On Monday July 21st we will be updating the IP address for DNS2.EASYDNS.NET Old IP: 72.52.2.1 New IP: 198.41.222.254 DNS2 will also acquire IPv6 transit using: 2400:cb00:2049:1::c629:defe This should be completely transparent to all users. We mention it for the benefit of those using unauthorized vanity nameservers, which as we always stress will void your […]
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New Host Monitoring Tools
A new version of our host monitoring system is now available that offers two new features: An option to specify a URL to test when monitoring HTTP and HTTPS. An option to look for specific text in the HTTP response when monitoring HTTP and HTTPS. Host monitoring and Failover DNS is available at the DNS […]
[RESOLVED] Minor outage with "mailout.easydns.com"
Between 5:22pm EDT and 6:56pm EDT this evening, “mailout.easydns.com” was returning errors for users who were trying to relay email through it. This was traced back to a routing issue by our sysAdmins, and was resolved. We apologise for the inconvenience.
[RESOLVED] Maintenance this evening (2014-07-09)
From between 6pm and 6:30pm, our upstream registrar will be undergoing some maintenance. During this time, the following services via our interface will be unavailable: New domain registrations Domain renewals Nameserver delegation changes Whois updates Registrar transfers Enabling/disabling the registrar lock for your domain(s) Our sysAdmins will be monitoring the progress, and any renewals that […]
4 Key Things To Know About Being Compliant With CASL (Canadian Anti-Spam Legislation)
CASL kicks in on July 1st, we first wrote about it here. We are still of the opinion that for many internet based businesses who are already following standard best practices for running their email lists, this isn’t that much of a big deal. (There are dissenting opinions on this, see this article) When trying […]
DNSResolvers.com Shutdown Imminent
As announced nearly a year ago, DNSResolvers.com will be shutdown, no later than July 1st. As outlined in our original announcement: DNSResolvers was free, it was not our core business, and we now exist in online environment where nobody should be running open public resolvers unless they are devoting ample resources toward making sure they […]
