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. […]
Ok, here's what happened (with that DNS timeout thing this morning)
This morning around 8:30am EST monitoring services around the world, things like DNSStuff, Pingdom, etc began reporting DNS timeout errors for easyDNS back to their respective users. Oddly, most of the time a human check (like trying to get to a website in a web browser) would succeed. Not always. To compound the weirdness, none […]
Price Drop on Geotrust True BusinessID Wildcard SSL Certs
I had lunch yesterday with a colleague from Tucows, who is , among other things, our wholesale supplier of SSL certificates from Geotrust. I mentioned we had a customer who wanted 10 True BusinessID Wildcard SSL Certs and he said he would check on the possibility of getting us a price break on that order. […]
.CO domains in, .TEL domains are out.
As is customary here when it comes to new top-level domain rollouts, we’ve added support for .CO domains now that the registry has launched real-time live registrations. As we mentioned in previous posts, we are recommending that if you operate a serious net presence under .COM, you should if you can pickup the corresponding .CO […]
