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 […]
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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 You can switch right away or wait until November 1st when it will replace the current and somewhat outdated theme.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 – […]
MAINTENANCE WINDOW: Friday Sep 2, 2016 8:00pm ET
Scheduled Maintenance Window and Affected Services The easyDNS Control Panel will undergo a scheduled maintenance on Friday, September 2, 2016 starting at 8:00pm Eastern Time. During this maintenance window, the control panel will be unavailable, which means you’ll have no ability to update your domains. Migration Details Date: Friday, September 2, 2016 – Saturday, September […]
ANAME records now support IPv6
Our root domain alias records (which we call ANAME records) now support IPv6 addresses. Any underlying AAAA records at the target host will automatically be added to the zone. In case you haven’t heard about ANAME records, here’s a quick explanation: normally you cannot create a CNAME or ‘alias’ record for a domain’s apex or […]
