Shortly after last year’s first Ethereum Name Service (ENS) Workshop in London, UK; ENS Working Group lead Nick Johnson released an implementation of ENS integration for the ropsten test network. Since then, the ENS WG has been working with the .XYZ registry and easyDNS to implement live ENS integration for .XYZ domains on the Ethereum […]
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New Book: Managing Mission Critical Domains & DNS
It’s been a long road, over four years, but my new book Managing Mission Critical Domains & DNS finally published a few weeks ago. It actually dropped on June 30, 2018 which was also my 51st birthday. Funny how things work out like that. The idea behind the book was to provide a unifying overview around […]
0 Confirmations & Now accepting Bitcoin Cash as a payment method.
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, […]
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 […]
