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easyDNS
Company blog · blog.easydns.org/blogsecurityweb
easyDNS is the company blog at blog.easydns.org, writing about security and web. Since 2008, 37 different Hacker News readers have linked it 75 times, most often “For DNSSEC”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (27) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link easyDNS's blog, mostly Mark Jeftovic's posts on DNSSEC, domain takedowns, privacy and registrar policy, often as the opposing view in DNSSEC debates.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 27 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Power & Freedom
Most-linked posts?
- For DNSSEC5 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2015-08-06
- Verisign seizes .com domain registered via foreign registrar4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2012-02-29
- /2014/01/29/welcome-to-easydns-press-1-for-support-press-2-to-get-the-last-4-digits-of-your-credit-card-number-on-file-here/2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-04-02
- Unfortunately, we have renewed our ICANN Accreditation2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-05-20
- The DNS Attack: What It Means, “Who Did It?” and How to Deal2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-10-24
- Post-mortem of the June 3-4th DDoS2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-06-04
- Wikileaks "takedown" fiasco underscores pathetic state of Internet "journalism"2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-12-04
- Hub Nation and the Scandal of Money2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-05-16
- The US Government has no credibility to compel anybody to weaken security2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-02-22
- First they came for the file-sharing domains… 2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-11-30
What Hacker News says?
I think there's only one appropriate response when Amazon comes stumbling into your market: http://blog.easydns.org/2011/01/18/easyroute53-nameserver-in...
Comment linking /2011/01/18/easyroute53-nameserver-integration-and-dns-management-layer-for-route53/
on “Introducing Amazon Simple Email Service”Submitted Verisign seizes .com domain registered via foreign registrar as a story · 387 points
HN discussionMad props to Mark Jeftovic and easyDNS. Found his service by doing a WHOIS on ycombinator.com when looking for a new registrar a while back. easyDNS has the cleanest and most logical interface for managing domain names and DNS records that I've found. And Mark's blog posts (like the one above) are great. Here's another favorite: http://blog.easydns.org/2014/01/29/welcome-to-easydns-press-...
Comment linking /2014/01/29/welcome-to-easydns-press-1-for-support-press-2-to-get-the-last-4-digits-of-your-credit-card-number-on-file-here/
on “Why we will not be registering easydns.sucks”Submitted Whatever happened to due process? as a story · 323 points
HN discussioneasyDNS is Canadian. EDIT: they have an interesting blog post on SOPA: http://blog.easydns.org/2011/12/22/how-sopa-will-destroy-the...
Comment linking /2011/12/22/how-sopa-will-destroy-the-internet/
on “List of YC companies that use GoDaddy”Submitted Why we will not be registering easydns.sucks as a story · 320 points
HN discussionI've been a fan of easyDNS for their security features and how they go to bat for their customers when it comes to things like transfers / takedown notices. http://blog.easydns.org/2014/01/29/welcome-to-easydns-press-... http://blog.easydns.org/2012/02/21/the-official-easydns-doma... And has Gandi changed their terms recently to remove the bullshit? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4970947
Comment linking /2012/02/21/the-official-easydns-domain-takedown-policy/
on “When two-factor authentication is not enough”Submitted The US Government has no credibility to compel anybody to weaken security as a story · 313 points
HN discussion> Then don't use DNS if you can't trust it? Same with CAs, but I believe it's easier to distrust a rogue CA than a rogue name registry. I mean, if there's a news that some .example TLD is in bed with NSA, Chinese government and Russian FSB - there isn't much we can do about that, isn't it? And I guess most businesses won't go as far as changing their domain name. At the same time, on most devices I saw, distrusting…
Comment linking /2015/08/06/for-dnssec/
on “WoSign's secret purchase of StartCom: WoSign threatened legal actions”Submitted RIAA to .ORG Registry: Take down ThePirateBay as a story · 223 points
HN discussion> You never control a domain Then don't use DNS if you can't trust it? You have to trust at some point. Or create your own infrastructure and convince others to trust you, if you want more than a private network. > Anyone who can feed you spoofed DNS responses The tendency goes towards running your own local DNS resolver. It was not possible in the 90s, but since then both the network and computer got a lot faster a…
Comment linking /2015/08/06/for-dnssec/
on “WoSign's secret purchase of StartCom: WoSign threatened legal actions”Submitted We are being sued for refusing to take down a website as a story · 148 points
HN discussion> "They are not asking for some general thing, they are asking for a particular case." Was hoping Gates would be less naive in thinking this legal precedent has anything to do with this specific case which has close to 0% chance of providing any real-world information and more to do with the fact that this tragedy is used as political theatre and being exploited for maximum PR and political influence. > "Should gove…
Comment linking /2016/02/22/the-us-government-has-no-credibility-to-compel-anybody-to-weaken-security/
on “Bill Gates calls for terror data debate”Submitted As Deadly as a DDoS: ICANN Unleashes the Whois Accuracy Program as a story · 107 points
HN discussionI use EasyDNS. Here's why: http://blog.easydns.org/2014/01/29/welcome-to-easydns-press-...
