A bunch of years ago I had an idea for an espionage/action/thriller story where a bunch of mercenaries planned a coup d’etat against the regimes of either Columbia or Cameroon for the sole reason of gaining control over the country’s top-level domain registry and making billions off of typo-squatting .COM. Truth did kind of mimic […]
What's New
New website launch postponed until April 12
We are pushing back the launch of the new website and user interface until April 12, for a few reasons – not the least of which is that we will be shorthanded through the month of March on a few fronts. (March break, time off with the kids, Confoo, etc). What we will do next […]
DNS usage quotas: before you panic
I’ve fielded a handful of queries from members about the coming DNS usage quotas. Some have looked at the “query usage” links beside their domain names and are surprised at the numbers they are seeing. One thing to be aware of is that we’ve discovered that the January numbers were tabulated incorrectly and are too […]
Big Changes Coming to easyDNS
We will soon be launching our new member interface, a ground up rewrite of the current members.easydns.com website. It has been a long time in coming, like all complex projects, it always goes over-budget and takes longer than expected. The current user interface works, but it’s pretty stale. There are so many layers of upgrades, […]
DNS Query counts now visible
As of tonight you may notice when you log into your member control panel a new item beside each of your domain names called “query usage”. This links you to a monthly histogram depicting the DNS query counts for the domain. Right now we are just compiling aggregate lookups across all RR types and it […]
easyDNS soft launches DNSresolvers.com
With the ramifications of the DNS cache poisoning bug beginning to sink in and the first exploit code being published today, we are anticipating an accelerating number of queries from our members about this and what they can do to ensure their own DNS caching resolvers are safe to use. We can tell you about […]