We will be conducting a maintenance window to upgrade our core network on Wednesday March 15th 2006 @ 2:00am. The window should be brief, but in the event of complications we have scheduled from between 2:00am and 5:00am for possible service interruption to all servers on the 205.210.42.0/24 and 216.220.40.241/28 networks. During this period, connectivity […]
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China Top Level Domain news
There has been a remarkable lack of chatter today around domain policy circles, given the rather stunning announcement out of china that starting tomorrow, China will be launching its own Top Level Domain roots for the .COM, .NET TLDs so that “[Chinese] Internet users don’t have to surf the Web via the servers under the […]
NS6 added to nameserver cluster
NS6.EASYDNS.NET has been added to the nameserver cluster, this node is comprised of multiple load balanced servers behind a single IP and is running out of Rackspace.com and protected by their Preventier DDoS mitigation service. This nameserver is an addition to the existing cluster deployed across Prolexic’s Clean Pipe and our Q9 locations bringing further […]
Yahoo and AOL's paid email delivery system
An interesting turn of events surfaced over the weekend with AOL and Yahoo’s announced plans to charge a fraction of a cent for “preferred delivery” of email. Both companies will still accept unpaid email, but by paying the charges, senders will be able to bypass inbound spam filters and have their mail delivered directly to […]
MyPrivacy upgrades and new features
The MyPrivacy.ca whois-record-spamguard system has been upgraded to new hardware and now supports personalized whitelists. This means individual users can add their own whitelists, either email based or hostname based, which opens myprivacy.ca up to much more flexibility beyond protecting your whois records. An myprivacy.ca accounts are still free.
members interface maintenance January 18th 2006 at 1:00am
We will be shutting our primary web server down for a very breif maintenance on Wednesday January 18th 2006 at 1:00am EST. The maintenance should last between 5 and 15 minutes. This maintenance will impact the members interface.