Whois Privacy is one of those things we’ve never done here because we had reservations about the efficacy of it, and felt there were certain inherent dangers to employing it. We are now officially flip-flopping on that position and will henceforth offer MyPrivacy.net whois control. Here’s why:
Just Released: DomainPlus – Everything You Need To Run Your Website at $15 / year.
A commonly overheard refrain throughout this wonderful Internet is “I keep the handful of domains that absolutely MUST be up all the time with easyDNS, and all the others I keep somewhere cheaper”. It must be a hassle, having some domains here, some over there, and dealing with the bargain basement outfits can’t be a […]
Don't Fall For This Domain Registration Scam
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 […]
