It’s been awhile since we posted under the “Who Uses easyDNS” section. This morning I was perusing the daily changes for our nameservers and noticed the following domain just transferred in: originofthegods.com. Having grown up on a steady diet of C.W Ceram, Greek mythology, The Golden Bough, et al I was pretty much hooked by […]
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[RESOLVED] Telephone Support Connection Quality Issues
UPDATE: We have resolved this issue with the assistance of our upstream VoIP provider. Thank you for your patience. We’re currently experiencing issues with our VoIP system that is impacting call quality on our toll free support line at 1-855-321-EASY (3279). We are aware of the issue and working with our provider to get it resolved […]
DNSResolvers open resolvers will be shut down.
We recently made the decision internally that our DNSResolvers.com had to cease being open resolvers. We were still trying to figure out the best way to transition to an authenticated model gracefully. However, tonight we were DDoS-ed against those open resolvers and while our core easyDNS authoritative DNS services were not impacted, our customer environment […]
[RESOLVED] Web and email service slowdowns
We are currently experiencing a Denial of Service attack directed at our primary web and email structure. We’re coping, but connections to our control panel interface and our mail servers may be slow until we get this sorted. This is not impacting our DNS infrastructure at this time, so your domains will continue to resolve […]
This is what your registrar sees when your domain is seized under a sealed warrant.
We’ve commented before on the ramifications of US agencies operating via registry operators to seize domain names. What it effectively does is put all domain names registered under .com/.net/.org/.biz under the jurisdiction of US law, for better or for worse. Although I have never heard of the domain name that was seized (it looks like […]
Backup MX spool lifetime doubled to 10 days.
Given the flooding out in Alberta, there are many operations without power and experiencing unreachable servers and datacenter outages. As is normal for us during disasters like this, we are upping the backup MX spool lifetime here from five days to ten days, hopefully that’s enough time to get everything back online.
