Feeling left out of the web 2.0 “URL Shortener” hysteria, we’ve added a mostly useless “easyFrame”(tm) to the easyURL.net redirect service. The culmination of nearly two night’s worth of programming in front of the TV, and nearing 100 lines of PHP code, the easyFrame(tm) enables people to further perpetuate it’s marginal functionality via other social […]
Of Interest
Do you really need to register your name under .tel?
We’ve turned up .tel registrations now that they’ve gone realtime and the initial registry implosion has stabilized. You may have noticed a distinct lack of urgency from us to light a fire under your keester to go register your name under .tel right now before somebody else takes it. As we outlined previously, we find […]
New easyDNS Member feedback survey
Many of you may not know that we have an ongoing member feedback survey where we ask for your thoughts and impressions of using easyDNS. We try to make it as unobtrusive as possible, and for each respondent we make a $5 donation to a charity of your choosing (World Wildlife Fund, Children’s Wish Fund […]
Why we do not offer Whois masking at easyDNS
Update: we have since flip-flopped on this. Please See: The Official easyDNS Flip-Flop on Whois Privacy. We get asked this a alot: Why do you guys not offer whois masking or whois contact privacy? The brief background on this is: whenever you register a domain name, your contact details are published in a publicly visible […]
What part of “blanket permission to download” do Michael Moore’s lawyers not get?
Michael Moore released his latest film Slacker Uprising for free, over the web (note: don’t click on that link if you live outside of the US or Canada or his lawyers will yell at us again). On the download page for the film Mr. Moore has this to say: “I’m giving you my blanket permission […]
Ten Years of easyDNS
10 years ago on this day, we removed the password block on easyDNS.com and sent out a couple of innocuous email announcements to the PHP and Mysql mailing lists announcing that we had developed a DNS management system using php and mysql and it was now open for business. We had three nameservers, 1 in […]