Comment linking /2014/01/29/welcome-to-easydns-press-1-for-support-press-2-to-get-the-last-4-digits-of-your-credit-card-number-on-file-here/
on “My website was stolen by a hacker and I got it back”Submitted You have a moral obligation to use crypto as a story · 92 points
HN discussionIndeed there are! In fact we're in the midst of another minor tiff over just that issue right now http://blog.easydns.org/2014/08/15/heres-why-we-took-down-a-...
Comment linking /2014/08/15/heres-why-we-took-down-a-pharmacy-domain-without-a-court-order/
on “We are being sued for refusing to take down a website”Submitted EasyDNS is under DoS attack as a story · 69 points
HN discussionEasyDNS provides integration with AWS: http://easyroute53.com/ They have an interesting blog post about setting up secondary DNS: http://blog.easydns.org/2013/09/10/what-we-are-doing-about-c... I have no affiliation with them, just a happy customer.
Comment linking /2013/09/10/what-we-are-doing-about-chronic-ddos-attacks/
on “Incident Report – DDoS Attack”Submitted 5 questions for Y Combinator's Paul Graham as a story · 48 points
HN discussionObligatory responses to tptacek's article: - http://blog.easydns.org/2015/08/06/for-dnssec/ - http://www.circleid.com/posts/20150318_is_dnssec_worth_the_e... Collectively thousands of words have been written on this topic within HN - and there are stark divisions between those who oppose DNSSEC and those who believe DNSSEC is a helpful and useful method of adding a layer of security to the Internet. We don't agree.…
Comment linking /2015/08/06/for-dnssec/
on “Universal DNSSEC: Secure DNS for Every Domain”Submitted For DNSSEC as a story · 43 points
HN discussionIf you find any of these points convincing, please have a look at this FAQ, esp. the DANE section: http://blog.easydns.org/2015/08/06/for-dnssec/
Comment linking /2015/08/06/for-dnssec/
on “Is HTTP Public Key Pinning Dead?”Submitted The new TLDs are here, do you really need Yourname.BLARGH? as a story · 34 points
HN discussionAnd EasyDNS have a blog post[0] about why it actually is a good idea (disclosure: I agree). [0] http://blog.easydns.org/2015/08/06/for-dnssec/
Comment linking /2015/08/06/for-dnssec/
on “WoSign Incidents Report Update [pdf]”Submitted Unfortunately, we have renewed our ICANN Accreditation as a story · 24 points
HN discussionSee "Unfortunately, we have renewed our ICANN Accreditation": http://blog.easydns.org/2015/05/20/unfortunately-we-have-ren... for an interesting perspective on the Whois Accuracy Program.
Comment linking /2015/05/20/unfortunately-we-have-renewed-our-icann-accreditation/
on “Thepiratebay.com domain has been suspended”Submitted “Notice of Criminality” Received via Email from City of London (UK) Police as a story · 18 points
HN discussionFYI: EasyDNS had nothing to do with this, it was a misprint by some online journalists. Source: http://blog.easydns.org/2010/12/03/wikileaks-takedown-fiasco...
Comment linking /2010/12/03/wikileaks-takedown-fiasco-underscores-pathetic-state-of-internet-journalism/
on “PayPal Suspends WikiLeaks Account ”Submitted Wikileaks "takedown" fiasco underscores pathetic state of Internet "journalism" as a story · 17 points
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