Overnight on October 24, 2011 between the hours of approximately 12:55am and 2:55am ET the NS1 and NS2 anycast constellations came under a DDoS Attack. The attack was a combined syn flood and DNS flood which impaired the following anycast constellations to varying degrees: ns1.easydns.com/remote1.easydns.com (a.k.a dns1.easydns.com) ns2.easydns.com/remote2.easydns.com (a.k.a dns2.easydns.net) The attack primarily impacted […]
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Monday, Oct 24 DNS resolution issues [resolved]
We are currently (as of 2:45 AM Eastern) experiencing resolution issues related to some servers in our dns1.easydns.com and dns2.easydns.net anycast clusters. These issues may be causing resolution issues for some customers. Our systems group is aware of the issue and is working hard on getting things back up to par. Updates will be made […]
Saturday, Oct 22, 2011 – No Phone Support
Due to an unexpected scheduling conflict, our support team is unfortunately not able to offer phone support today. We will still be answering emails as per usual; if you have any support requests, please send them to support@easydns.com
Verisign domain takedown proposal very worrisome.
Under a proposed Verisign initiative, all .COM/.NET domains exist at the pleasure of the United States government. Verisign just released an overview of their proposed “Anti-Abuse Domain Use Policy” Under ICANN’s Registry Services Evaluation Process. The program’s chief aim is to provide a takedown mechanism of malicious websites distributing malware. In itself, not a bad […]
Emergency downtime for URL forwarding [completed]
In an effort to improve the performance of the URL forwarding services for our customers, we will need to temporarily bring down the server responsible for URL forwarding for maintenance. Downtime is expected to last between 10-20 minutes, and shall be taking place on Wednesday, October 5th, at 2am EST. During this time frame, URL […]
Try Enterprise DNS for a month, on us.
On friday we announced that our GeoDNS service had gone into βeta. Hidden in the fine print of that post was our trial offer on Enterprise DNS. We figured it would be weasle-ish to force people into a paid upgrade to Enterprise DNS to get access to a beta feature, hence the free trial. Since […]
