The ability to secure your zone transfers via TSIG Transaction Signatures for domains using us for secondary DNS is now available as beta on the new interface. See this help doc for more details. Transaction Signatures (TSIG) are a method of securing zone transfers between your primary nameserver and us using a secret key as […]
easyddns: A Mac OSX Dynamic DNS Client
We’re happy to announce easyddns, a dynamic DNS client for Mac OSX. After noticing a distinct lack of options available from third-party vendors for Mac-based dynamic DNS clients, easyddns has been developed by easyDNS, for easyDNS members and is available here.
The Definitive Guide To Never Losing Your Domain
We’ve written a free guide that basically outlines a basic methodology on how to organize things so that you never lose your domain names. We’ve been in this business for over a decade, I’ve basically been in the habit for years of visually inspecting the domains that are about to be deleted by the registry […]
How the new .CA Registry will impact easyDNS users specifically
We posted earlier today about the launch of the new .CA registry and how they will be “freezing” several transaction types in the run-up to the launch. (Yes, CIRA is doing a “flash-cut”, we wish them well). Once the new system is up and running, easyDNS members needs to be aware of the following with […]
On Bell or Rogers and Missing email? Check your "Spam" Folder
We’ve noticed an uptick in users from Bell, Sympatico and Rogers reporting “missing” email via email forwarding. Further investigation reveals that the emails in question have been misfiled by Hotmail or Yahoo into their spam folder (Rogers and Bell outsource their mail offerings to Yahoo and Hotmail respectively). If this is becoming a problem for […]
Go vote in the CIRA elections, if you haven't already
The voting process for the CIRA election is on for a couple more days, ending on the 29th. As I always remark, the .CA space is quite unique in that it gives the primary stakeholders, the .CA domain registrants, unprecedented ability to shape policy via direct Board elections, yet the turnout is often fairly sparse. […]
