So after the big clusterf*** with easyDNS being falsely blamed for taking down wikileaks, somebody posts the inevitable question “Would easyDNS take wikileaks DNS“? and from there makes what I think is a dubious extension: by NOT taking them we’re doing the same thing as “taking them down”. What I find dubious about all this […]
Of Interest
Wikileaks “takedown” fiasco underscores pathetic state of internet “journalism”
[ Updated Dec 4 and Dec 7, see “Further Reading” section at end of post] I’ve commented before that I’m amazed at how fast bad information travels on the internet, but this morning it got pretty ridiculous. Looks like wikileaks was the subject of a DOS attack last night, and their DNS provider who was […]
WikiLeaks….NOT an easyDNS domain…everyDNS: NOT easyDNS
Woke up this morning to some upset comments on the blog calling us out for “terminating Wikileaks DNS” and politicizing domains. A quick google search shows some articles spreading, obviously written by half wit drones with no simple fact-checking abilities at all (hello, whois lookup anybody?) including the line “But the biggest damage to WikiLeaks […]
First they came for the file-sharing domains…
[easyDNS did not terminate wikileaks DNS, that was everyDNS. See this ] (Background: as you may or may not be aware, earlier in the year the US Department of Homeland Security began seizing domain names of various filesharing websites. Suddenly the agency tasked with protecting the United States from further terrorist attacks was now seizing […]
Warning: Unsolicited phone calls pretending to be "tech support"
We got this by way of William Porquet, reposted with permission as we think some of our users should be aware of this. It looks like an overseas boiler room operation is targeting users, the call reported below was received in Toronto, Canada: The other day one of my older friends in Toronto received a […]
Paul Graham in Forbes
I was surprised and impressed to see that Paul Graham made the cover of Forbes magazine which profiled his Y Combinator incubator. Online edition of the story is available here. We also interviewed Paul Graham in an early edition of our “Who Uses easyDNS” segment available here.
