At the time we posted Whatever Happened To Due Process we were unaware that we were just one of many registrars receiving these notices from the London (UK) Police. We have since been made aware that this was part of a larger initiative against the BitTorrent space as a whole, and that most if not […]
Of Interest
Whatever Happened to "Due Process" ?
This morning I received the following email: Classification: NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED Dear Sir or Madam, Re: Website domain name suspension request #2 On the 24th September 2013, EasyDNS Technologies was emailed a domain suspension request for the following domain(s) that to date we have not received a reply nor seen action taken: [redacted].com [IP redacted] […]
Scam Alert: Phone calls pretending to be from CIRA
We have received an alert from CIRA (who oversees the .CA namespace) that a boiler room is calling people using the CIRA name with the objective of gaining remote access to the recipient’s computer: Dear Registrars, CIRA would like to notify all Registrars of a recent phone call security scam using the CIRA name that […]
Office Phone System Update.
We are currently in the process of transferring our office to a new phone system. As part of this we have had to port our 4165358672 number to a new provider. The port is scheduled to happen today. We have things configured on our end to ensure the number works as quickly as possible once […]
Announcing the Toronto Bitcoin Summit 2013
We’re thrilled to be a part of the Toronto Bitcoin Summit 2013, the inaugural event to be hosted at The Academy of the Impossible. The Academy is an open source social enterprise operated by Metaviews Media Management. Many of you may know Jesse Hirsh, a longtime media maven, hacker, broadcaster and visionary who is the […]
This is what your registrar sees when your domain is seized under a sealed warrant.
We’ve commented before on the ramifications of US agencies operating via registry operators to seize domain names. What it effectively does is put all domain names registered under .com/.net/.org/.biz under the jurisdiction of US law, for better or for worse. Although I have never heard of the domain name that was seized (it looks like […]
