Not even sure why we did this other than “because we could”, but try this: Setup a txt record in your domain like this: host IN TXT “”v=twitterstatus1 txthost twitterid” And basically what happens is the last tweet from “twitterid” will be placed into the contents of a TXT record for “txthost” under your domain […]
DNS Usage Pricing: The final word.
Ok, we’ve done a lot of thinking about the DNS overage pricing, which is still forthcoming. So far we haven’t turned up billing on the heavy usage customers. We’ve had a lot of great feedback, overall people are pretty understanding. After taking the feedback into account and looking at our customer usage patterns, we are […]
Add a custom message to your .com or .net whois records
You can now add a custom message to your .COM or .NET whois records. Simply log into your members panel (this is on the new interface) and click on “whois” for your domain on the “Domain Information” line. Then, for .COM and .NET domains (we cannot do this for other domains because the registries control […]
An iPhone hack for dynamic DNS updates with easyDNS
File under neat. Gavin Brock posted a way to dynamically update your DNS for your (jailbroken) iPhone. This is the same Gavin Brock who wrote the DNS::EasyDNS Perl Module many years ago.
New website front end and new blog CMS launched
The new easyDNS.com website went live earlier today. So far, so good. As we’ve stated before, we are opposed to “flash cuts”, so we will not be moving all customer domains to the new member interface in one grand cataclysmic cutover. Instead, we ask that you become familiar with the new system, move a non-critical […]
Nameserver delegations: less is more.
Some of you may notice that under the new system, we are delegating new domains to two nameservers instead of the historical six. Under the old system, we used this setup, which historically came from having 6 stand-alone nameservers: ns1.easydns.com ns2.easydns.com ns3.easydns.org remote1.easydns.com remote2.easydns.com ns6.easydns.net We then folded all of the above into a couple […]
