DNSSEC drastically improves the security of the internet and systems that rely on it. Sadly, there is a lot of FUD out there and we wanted to both debunk that FUD and explain why DNSSEC is vital to the security of the internet.
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New GTLDs are great for pump-and-dumps, phishes and more….
Yesterday, egregious financial truth-tellers (and easyDNS client) ZeroHedge broke the news that parties unknown engineered what looks to be a textbook “pump-and-dump” on Twitter’s stock by putting up a fake “Bloomberg Financial News” site on the domain bloomberg.market and proceeded to run a story on it about Twitter being acquired. The story spread and shares […]
Phishing attacks using SMS text messages
Be on your guard, the phishing attacks are coming from every vector nowadays. The other night I received this SMS on my cell phone at about 3:30am. Obviously a fake login site, in this case we can tell from looking at the domain name itself that it was registered for the explicit purpose of setting […]
Confessions of an ex-opponent of Whois Privacy
The following is the easyDNS response to ICANN’ public comment period on GNSO Privacy & Proxy Services Accreditation Issues Working Group Initial Report. The public comment period is open until July 7, 2015. We strongly urge you to make your voice known by signing the petition over at Save Domain Privacy. I submit these comments […]
easyMail difficulties
The problem we were having with easyMail has now been resolved, so email delivery and behaviour should be back to normal. We are experiencing some oddities with email delivery since making changes to improve our spam filtering on the new easyMail system. Email is not being lost but there have been delays and spam filtering […]
Le Programme d'Exactitude Whois ICANN (PEW)
Le Programme d’Exactitude Whois ICANN (PEW) s’applique à tous les bureaux d’enregistrement accrédités par l’ICANN sous l’AABE (Accord d’Accreditation des Bureaux d’Enregistrement) 2013. L’accréditation d’easyDNS se renouvelle automatiquement le 23 Juin 2015, et easyDNS sera soumis à l’application du Programme d’Exactitude Whois. Nous avons affiché à ce sujet sur notre blog: Malheureusement, nous avons renouvelé […]
