Given our previous opposition to various legislative proposals aimed at the Internet such as our take on SOPA, the short lived Verisign Takedown Proposal, we would be remiss if we did not comment on Bill C-30, “Lawful Access”. I read it a couple nights ago and I think it’s one of the worst legislative proposals […]
Keep Saving Those Elephants
This past week we received our copy of the 2011 Annual Report from Save The Elephants. As you may recall we made a donation last year during one of Godaddy’s seemingly myriad public gaffes involving an elephant snuff vid made by then-CEO Bob Parsons. Since then, the internet marches on, some other outrage, some other […]
[RESOLVED] Web control panel unreachable
At about 10:35am the web interface for the new platform became unreachable due to the problem with the Xen server holding the VM instance. Remote hands are looking into it while the rest of the systems group are working on why the warm-spares are currently pretty frigid. DNS services, URL and email forwarding, easyMail are […]
Starting Wednesday, All New Domains Will Be Added via the New Platform
Just a quick heads up that starting Wednesday, if you are still using the legacy platform to manage your domains, any new domains you add to your account will be added via the new platform. This will be a pretty frictionless process. If you are logged into the old platform, your password will work on […]
"The Voice of The Internet Community Has Been Heard"
A couple of encouraging developments out of the US reported as today via TheDomains blog make us cautiously optimistic that the Stop Online Privacy Act (a.k.a “SOPA”) bill (to which we posted our objections in December) may be on ice for now. We were not alone in opposing SOPA and related initiatves, numerous domain registrars […]
Post-Mortem of the Jan-07 DDoS Attack
On Saturday, Jan 07 commencing at approximately 3:30pm EST (almost the exact moment I hit “publish” on a post about Save The Elephants, which we’ll repost later) we were hit with a multi-faceted DDoS Attack across three anycast constellations: dns1, dns2 and dns3. The attack was a combination SYN, ICMP and DNS Flood, in excess […]
