At the time of writing there are about 24 hours left in the CIRA Board elections, voting closes tomorrow (September 26) at noon EST. What is interesting this year is that renowned privacy advocate Michael Geist has once again been nominated on the members’ slate and if successful would be back on the CIRA Board. […]
Secondary DNS From Godaddy: Things To Know
There are a lot of people moving their domains here from Godaddy lately. In addition to simply moving their DNS over to us completely – there are also many who are opting to stick with Godaddy and adding us on as secondary / additional DNS. We remain advocates of “multi provider” DNS solutions but […]
Who are the Best Domain Registrars?
Lifehacker is doing another“Who is the Best Registrar” survey, and of course we’ve been out there tweeting and #fb-ing for everybody to head on over there and vote….for us 🙂 Of course. (If you’re not familiar with us, check out our main website here, or read 10 Things You Must Know Before You Register A […]
How to Leave easyDNS
[ If you’re interested in the backstory to this post, read on, if you want to skip straight to how to get the hell out here, skip down to How To Leave easyDNS ] I have been listening to Doc Searls’ The Intention Economy lately, it is an amazing book for a number of reasons […]
Workaround for switching off of Godaddy
We tread a fine line today as we pride ourselves in not chasing ambulances here. As we’ve pointed out before in our “DNS and DDOS attacks: how to stay up when your DNS provider goes down“, DDoS attacks suck and it’s the last reason we want to gain customers. But we are experiencing higher than […]
14 years of easyDNS and Four Core Values
easyDNS is 14 years old today! What a ride it’s been. We started the day on July 31st, 1998 as 3 founders, with no dependents and 0 customers. By the end of the day we had one dependent (co-founder John Schmidt’s son was born during the day), and 0 customers. And by the end of […]
