Last summer, Geotrust added a new intermediate CA to their chain of authority to allow for 2048bit keys. This CA would not have been included in server configurations that came out prior to July 2010. The result is that some older servers which haven’t had that CA added experience trust issues for browsers trying to […]
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DNSSEC now available in Beta
DNSSEC is now available in beta across all service levels (on the new platform). You need to enable the “beta” flag under your Personal Info section and then after you do the DNSSEC link will appear in the “Advanced” line of the Tools tab in your Domain Overview module. There are still some items we […]
Holiday Hours
In lieu of today, 21 February, being a statutory holiday in Ontario [Canada] our support hours will be from 9am EST to 5pm EST..
Additional anycast constellations added to all DNS hosting accounts
We’re happy to announce that all DNS hosting accounts are having an additional nameserver / DNS anycast cluster added to the mix. (Our nameserver deployments are described here) For DNS Hosting level of service, we’ve added dns3.easydns.ca, which is five nodes in the following locations: Seattle Chicago Washington Singapore Frankfurt And for DNS Pro we’ve […]
New "registration" scam that's going around
Normally we don’t post a blog announcement about the various scams going around because, let’s face it, there are just too many. But in this case, we’re making an exception because this is a targeted scam aimed directly at domain owners – aka Our Clients. We’ve received more than a couple of calls from users […]
easyDNS and IPv6 Deployment
We’re getting a lot of questions on this, and you may find this hard to believe but it seems like some people are getting stirred up by the media reports on the imminent IPv4 depletion. IPv4 depletion isn’t as huge a deal as some media outlets make it out to be. It’s not like peak […]
