The number and variations of “fake domain” type emails are on the rise and carrying more malicious payloads. Fake ICANN “Compliance” emails One set making the rounds are variants of fake ICANN “compliance” emails such as the one pasted below: Dear Domain Owner, Our system has detected that your domain: {example}.com is being used for spamming […]
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Dynamic DNS supports creation of IPv6 records
AAAA records can now be created or updated via DYN update calls. For the ‘myip’ parameter in the DYN update call, you can now pass an IPv6 address. Be sure to escape special characters like colons with %3A and forward slashes with %2F as necessary in IPv6 addresses. For example, the IPv6 address 2400:cb00:2049:1::a29f:1835 would […]
Holiday Hours
Please note that our office is CLOSED Christmas Day, Sunday 25 December 2016, and New Year’s Day, Sunday 1 January 2017. Our telephone support hours over the holidays: Monday 26 December 2016 – 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM EST. Tuesday 27 December 2016 – 8:30 AM to 6:00 PM EST. Wednesday 28 December 2016 – […]
DDoS attack against an easyWeb server
We are experiencing a DDoS attack against one of our easyWeb web-hosting servers, so some clients may experience slowness or intermittent down time on their sites as we try to mitigate this. Our systems people are working on restoring service as quickly as we can and we will update this post as more information becomes […]
Sender Rewrite Scheme now added to EasyDNS email forwarding
We would like to announce that we have implemented the Sender Rewrite Scheme, or SRS, on our mail forwarding services. This is designed to remedy the increasingly prevelant problem with SPF enforcement breaking email forwarding services from any provider, including ourselves. The SPF protocol allows domain administrators to specify which mailservers are authorised to send […]
Introducing "Fake News", The Fifth Horseman of the Internet Apocalypse
VP-Elect Pence issuing execution proclamation. The fifth horseman of the internet apocalypse is here. It changed the course of the election. It’s enabling Russia to control our minds. Behold the spectre of “Fake News” …and what helps “fake news” sites undermine our democracy? According to some, whois privacy. Before this idea gathers too much steam I wanted […]
