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 […]
The new TLD Buyers-Strike Starts Now
Today is the day, .xxx sunrise begins. Here’s an offer we should all refuse: Wanna protect your good name from having somebody erect a pornographic website on yourname.xxx? Then fork over $300 and you’ll be “protected” against that happening for 10 years. It’s called a non-adult sunrise blocking registration and the .xxx registry expects those […]
Who Will Be the Big Winners and Losers of the New TLDs?
Before the weekend I was asked to write a guest piece for Domain Name News (DNN) about my take on the new Top Level Domains program which purports to begin adding unlimited new TLDs to the root. Our reaction as a company to new TLDs is atypical for most Registrars. Rather than whip our member […]
