This Weekend Only: .CA DomainPlus Transfers $12

We hope everybody is enjoying their long weekend as the summer season kicks off.

This weekend only you can transfer-in .CA domains at the new DomainPlus service level for only $12.

DomainPlus is the recently launched service level which gets you the domain transfer, full DNS control, URL forwarding and email forwarding and the promo this weekend gets it to you at 20% off.

Just hit the main website and choose the "DomainPlus" service level after you enter the domain you want to transfer. No coupon required.

Email Scam reported by easyDNS user.

At least one of our users has been targeted by an email-based scam where domain owners receive an email advising in large letters that their registration is expiring. This registration is not for the domain itself, but (when you read the smaller print below) for a Search Engine service that, as far as can be determined, the user was never signed up for in the first place. This is similar to 'office supply' calls where phone scammers try and get you to confirm orders for toner and paper that you never requested.

Clicking on the renewal link will bring you to a page such as the one below. The URL is a dead giveaway.

Always be careful and keep track of who your registrar is, and remember that you can sign up for easyDNS' myprivacy.ca service to allow you to post an email address but have it filtered for all but official email.

Our thanks to user VG who went out of his way to make sure we could let our other clients be aware of this particular targeted scam.

The Official easyDNS Flip-Flop on Whois Privacy

Whois Privacy is one of those things we've never done here because we had reservations about the efficacy of it, and felt there were certain inherent dangers to employing it.

We are now officially flip-flopping on that position and will henceforth offer MyPrivacy.net whois control. Here's why:

Read more »

Just Released: DomainPlus – Everything You Need To Run Your Website at $15 / year.

A commonly overheard refrain throughout this wonderful Internet is "I keep the handful of domains that absolutely MUST be up all the time with easyDNS, and all the others I keep somewhere cheaper".

It must be a hassle, having some domains here, some over there, and dealing with the bargain basement outfits can't be a picnic either.

Now, there is no reason to put yourself through this added hassle: The "Domain plus" package from easyDNS is a fully functional domain registration or transfer, complete with DNS management, URL and email forwarding for $15/year.

Who should use Domain Plus?

It is perfect if you want to simply setup a domain and get it working with your web host, a blog or some third party app like Google mail. If there's no need for "redundancy overkill" like DNS anycast or failover, then you don't need to pay the extra money for those added capabilities.

How would you decide whether to use Domain Plus?

Ask yourself this question:

"If this domain were to go down for any amount of time, is anybody going to yell at me?"

If the answer is "probably not", then Domain Plus is the solution for you. (If on the other hand an outage of any duration or cause would cause consternation or inconvenience among: your staff, your customers, your readers or your boss; then spend the extra few bucks a year and go with a DNS Hosting package.)

At the end of the day Domain Plus is exactly what you need for personal blogs, non-mission critical domains, feeder websites, mini-sites or any other application that isn't holding up another piece of the Internet or your business.

Start registering  new domains or transferring your domain over with Domain Plus today…

[Resolved] easyDNS Support Desk Offline

Please note that our office connectivity is down due to issues with our upstream provider. We're working on getting things restored as soon as possible, but support turnaround may be impacted. None of our core services are affected by this outage; all domains will continue to resolve and email will continue to be delivered.

 

EDIT 12:31 PM: We're now back online and normal operation has resumed

xfr0 Slowness

We are experiencing slowness with our xfr0.easydns.com (secondary ingress point) node. We have made some config changes and reloaded the server. The reload forces a refresh of all the zones on the server. While this happens you may encounter slight delays in secondary updates being processed.

We apologize for any issues this may cause you.

[RESOLVED] easySMTP relay delays

We recently experienced a delay in the relay of email with our easySMTP service that has been attributed to a configuration bottleneck. This has since been resolved, and all email has been dequeued. During this issue, email was not lost, only delayed in it's relay to it's destination.

We apologise for the inconvenience.

[COMPLETED] Web interface offline for maintenance

Our sysAdmins are bringing down the easyDNS interface for the database migration as previously mentioned on the blog:

http://blog2.easydns.org/2012/05/02/database-maintenance/

During this time, access to the web interface will be disabled. We hope to have this migration completed as soon as possible.

We apologise for the inconvenience.

COMPLETED – The maintenance has been completed and the easyDNS interface is accessible at this time.

[RESOLVED] xfr0 Maintenance.

[RESOLVED] The maintenance to our secondary DNS ingress point, xfr0.easydns.com, has been completed. The nameserver is operational and is currently reloading. Updates may experience a slight delay as the server is doing a refresh of  all zones.

As always, we thank you for your patience and your continued support of easyDNS.

 

 

At midnight Saturday May 5, 2012 (11:59pm) we will be conducting maintenance on XFR0.EASYDNS.COM, the network ingress point for domains running their own primary nameservers to us.

The maintenance window is scheduled for 1 hour, ending at 1am May 6th, 2012. There will be a 5 minute period during that window during which any NOTIFY packets sent will not be received.

IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY DONE THIS:

Remember, if you haven't already added it to your local configs, you should be sending NOTIFY packets to xfr0.easydns.com (64.68.200.91). If you are using bind you would do this with an "also-notify" statement.

Let us know if you have any questions or concerns around this.

Sincerely,

easyDNS Support
1-888-677-4741 (or 0-8000-321943 if you're in the UK).

Database Maintenance.

This Sunday, May 6 2012,  from 12am – 4am easyDNS will be conducting an upgrade to our core database systems. During this maintenance window the web interfaces at www.easydns.com and web.easydns.com will be unavailable as we perform a significant upgrade.  We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause our users.

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