Feeling left out of the web 2.0 “URL Shortener” hysteria, we’ve added a mostly useless “easyFrame”(tm) to the easyURL.net redirect service. The culmination of nearly two night’s worth of programming in front of the TV, and nearing 100 lines of PHP code, the easyFrame(tm) enables people to further perpetuate it’s marginal functionality via other social […]
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members.easydns.com was slow
Greetings, We were having some difficulty keeping load times under control on our members interface today, located at members.easydns.com. We have rectified the issue for the moment and are working diligently to ensure that we don’t run into this trouble in the future.
DNS usage counts back: May numbers borked
We’ve re-enabled access to viewing your DNS query counts online. Unfortunately, the May numbers are out of whack: you’ll see a large spike in your query counts between May 12 and May 19 which is actually each day’s total carried forward and added to the next. This was due to a parser bug caused by […]
Whois Privacy brings a lawsuit down on Registrar
Following on our explanation of why we do not offer whois masking here at easyDNS, we note tonight that Registrar Namecheap has been sued “over cybersquatting claims for a domain name registered under the NameCheap whois privacy services”. As we outlined in our original article: Whoever is listed as the Registrant in the domain’s whois […]
Comcast blocking catch-all wildcard e-mail addresses, and some advice..
Update: Catch-alls originating from EasyDNS to Comcast are now once-again unblocked. That being said, please minimize your usage of catch-all wildcard e-mail addresses where you can. It’s good practice! Original Post: Greetings, Comcast is currently blocking “catch-all” wildcard e-mail addresses originating from EasyDNS. If you have a wildcard e-mail address set up at EasyDNS, and […]
DNS Query counts now visible
As of tonight you may notice when you log into your member control panel a new item beside each of your domain names called “query usage”. This links you to a monthly histogram depicting the DNS query counts for the domain. Right now we are just compiling aggregate lookups across all RR types and it […]
