As most of you are aware, we were DDoS-ed yesterday and experienced severe impact across our dns1, dns2 and dns3 anycast clouds. There was no identifiable target here on the system, rather, it appears as if our infrastructure was used in an attempt to DDoS somebody else, in other words, it was a DNS amplification […]
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[resolved] Workaround for DDoS
[ Current status: worst is over for now] June 4, 2013 9:59 EST Do not downgrade to domainPlus below – but feel free to set up the other extra redundancies. As posted earlier, there is a DDoS against easyDNS in progress https://www.easydns.com/blog/2013/06/03/ddos-in-progress-2/ Workarounds Temporarily downgrade to “domainPlus” level of service which is using non-anycast, unicast […]
[resolved] DDoS in progress
We are under DDoS at the moment. This looks like a larger version of a smaller DDoS yesterday which was possibly a test run. Currently we are turning up mitigation and investigating. Please bear with us. Update 21:19 EST This DDoS attack is different from our previous ones in that it looks as if the […]
[RESOLVED] OUTAGE: dns2.easydns.net
[UPDATE 5:28 EDT] We are back online after a thankfully brief outage. We are working now to determine the root cause of this issue. We are currently experiencing an outage affecting our dns2.easydns.net anycast cluster. We are working to get this resolved as soon as possible. This does not appear to be an attack, and […]
Memo to ICANN: Registries Need To Price In Bitcoin
ICANN’s job as an oversight body to the global naming system is (supposedly) to weigh the needs of all global stakeholders and to try to address regional, national and linguistic requirements. In practice, not much of this happens, so we’re left with an internet where most domain name registrants are subject to US law and […]
[COMPLETED] Maintenance – easyMail – Sunday, May 19, 2013
On Sunday night, May 19th, between the hours of 11pm and 1am EST, we will be performing an update to the easyMail service. During this time, customers will not be able to check their email and incoming email will be delayed. We apologise for the inconvenience, but this is necessary to allow us to further […]
