We’ve been getting an increasing number of queries regarding the rollout of DNSSEC, the security extensions for DNS. We have been testing DNSSEC internally and plan to have it available for members ahead of the key deployments this year. Some of the deployments are as follows: .CA plans to sign the root on March 31, […]
Of Interest
The Guardian gets it wrong….again.
The Guardian UK seems to be hell-bent on putting my company out of business. After joining the throng of media outlets mistakenly reporting last week that we unplugged wikileaks, today they reported easyDNS as one of the companies knocked offline by DOS attacks carried out by Anonymous. As per usual, this is wrong. We have […]
WikiLeaks.ORG DNS is NOT with easyDNS (so far)
Just in case you were not confused enough as to whether we unplugged wikileaks, helped them get back online; or had unprotected “relations” with Julian Assange (we didn’t), the story “broke” this morning that WikiLeaks.org was back, due to help from easyDNS: Access to Wikileaks.org has returned after members of its consortium worked with Mark […]
Timeline of an Epic #FAIL: The WikiLeaks Takedown Fiasco
Things have been moving so fast over the last five days I haven’t had a chance to come up for air. This entire ordeal has completely taken over my life, just when I think things are calming down, some gigantic media outlet comes out with another story about Wikileaks that includes the erroneous “fact” that […]
Concerns around Wikileaks DNS for easyDNS Members
I’ve received a few emails and comments to the blog expressing perfectly understandable concern around easyDNS providing DNS for wikileaks.ch (what’s more, wikileaks.nl has also just added our DNS to their nameserver delegation). Please excuse us for not adequately clarifying the situation earlier to address these concerns. The stability and reliability of our systems and […]
easyDNS added to Wikileaks.ch DNS delegation
[ Update Dec 5th 5:45pm EST: At the moment we’re part of the delegation for wikileaks.ch and were told to expect the .org delegation, however it is now looking more nebulous. There is some confusion around control over the wikileaks.ORG domain and who has it. To be honest, it turns out we are not dealing […]
