Tag Archives: wikileaks
The Ramifications of US Government Domain Takedowns
When I posted about the bodog.com domain takedown the last thing I expected was for it to have "gone viral" the way it did. Given everything this company has been through and all the issues we've commented on (SOPA, Bill C-30, Elephant Snuff, Jotform), this one took the cake and was the most read article [...]
How SOPA Will Destroy The Internet
As you read this, please keep in mind that I say it all with a track record of nearly 14 years of being proactive and having a zero-tolerance policy towards criminal activity and network abuse on our system. We have great relationships with Law Enforcement Agencies both here in Canada and abroad. We are always [...]
The Guardian gets it wrong….again.
The Guardian UK seems to be hell-bent on putting my company out of business. After joining the throng of media outlets mistakenly reporting last week that we unplugged wikileaks, today they reported easyDNS as one of the companies knocked offline by DOS attacks carried out by Anonymous. As per usual, this is wrong. We have [...]
WikiLeaks.ORG DNS is NOT with easyDNS (so far)
Just in case you were not confused enough as to whether we unplugged wikileaks, helped them get back online; or had unprotected "relations" with Julian Assange (we didn't), the story "broke" this morning that WikiLeaks.org was back, due to help from easyDNS: Access to Wikileaks.org has returned after members of its consortium worked with Mark [...]
easyDNS in The Globe And Mail, Here's What You Need To Know
I feel like finally, after everything that's happened, we get a bit of vindication in the media as Canada's own Globe and Mail steps up to the plate and becomes the first (and thus far only) major, mainstream media outlet to get it right. Thank you. If I could clarify just one thing about the [...]
Timeline of an Epic #FAIL: The WikiLeaks Takedown Fiasco
Things have been moving so fast over the last five days I haven't had a chance to come up for air. This entire ordeal has completely taken over my life, just when I think things are calming down, some gigantic media outlet comes out with another story about Wikileaks that includes the erroneous "fact" that [...]
Concerns around Wikileaks DNS for easyDNS Members
I've received a few emails and comments to the blog expressing perfectly understandable concern around easyDNS providing DNS for wikileaks.ch (what's more, wikileaks.nl has also just added our DNS to their nameserver delegation). Please excuse us for not adequately clarifying the situation earlier to address these concerns. The stability and reliability of our systems and [...]
easyDNS added to Wikileaks.ch DNS delegation
[ Update Dec 5th 5:45pm EST: At the moment we're part of the delegation for wikileaks.ch and were told to expect the .org delegation, however it is now looking more nebulous. There is some confusion around control over the wikileaks.ORG domain and who has it. To be honest, it turns out we are not dealing [...]
Ok, so would we take on Wikileaks DNS at this point?
So after the big clusterf*** with easyDNS being falsely blamed for taking down wikileaks, somebody posts the inevitable question "Would easyDNS take wikileaks DNS"? and from there makes what I think is a dubious extension: by NOT taking them we're doing the same thing as "taking them down". What I find dubious about all this [...]
Wikileaks "takedown" fiasco underscores pathetic state of internet "journalism"
[ Updated Dec 4 and Dec 7, see "Further Reading" section at end of post] I've commented before that I'm amazed at how fast bad information travels on the internet, but this morning it got pretty ridiculous. Looks like wikileaks was the subject of a DOS attack last night, and their DNS provider who was [...]
