When I posted about the bodog.com domain takedown the last thing I expected was for it to have “gone viral” the way it did. Given everything this company has been through and all the issues we’ve commented on (SOPA, Bill C-30, Elephant Snuff, Jotform), this one took the cake and was the most read article […]
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Verisign seizes .com domain registered via foreign Registrar on behalf of US Authorities.
Yesterday Forbes broke the news that Canadian Calvin Ayre and partners who operate the Bodog online gambling empire have been indicted in the U.S., and in a blog post Calvin Ayre confirmed that their bodog.com domain had been seized by homeland security. As reported in Forbes (hat tip to The Domains for the cite), According to […]
The Official easyDNS Domain Takedown Policy
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 […]
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 […]
