On Friday a large chunk of the internet went off the air when Cloudflare apparently fat-fingered a routing update and sent all of their global traffic to a single POP, vaporizing it almost instantly. This affected their DNS service, and of course, as everybody knows, when your DNS is gone, so are you. At least […]
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Canada’s BTLR is a Blueprint for Regulating Internet Content
(Feb 9, 2020 This post has had correction appended) In June 2018 the Canadian federal government initiated a review of the Telecommunications and Broadcasting Acts with the intent of getting guidance on how best to integrate the realities of the internet and global communications into the existing legislation. The project overview page with associated timeline […]
easyDNS: Social Justice Pricing Goes Into Effect Today
Background: Owing to its nature as a hierarchical inverted tree, the DNS system is problematic in that it imposes a pseudo-scientific hegemony based on culturally unfounded technological determinism which constrains the labeling narratives for disadvantaged classes of people and devices. DNS names, web addresses, Qtypes and Class Values are social constructs, those who initially formalized […]
Updated Member Interface
If you’ve logged into your easyDNS member area recently, you got an option to switch to the updated theme already. You can switch right away or wait until November 1st when it will replace the current and somewhat outdated theme. Why The Update? Partially the update came about because of the new design of the easydns.com […]
Dynamic DNS supports creation of IPv6 records
AAAA records can now be created or updated via DYN update calls. For the ‘myip’ parameter in the DYN update call, you can now pass an IPv6 address. Be sure to escape special characters like colons with %3A and forward slashes with %2F as necessary in IPv6 addresses. For example, the IPv6 address 2400:cb00:2049:1::a29f:1835 would […]
Holiday Hours
Please note that our office is CLOSED Christmas Day, Sunday 25 December 2016, and New Year’s Day, Sunday 1 January 2017. Our telephone support hours over the holidays: Monday 26 December 2016 – 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM EST. Tuesday 27 December 2016 – 8:30 AM to 6:00 PM EST. Wednesday 28 December 2016 – […]
