I was away when the big announcement came out. The news was, more or less, “US GOVERNMENT RELINQUISHES CONTROL OF THE INTERNET!!!!!” and I put it in all caps and underlined and with a lot of !!!! because the people who are busily talking about it in that context are typically newbie type half-wits, or […]
Of Interest
Definitive Proof ICANN's New Whois Verification Works
One of my own websites just got knocked offline by that new ICANN Whois Accuracy Program we told you about a few weeks ago. Recall that it’s a new policy which requires you to explicitly verify your contact info if you modify your whois record. Also, I forgot to mention this, if your email address […]
7 Great Web Hosting Screwings To Watch Out For
[ This is a reprint of the “Why Choose easyWEB” page from over on, you know, easyWEB ] Why easyWEB? While we may be latecomers to the web hosting space, in the course of helping you manage your domains and DNS for over 15 years we’ve seen pretty well every trick in the book, […]
YOU have a moral obligation to use crypto.
Today is The Day We Fight Back, a global initiative to send a message to our overlords that we’re not thrilled about being spied on, subject to mass surveillance and basically living in an Orwellian nightmare. Ordinarily we’re not big “joiners” or “petition pushers”, we think taking action has more efficacy. However, this is in […]
As Deadly as a DDoS: ICANN Unleashes the Whois Accuracy Program
More effective than a botnet, more sweeping than a Denial-of-Service attack, ICANN has devised a deadly Weapon of Mass Destruction that can instantly render a entire online presence persona-non-grata regardless of how much redundancy, mitigation muscle-power or firewalls a hapless defender has deployed, this latest attack vector can take it all away, not with one […]
Know Your Domain Right
(Originally a guest post written for Techdirt) When I first got into this business I frequently wondered why the domain-policy mailing lists I was getting involved in attracted a lot of activist types. Over the years it became apparent to me very quickly, that in an emerging era of global communications and transparency (what Anthony […]
