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 […]
Of Interest
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 […]
easyURL adds "FEDEX" tracking widget
Trivial but handy: I found myself having to email out some Fedex tracking ID’s today, so I thought what would make it easy would be a way to create a redirect to the Fedex tracking page for that ID without having to visit a URL shortener site to create the redirect. That’s the core idea […]
easyDNS announces Guaranteed Lookup Privacy for easyWHOiS.com
In light of the recent ICANN advisory on domain lookup frontrunning we’ve made the guarantee that your domain lookups on easyWhois have and always will be, private. What is domain lookup front running? It is when an unscrupulous operator between you and a domain lookup tool, such as a whois lookup website, perhaps even the […]
Don't forget to vote in the CIRA Board elections
I just finished voting in the Canadian Internet Registration Authority Board of Directors election. This year’s election is the first under the new election process and reformed membership structure that was ushered in last year at the special member’s meeting in Toronto. I have mixed feelings about the new membership reform, having spent a good […]
easyURL enables bookmarking and tagging with openid
You probably didn’t know we operated a URL shortening service at easyURL.net, which has some nice features like being able to create your own short label for a shortened URL and tracking of access stats. After awhile I noticed that I was also using it as a pseudo-bookmarking mechanism, but of course it required that […]
