Greetings, If you’re a regular user of our easySMTP service at “mailout.easydns.com” you’ve probably noticed that it’s been sketchy for the last couple of days, usually during peak times in the middle of the day! The first part of the problem we’ve identified; we have had a couple of power users inadvertently pound our servers. […]
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.CO domains in, .TEL domains are out.
As is customary here when it comes to new top-level domain rollouts, we’ve added support for .CO domains now that the registry has launched real-time live registrations. As we mentioned in previous posts, we are recommending that if you operate a serious net presence under .COM, you should if you can pickup the corresponding .CO […]
Zak Muscovitch for CIRA Board
It’s that time of year again when CIRA holds it’s elections for seats on the Board. As I never tire of relating: when I was on the CIRA Board, I got the opportunity to travel across the country and meet .CA domain holders from all walks of life. When the Board held open forums in […]
mailout.easydns.com blip
Greetings, We had a brief blip on the outbound mail system for “legacy” retail users at the address mailout.easydns.com. We have restarted the responsible service and mail should be flowing again without issue. Thanks for your patience. [UPDATE – September 1 @ 1:40pm] – This issue has been resolved. More details about what steps are […]
"Greylisting" on the new mail system
Greetings, The “Greylisting” service on the new mail system has been disabled for the moment as we troubleshoot some odd results we have been getting with it. Customers should expect a little bit more spam, but we hope to have the weirdness ironed out by this weekend. [UPDATE – September 1 @ 1:39pm] – Greylisting […]
DOS Attacks and DNS: How to Stay Up If Your DNS Provider goes DOWN
[ The original article was a bit “wordy” and appears in its entirety after the page break. ] Nameservers and DNS services are one of the most popular attack vectors for Denial of Service Attacks. Since we wrote the original article, the types of attacks against DNS infrastructure have since bifurcated into two distinct types. […]
