NOTE: easyDNS reserves the right to publicly post any takedown request we receive. Any legal or public documents involving easyDNS may be (and often are) posted to our blog. Writing this post I fondly recall one of my favorite Simpson’s scenes, when Montgomery Burns is being committed to a mental institution against his will […]
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The price of freedom and the cost of a domain name
Please read the arstechnica article then continue on to our statement. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/02/secret-service-asks-for-shutdown-of-legit-website-over-user-content-godaddy-complies.ars Our Position For many people, a domain name is more than a piece of digital real-estate, it is their livelihood, their ability to express themselves freely and connect with others. Recently, GoDaddy removed a domain off of the Internet with no notice, no […]
Post mortem on the DDoS of Feb 13th
Our apologies for the delayed response. On Mon February 13th, what appears to be an attack on a number of financial companies (some of them easyDNS client) was launched by unknown sources. We launched our new mitigation and communication procedures immediately upon detection, and maintained regular updates during the course of the attack via our […]
Bill C-30… Awful Access (especially for ISPs)
Given our previous opposition to various legislative proposals aimed at the Internet such as our take on SOPA, the short lived Verisign Takedown Proposal, we would be remiss if we did not comment on Bill C-30, “Lawful Access”. I read it a couple nights ago and I think it’s one of the worst legislative proposals […]
DDoS attack – mitigation in progress [RESOLVED]
We have detected a DDoS attack in progress. We are alerting our upstream providers and mitigation procedures are going into effect. Our apologies in advance if we take a little more time to answer emails and such than we might otherwise This blog post will be updated as we get more information. —update 15:41 EST […]
Temporary Site Outage [Resolved]
We are currently experiencing a temporary site outage. While the easyDNS interface cannot be reached, this should not in any way affect our DNS or Mail services. For approximately 15 minutes this afternoon, our website was inaccessible. This was in no way related to any of our core services, and we do not expect that […]
