The following is the easyDNS response to ICANN’ public comment period on GNSO Privacy & Proxy Services Accreditation Issues Working Group Initial Report. The public comment period is open until July 7, 2015. We strongly urge you to make your voice known by signing the petition over at Save Domain Privacy. I submit these comments […]
Of Interest
Why We Will Not Be Registering easyDNS.SUCKS
Similar to how it’s getting harder these days to differentiate actual news from The Onion satires, reality takes on a somewhat surreal timbre when it starts to imitate your April Fool’s gags from yesteryear… In 2011 we joked “easyDNS To Launch .SUX TLD”, in which we posited a thinly veiled extortion racket to goad squeamish […]
An Open Letter to Bittorrent and File Sharing Sites
Since our successful wrangling with another ICANN registrar over the rights of domain name holders and the responsibilities of registrars when transferring their names, we have unsurprisingly become a “goto” registrar for bittorrent and filesharing sites. I wanted to clarify the easyDNS stance on this because I think the entire filesharing space has a limited […]
Trial Date Set in the Matter of Andy Lehrer vs easyDNS
A trial date has been set in the matter of Andy Lehrer vs easyDNS. Recall, this is the case where we were presented with a takedown request for some pages on causepimps.ca. We responded that “we don’t do that unless you have a legal basis, like a court order”, and then he went and sued […]
Nameserver Operators Need the Ability to "Disavow" Domains
Yesterday’s DDoS attack against DNSimple brought to light a longstanding need for DNS nameserver operators to have an ability to unilaterally repudiate domains from their nameservers. The domains under attack started off on DNSMadeEasy, migrated off to DNSimple and took up residence there for about 12 hours, causing a lot of grief to DNSimple and […]
Syrian Electronic Army Hijacks Domain From Registrar – Hacks 700+ Websites
Second time in a week a high profile domain name has been hijacked at it’s domain registrar and used to redirect it’s DNS. First it was craigslist.org, which was hijacked at Network Solutions a few days ago, now the Syrian Electronic Army hijacked gigya.com – a user tracking platform, which they parlayed into the ability […]