Of Interest

blackholes.uceb.org was an antispam RBL that shut down in 2008, but as with all RBLs, they tend to find their way into mail server configs and then ossify there. It looks like whoever ran uceb.org decided that two years was enough and to let the domain lapse. Yesterday, the domain’s registrar put the domain in […]

Our URL shortening service easyURL.net is now CLOSED to the general public. Only easyDNS members in good standing with at least one active domain in their account may use this service. To enable your access log into your easyDNS account and under your utilities module click on enable easyURL.net and then you’re done. Happy shortening. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]