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.CA Registry Transition Information
On October 12th, 2010, the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) will transition from the current Registry platform to a new platform. Along with the cutover to this modern platform, CIRA is also bringing in some changes to domain policies and procedures aimed at simplifying and standardizing .CA domains with the rest of the domain industry. […]
Changements de Registre .CA (ACEI)
Informations à propos des changements du Registre .CA Le 12 octobre 2010, l’Autorité canadienne pour les enregistrements Internet (ACEI) rendra public une nouvelle version de son système de gestion des noms de domaine ainsi que des politiques et procédures simplifiées. Séquence de changements principaux Le 5 octobre 2010: un arret aux transferts de noms de […]
On Bell or Rogers and Missing email? Check your "Spam" Folder
We’ve noticed an uptick in users from Bell, Sympatico and Rogers reporting “missing” email via email forwarding. Further investigation reveals that the emails in question have been misfiled by Hotmail or Yahoo into their spam folder (Rogers and Bell outsource their mail offerings to Yahoo and Hotmail respectively). If this is becoming a problem for […]
Ok, here's what happened (with that DNS timeout thing this morning)
This morning around 8:30am EST monitoring services around the world, things like DNSStuff, Pingdom, etc began reporting DNS timeout errors for easyDNS back to their respective users. Oddly, most of the time a human check (like trying to get to a website in a web browser) would succeed. Not always. To compound the weirdness, none […]
Update to nameserver resolution issue
Update: 11:29 EST None of our data centers have reported anything looking like attack traffic, DOS activity or anything other than normal DNS query traffic coming in. We traced most of the DNS timeouts back to San Jose, which has servers in both the NS1 and NS2 anycast strands, we have removed San Jose from […]
