We’ve had customers asking us for a simple SPF wizard to help generate Sender Policy Framework (SPF) data. There are a few out there, but we have set up one at wizard.easySPF.com or spfwizard.com. As we iron out any usability bugs we will roll out some integration hooks to make it easier to pull the […]
What's New
.CA registration only service rolled out at $19
Happy Victoria Day weekend, eh? We’re marking the holiday by filling a gap in our service offering. When .CA rolled out, we wanted to capitalize on our position as a premiere DNS provider by bundling our world class DNS hosting with our newfound status as a Registrar (this was very new to us at the […]
We are now tracking the Spamhaus PBL
We are now tracking the Spamhaus The Policy Block list. This list allows service providers to define blocks of IP addresses where e-mail should not originate from. This service should reduce spam and load on our mail systems. From the summary at Spamhaus: The Spamhaus PBL is a DNSBL database of end-user IP address ranges […]
Greylisting for email forwarded to Hotmail and MSN
Over the last few months, there has been a steady increase in spam and virus emails. Due to the nature of our mail forwarding service, this sometimes leads to ISPs and free email services being forwarded a large number of “junk” email. In the past, easyDNS has always strived to limit the amount of filtering […]
Server monitoring now in beta
We are pleased to announce that server monitoring is now available for beta users. This feature is being rolled out under the DNS-plus service level and will be included as a component of that package. Server monitoring allows members to setup service tests on their hostname (A) records and our system will check those services […]
SPF checking on inbound mail forwarding now out of beta
We have promoted SPF checking on inbound mail forwarding from beta to normal production. All members can now optionally enable SPF checking on inbound mail destined for their domains via the “email” settings in their domain options. If the SPF validation equates to hardfail for a domain with SPF validation enabled, our mail servers will […]