On 31 May 2022 at 11:00AM UTC (7:00AM Eastern time) until 01 JUNE 3:00AM (11:00PM Eastern Time), the .ORG registry will be offline doing scheduled maintenance (migration to a new platform at the registry level). During this time frame, no actions regarding the registration of a .ORG domain name will be available – new registrations, […]
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New Outbound Mail Policy
On Monday, May 30 2022 we will be switching our outbound email service over to our new policy enforcement system. This new system will involve an additional spam-prevention policy which will prevent sending email from outside the domain name of the account used to authenticate. Meaning that if you are logging in with the account […]
Maintenance Window May 24, 2022 (Completed)
On May 24, 2021 starting at 5:00am ET (9:00am UTC), we will be conducting a scheduled upgrade, which will affect access to the member portal. The maintenance window is scheduled to be for 2 hours but we hope to have it completed much sooner. Here is a list of affected services: access to all member […]
Introducing CHAPPS: the Caching, Highly-Available Postfix Policy Service
What is a Postfix Policy Service? Providing email services to a large number of customers requires a number of moving parts. Postfix is a tried and trusted SMTP server; it has a large feature set which is already too large. In order to avoid having even more features to control email policy, Postfix provides a […]
Our New Terms of Service Make it EASY-er to screw you
It seems like every tech company in existence has updated their terms of service over the last year, and we realized that we haven’t done that yet. Even worse, when we reviewed our own Plain English Terms of Service it became readily apparent that they were too transparent and understandable. That makes it difficult to […]
Using DNS to validate crypto addresses in fundraisers
Whether it’s for trucker protests or defending against an invasion: crypto addresses need to be validated Fundraising via cryptocurrency is officially a thing, in fact it has been going on for years. It burst into the public awareness with the Canadian trucker protest in Ottawa, when Bitcoin fundraising platform Tallycoin started up a fundraiser for […]