What is your registrar doing with your parked domains? Well if we’re your registrar, we’re just parking them. Optionally, we enable you to customize your parked pages in a variety of handy ways. But if we’re not your registrar, who knows? Most other registrars monetize their own customers’ parked domains by running pay-per-click ads on […]
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Email relay delays – [resolved]
First off, for more information about what greylisting is, please go to the following URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greylisting Today we experienced an issue with the greylisting service we have implemented upon our mailservers. Email that was being relayed to our mail forwarding servers was being deferred as the greylisting service was temporarily not accepting new email. As […]
Warning: Unsolicited phone calls pretending to be "tech support"
We got this by way of William Porquet, reposted with permission as we think some of our users should be aware of this. It looks like an overseas boiler room operation is targeting users, the call reported below was received in Toronto, Canada: The other day one of my older friends in Toronto received a […]
Paul Graham in Forbes
I was surprised and impressed to see that Paul Graham made the cover of Forbes magazine which profiled his Y Combinator incubator. Online edition of the story is available here. We also interviewed Paul Graham in an early edition of our “Who Uses easyDNS” segment available here.
New alerts mailing list
Some users have expressed an interest in being notified via email whenever we post something to the blog, i.e. into the “Status” channel. With this in mind we’ve setup such a list, which you can opt-into via the signup form at the blog, upper right hand menu.
Secondary DNS TSIG Functionality now in beta.
The ability to secure your zone transfers via TSIG Transaction Signatures for domains using us for secondary DNS is now available as beta on the new interface. See this help doc for more details. Transaction Signatures (TSIG) are a method of securing zone transfers between your primary nameserver and us using a secret key as […]