Today, Monday December 12th, at 5PM (Eastern – 22:00 UTC), the .INFO registry will be doing scheduled maintenance for about 1 1/2 hours (ending at 6:30pm Eastern). During this time the following services will be affected: • Availability Checks • Whois Services • Domain Purchases • Domain Renewals • Domain Updates The .INFO registry also […]
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Take Control Over Your Social Media Presence with Mastodon
Mastodon is in the news lately and there is a lot of fresh interest. This article will take you through the background of what it is, why it’s experiencing a surge in popularity and how you can participate in “The Fediverse” from an individual, group or node operator level. What is Mastodon? Mastodon is an […]
PayPal, Bank Seizures and the Necessity for Trustless Money
When I first heard about Paypal’s plan to deduct $2,500 from account for each instance where “in Paypal’s sole discretion”, the account holder had transmitted “misinformation”, I all but took a strip out of the person who sent it to me because I couldn’t believe it was real. It was a thread from a Telegram […]
easyMAIL outbound
On Wednesday, September 28th at 9PM EST (1AM UTC – 29 September), we will be switching our inbound email infrastructure for easymail over to newly rebuilt servers. We are not anticipating any trouble in this process, though some clients may need to restart their email clients to re-set their connections to our IMAP servers. All […]
Beware of Ethereum Merge Related Phishing Emails
The long awaiting Ethereum Merge occurred in the early hours of Sept 15th. It didn’t take long for the scammers to start sending out fake emails urging the recipients to upgrade their client/account/whatever in order to be able to stay current under the new system.
Native Support for Registering Ethereum Name Service (ENS) .ETH Domains
We were the first ICANN registrar to support Ethereum Name Service (ENS) linking to legacy IANA TLDs, starting with .XYZ back in 2018 and then earlier this year with many others, including .COM. That means you could use your .XYZ or .COM domain as an Ethereum wallet address, NFT, etc. We’ve now gone a step […]
