to a URL that contains the information. If you’re also subscribed to the blog mailing list that means you’ll get this again, sorry ] Recently launched “domainPlus” package perfect for non mission-critical domains. […]
Go ahead, pass the Internet tax. Your (foreign) competitors thank you in advance.
The internet is a pretty stupid place to pass a tax, and the US looks well down the road to passing one. What lawmakers fail to understand is that taxation specific to the internet, ostensibly to boost revenues into government coffers, in practice will probably diminish them as US businesses lose competitiveness against foreign companies. […]
We now accept Bitcoin as a payment method.
Last week we enabled Bitcoin as a payment method. It works a little differently than the other payment methods. Click on the Bitcoin logo, once you remit your payment to the Bitcoin address that will be displayed for your particular invoice Send the exact amount do not round up or down. Once we receive 6 […]
