Starting July 1st we will be replacing the current GST with the government mandated HST for the following provinces at the following rates: Ontario: 13% British Columbia 12% Nova Scotia 15% Newfoundland 13% New Brunswick 13% Quebec 12.875% The way our systems will calculate this is by looking at the value of the “province” field […]
What's New
Greylisting control now available
Like most ISPs, we’ve been employing the tactic of greylisting to cut down on the amount of spam and viruses we get and forward to our customer email addresses via their mailmaps or backup mail spools.
Instant DNS Activation & force 301 headers on URL forwarding
Following on the heels of our earlier unveiling of tweet2txt, I thought I’d mention 2 new features of the new platform that I think our members will agree are long welcome additions: Instant DNS activation for new domains and optional 301 Redirects for URL forwarding.
DNS Usage Pricing: The final word.
Ok, we’ve done a lot of thinking about the DNS overage pricing, which is still forthcoming. So far we haven’t turned up billing on the heavy usage customers. We’ve had a lot of great feedback, overall people are pretty understanding. After taking the feedback into account and looking at our customer usage patterns, we are […]
Add a custom message to your .com or .net whois records
You can now add a custom message to your .COM or .NET whois records. Simply log into your members panel (this is on the new interface) and click on “whois” for your domain on the “Domain Information” line. Then, for .COM and .NET domains (we cannot do this for other domains because the registries control […]
Nameserver delegations: less is more.
Some of you may notice that under the new system, we are delegating new domains to two nameservers instead of the historical six. Under the old system, we used this setup, which historically came from having 6 stand-alone nameservers: ns1.easydns.com ns2.easydns.com ns3.easydns.org remote1.easydns.com remote2.easydns.com ns6.easydns.net We then folded all of the above into a couple […]
