At the time we posted Whatever Happened To Due Process we were unaware that we were just one of many registrars receiving these notices from the London (UK) Police. We have since been made aware that this was part of a larger initiative against the BitTorrent space as a whole, and that most if not […]
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Whatever Happened to "Due Process" ?
This morning I received the following email: Classification: NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED Dear Sir or Madam, Re: Website domain name suspension request #2 On the 24th September 2013, EasyDNS Technologies was emailed a domain suspension request for the following domain(s) that to date we have not received a reply nor seen action taken: [redacted].com [IP redacted] […]
[RESOLVED] Main Website Connectivity
Our main website at easyDNS.com is currently unavailable. We are aware of the problem and are working towards a speedy resolution. We do apologize for the inconvenience. The easyDNS Team. [ Update – 2013-10-04 @ 11:23am EST] Connectivity has been restored. Thank you very much for your patience.
What the New Canadian Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL) Actually Means
[ Update: CASL is right around the corner, we have just posted “4 Key Things To Know About Being Compliant With CASL” ] Last week I became aware of a flurry of attention around forthcoming Canadian Anti-Spam Legislation. ITBusiness.ca ran a twitter round-up under the hashtag #BeCASLReady and suddenly it seemed this was the next […]
Scam Alert: Phone calls pretending to be from CIRA
We have received an alert from CIRA (who oversees the .CA namespace) that a boiler room is calling people using the CIRA name with the objective of gaining remote access to the recipient’s computer: Dear Registrars, CIRA would like to notify all Registrars of a recent phone call security scam using the CIRA name that […]
[RESOLVED] Unplanned web control panel maintenance window
UPDATE: Maintenance is complete and we’re back to normal operations. We will have a brief maintenance window this evening at 11:00 EDT as we perform some server maintenance. It should be just a momentary outage, and of course this only affects the web interface. All DNS and email service will continue throughout. We apologize […]