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Yahoo testing blocking your email access if you use ad-blockers
Last week the news broke that Yahoo had begun testing a new initiative where users with ad-blocking enabled would be denied access to their email.
I've been in this business a long time, we've been through countless DDoS attacks, and a lot of "red-alert" situations. From those experiences I can tell you that users are for the most part pretty stoic and understanding about outages, even if it is causing them serious pressure at the time.
There is one exception to this: email. Mess with somebody's email and all bets are off. People, in a word, freak. Which is … Read the rest
Why We Will Not Be Registering easyDNS.SUCKS
Similar to how it's getting harder these days to differentiate actual news from The Onion satires, reality takes on a somewhat surreal timbre when it starts to imitate your April Fool's gags from yesteryear…
In 2011 we joked "easyDNS To Launch .SUX TLD", in which we posited a thinly veiled extortion racket to goad squeamish IP holders into "defending their trademarks" under a TLD which was "not intended to encourage registrations which disparage any company or entity.", but would be available for registration at blatantly exorbitant prices.
Among the steady barrage of new TLDs in the Great Namespace Expansion … Read the rest
An Open Letter to Bittorrent and File Sharing Sites
The Birthday Massacre, who is managed by my former college prof Terry MacManus. During our telephone conversation discussing the effect of filesharing on content creators I downloaded their entire 6-album catalog via bittorrent. For free.
Since our successful wrangling with another ICANN registrar over the rights of domain name holders and the responsibilities of registrars when transferring their names, we have unsurprisingly become a "goto" registrar for bittorrent and filesharing sites.
I wanted to clarify the easyDNS stance on this because I think the entire filesharing space has a limited time window to position for the future and nothing less … Read the rest
The New TLDs are Here. Do You Really Need Yourname.BLARGH?
It's been a long time coming, but as of a few months ago, the onslaught of the new Top Level Domains ("TLDs") has commenced. This is quite the game-changer because the sheer volume of new TLDs necessitates a different strategy for protecting one's interests than was the general convention of the past.
In the past, everybody (except maybe us), would try to whip all their customers into a frenzy around the concept "Get your name under [dot]whatever before somebody else does!" (We were usually a bit more stand-offish about it, being deeply skeptical of that entire model).
Not every new … Read the rest
What the recent US Government announcement about transitioning the root really means.
I was away when the big announcement came out. The news was, more or less,
"US GOVERNMENT RELINQUISHES CONTROL OF THE INTERNET!!!!!"
and I put it in all caps and underlined and with a lot of !!!! because the people who are busily talking about it in that context are typically newbie type half-wits, or journalists. The latter of which are barely distinguishable from the former, only because they aren't as intelligent and their knuckles tend to drag lower on the pavement when they walk.
Sorry if that sounds harsh, but this is the second time in less … Read the rest
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