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 […]
Zak Muscovitch for CIRA Board
It’s that time of year again when CIRA holds it’s elections for seats on the Board. As I never tire of relating: when I was on the CIRA Board, I got the opportunity to travel across the country and meet .CA domain holders from all walks of life. When the Board held open forums in […]
DOS Attacks and DNS: How to Stay Up If Your DNS Provider goes DOWN
[ The original article was a bit “wordy” and appears in its entirety after the page break. ] Nameservers and DNS services are one of the most popular attack vectors for Denial of Service Attacks. Since we wrote the original article, the types of attacks against DNS infrastructure have since bifurcated into two distinct types. […]
July 4 DNS Stats are wrong. Like really way off wrong.
Before anybody has a heart attack, please be advised that the July 4 DNS counts are spectacularly incorrect. We’re looking at it now. Sorry for any panic attacks.
.COM and .NET wholesale price goes up tomorrow, easyDNS doesn't.
Verisign is increasing the wholesale cost of .COM and .NET domains by 48 cents for .COM domains and 42 cents for .NET. easyDNS will absorbing the additional wholesale costs into existing pricing.
HST Comes into effect tomorrow in Canada
Starting July 1st we will be replacing the current GST with the government mandated HST for the following provinces at the following rates: Ontario: 13% British Columbia 12% Nova Scotia 15% Newfoundland 13% New Brunswick 13% Quebec 12.875% The way our systems will calculate this is by looking at the value of the “province” field […]
