I just found the following email sent to us in our easyDNS support queue: From: Global Domains International Subject: Regarding your domain name neverloseanotherdomain.net Date: Tue, 01 May 2012 17:01:41 +0400 To: hostmaster@easydns.com From: Global Domains International Hello, I have the .COM version of your domain name neverloseanotherdomain.net for sale. Would you be interested in […]
Austerity is for Suckers as Verisign Locks Up .COM
“2. ICANN OBLIGATIONS. 2.3.2 not unreasonably restrain competition and, to the extent feasible, promote and encourage robust competition;” – ICANN Registrar Accreditation Agreement” While the rest of the world faces austerity measures, governments and people are being told to tighten their belts and make do with less. The tech sector’s lot in life is […]
[RESOLVED]: cache2.dnsresolvers.com currently unresponsive
RESOLVED: We have found and resolved the issue with the cache2.dnsresolvers.com cache2.dnsresolvers.com is currently unresponsive. DNSresolvers.com is our public service recursive DNS service, it’s unicast but does no NXDOMAIN interception or typo “correction”. cache1.dnsresolvers.com is functioning as expected. The systems group is investigating. All core easyDNS systems (DNS resolution, forwarding, email, etc) are unaffected […]
The Ramifications of US Government Domain Takedowns
When I posted about the bodog.com domain takedown the last thing I expected was for it to have “gone viral” the way it did. Given everything this company has been through and all the issues we’ve commented on (SOPA, Bill C-30, Elephant Snuff, Jotform), this one took the cake and was the most read article […]
Verisign seizes .com domain registered via foreign Registrar on behalf of US Authorities.
Yesterday Forbes broke the news that Canadian Calvin Ayre and partners who operate the Bodog online gambling empire have been indicted in the U.S., and in a blog post Calvin Ayre confirmed that their bodog.com domain had been seized by homeland security. As reported in Forbes (hat tip to The Domains for the cite), According to […]
The Official easyDNS Domain Takedown Policy
NOTE: easyDNS reserves the right to publicly post any takedown request we receive. Any legal or public documents involving easyDNS may be (and often are) posted to our blog. Writing this post I fondly recall one of my favorite Simpson’s scenes, when Montgomery Burns is being committed to a mental institution against his will […]
