Before the holidays we took a look at a bunch of Bitcoin payments we’ve received and saw that the transaction fees were in the area of 10% of the gross amount of the transaction. That seems high, and while we have every confidence that this is a short term phenomenon – namely, Segwit2x and/or Lightning, […]
What's New
Ethereum payments now accepted for all services
We’re happy to announce that as of this morning we’ve added ethereum as a payment method on easyDNS. To our knowledge, we are the first and only ICANN accredited registrar in the world, CIRA certified here in Canada, eh – to accept this thriving new crypto-currency as a payment method. To celebrate we’re also putting in […]
CAA Records now enabled
Earlier this year the CA/Browser Forum voted to make Certificate Authority Authorization (CAA) mandatory for all Certificate Authorities. What this means that domains will need to assert via DNS records (the CAA DNS RRType) which CA’s are permitted to issue certificates for your domains. Think of it as “sort of like SPF, but for SSL/TLS certs”. CAA […]
update of Outbound Mail service
We are in the process of upgrading our easySMTP: Outbound Mail system to a new server cluster, which will require a change of the public IP from 64.68.201.141 to 64.68.203.29. Authentication information will be maintained and we will be pointing the mailout.easydns.com so no changes will be needed to move to the new system and […]
Upgrade of easyMail outbound server
We are in the process of upgrading our easymail mailout system to a new server cluster, which will require a change of the public IP from 64.68.201.169 to 64.68.200.34.
Dynamic DNS supports creation of IPv6 records
AAAA records can now be created or updated via DYN update calls. For the ‘myip’ parameter in the DYN update call, you can now pass an IPv6 address. Be sure to escape special characters like colons with %3A and forward slashes with %2F as necessary in IPv6 addresses. For example, the IPv6 address 2400:cb00:2049:1::a29f:1835 would […]
