With the rest of the world, we are saddened to learn of Steve Jobs’ passing. Everyone at easyDNS feels a special connection to Apple and its products. We use Apple products everyday to build the websites, write the code and keep our business humming. Steve Jobs was a creative genius who showed millions that technology […]
Of Interest
The new TLD Buyers-Strike Starts Now
Today is the day, .xxx sunrise begins. Here’s an offer we should all refuse: Wanna protect your good name from having somebody erect a pornographic website on yourname.xxx? Then fork over $300 and you’ll be “protected” against that happening for 10 years. It’s called a non-adult sunrise blocking registration and the .xxx registry expects those […]
easyIPv6.com and the #IPv6day DNS Hosting Promo
June 8, 2011 is World IPv6 Day. Most of our nameservers have been dual-stacked for IPv6 for a few months now, the exception being dns2, which is the Prolexic deployed anycast constellation. So we’ve already been running IPv6 enabled nameservers, and we actually hung ourselves up a little ahead of IPv6day by creating a weird […]
The check's in the mail, you say?
As many of you are likely aware, the Canadian Union of Postal Workers has announced a possible strike, starting Thursday June 2nd at 11:59pm. If this occurs, then cheques sent to easyDNS through the regular post will be delayed until the strike is resolved. To avoid any possible interruption to your service due to delayed […]
easyIPCalc: The (free) IPv4 Subnet Calculator App for your iPhone
Some companies put out pens with their logo on it, or baseball hats nobody will ever wear, or mousepads made from toxic sludge. We prefer to put out useful stuff. Today we are very pleased to announce the release of easyIPCalc, a free IPv4 Subnet Calculator iPhone app. It was coded by Marija Solaja […]
DNS Speeds Debunked
A popular “metric” in the space are benchmarks depicting speeds of DNS lookups. Sales guys love to tell you “your existing DNS is slow” and that theirs is fast.