The other day Arnon forwarded me a blog post about the ordeal some poor guy went through with his registrar account getting hacked (not here, someplace else), and the thief transferred-out his domain name and changed the ownership of it. His particular story had a happy ending for a number of reasons: The thief left […]
NS1 and NS2 spike at 10:00am EST
At around 10:00am EST +/- 5 mins both ns1 and ns2 received sharp spikes of inbound traffic lasting approximately 15 minutes. While the volume of those spikes was not overpowering, the servers did timeout some queries. As many people know, we have been under DDoS attack against ns1 and ns2 since last week. The attack […]
Post mortem of the overnight DDoS Attack
Overnight on October 24, 2011 between the hours of approximately 12:55am and 2:55am ET the NS1 and NS2 anycast constellations came under a DDoS Attack. The attack was a combined syn flood and DNS flood which impaired the following anycast constellations to varying degrees: ns1.easydns.com/remote1.easydns.com (a.k.a dns1.easydns.com) ns2.easydns.com/remote2.easydns.com (a.k.a dns2.easydns.net) The attack primarily impacted […]
Verisign domain takedown proposal very worrisome.
Under a proposed Verisign initiative, all .COM/.NET domains exist at the pleasure of the United States government. Verisign just released an overview of their proposed “Anti-Abuse Domain Use Policy” Under ICANN’s Registry Services Evaluation Process. The program’s chief aim is to provide a takedown mechanism of malicious websites distributing malware. In itself, not a bad […]
Try Enterprise DNS for a month, on us.
On friday we announced that our GeoDNS service had gone into βeta. Hidden in the fine print of that post was our trial offer on Enterprise DNS. We figured it would be weasle-ish to force people into a paid upgrade to Enterprise DNS to get access to a beta feature, hence the free trial. Since […]
Friday fun: GeoDNS now in Beta
We’re pleased to announce that GeoDNS is now in βeta. GeoDNS enables you to serve different DNS data based on four globally geographic regions: North America (East) North America (West) Europe Asia This may be useful if you are streaming content from multiple datacenters or want to direct traffic from different parts of the world […]
