Some of us at easyDNS are Rogers clients at home, and we noticed service was down. A bit of noodling shows that they seem to be having some issues with their DNS resolvers. We’re not an ISP but we do provide free DNS resolvers to the internet for folks who want it, so if you’re […]
Of Interest
Does “ad retargeting” now track your real world movements?
[ This is an email I sent to the Berkman center Project VRM list a week or so ago. I am still getting the “Trump Tower” ads everywhere I go on the internet in my main web browser. ] Ad retargeting is when google (and others) can target the ads based on your prior […]
How to Leave easyDNS
[ If you’re interested in the backstory to this post, read on, if you want to skip straight to how to get the hell out here, skip down to How To Leave easyDNS ] I have been listening to Doc Searls’ The Intention Economy lately, it is an amazing book for a number of reasons […]
Workaround for switching off of Godaddy
We tread a fine line today as we pride ourselves in not chasing ambulances here. As we’ve pointed out before in our “DNS and DDOS attacks: how to stay up when your DNS provider goes down“, DDoS attacks suck and it’s the last reason we want to gain customers. But we are experiencing higher than […]
14 years of easyDNS and Four Core Values
easyDNS is 14 years old today! What a ride it’s been. We started the day on July 31st, 1998 as 3 founders, with no dependents and 0 customers. By the end of the day we had one dependent (co-founder John Schmidt’s son was born during the day), and 0 customers. And by the end of […]
Ethics of the Fathers and our First Day in the New Office!
Today is our first day with the entire team in the new office! We’re in 2 days ahead of schedule and the entire move squad, Arnon, Erol, Evan and especially Alex did amazing on logistics while Ranko and his girlfriend Maria pulled a rabbit out of a hat and configured a complete, ground up setup […]
