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 […]
Mini-FAQ about the Jan 07 DDoS Attack
Poor Les, is on Sunday support today and knows he’s facing a lot of email and calls. On his way in, asked me for some guidance on three specific questions he is expecting to face a lot today. Those questions are: How did something like this happen, and why did it affect me/my domains/my client’s […]
DoS Attack persists.
Also See: Mini-FAQ about the Jan 07 DDoS Attack [UPDATE: 12:54AM Jan 08] The attack traffic is still coming in fairly heavily. We are working on a couple of avenues of adjusting our defenses. [UPDATE: 2:33AM EST Jan 08] DNS1 is back online. dns2 has been mostly online througout most of this. […]
How SOPA Will Destroy The Internet
As you read this, please keep in mind that I say it all with a track record of nearly 14 years of being proactive and having a zero-tolerance policy towards criminal activity and network abuse on our system. We have great relationships with Law Enforcement Agencies both here in Canada and abroad. We are always […]
The Updated easyWhois iPhone App Looks Great!
We’ve released an updated version of our (free) easyWhois iPhone App. In 2009 we worked with easyDNS customer Art and Logic to release an iPhone App version of our popular easyWhois domain lookup tool. They were great to work with, and as is their norm, they sent us off with fully functional iPhone App and […]
