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easyDNS
Company blog · easydns.com/blogwebsecurity
easyDNS is the company blog at easydns.com, writing about web and security. Since 2010, 34 different Hacker News readers have linked it 108 times, most often “For DNSSEC (2015)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (28) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link easyDNS's blog, especially the 2015 'For DNSSEC' rebuttal and the 2020 post on Cloudflare as a single point of failure, usually as support in DNS and DNSSEC debates.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 28 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- For DNSSEC (2015)6 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2020-02-18
- Turns out half the internet has a single-point-of-failure called “Cloudflare”4 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2020-07-20
- Canada's "Strong Borders Act" (Bill C-2) Contains Four Mass Surveillance Trojans2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-06-05
- /dns/proactive-nameservers/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-07-20
- Tor and the Dark Web: How to connect to the digital underground and why2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-11-29
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-08-02
- Why you must learn to love DNSSEC2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-06-19
- Why should any non-Euro companies care about the GDPR?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-05-28
- Why does easyDNS provide services to Martian separatists?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-09-06
- Move over Mastodon, here comes Nostr (and to set up your NIP-05 id)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-01-19
What Hacker News says?
EasyDNS ( https://easydns.com ), based in Canada has been around for years, and has a good reputation for not blindly actioning DMCA requests (which can be important for some). :)
Comment linking /
on “Let's guess what Google requires in 14 days or they kill our extension”Submitted Turns out half the internet has a single-point-of-failure called “Cloudflare” as a story · 972 points
HN discussionhttps://easydns.com/blog/2020/07/20/turns-out-half-the-inter... The whole idea of the internet was a distributed network impervious to most attacks. The reality is that a single failure can knock out 90% of the services people use.
Comment linking /blog/2020/07/20/turns-out-half-the-internet-has-a-single-point-of-failure-called-cloudflare/
on “Fastly Outage”Submitted Bye Bye Microsoft Office, Hello LibreOffice as a story · 349 points
HN discussionA timely reminder for all of us that "half the internet has a single point of failure called Cloudflare". [1] [1]: https://easydns.com/blog/2020/07/20/turns-out-half-the-inter...
Comment linking /blog/2020/07/20/turns-out-half-the-internet-has-a-single-point-of-failure-called-cloudflare/
on “Blocking Kiwifarms”Submitted EasyDNS threatened with criminal complaint if client data not disclosed as a story · 273 points
HN discussionIt may be just an ad for easyDNS' Proactive Nameservers [1] product but it provides a roadmap for one possible solution to this type of problem. From a quick reading of the marketing info, the solution can be summarized as "Provision, Monitor, and Fail-Over DNS Name Servers across multiple DNS-as-a-Service providers". The question I have is whether the following constraint is artificially introduced or not: > We mus…
Comment linking /dns/proactive-nameservers/
on “Turns out half the internet has a single-point-of-failure called “Cloudflare””Submitted A Heretic's Guide to Deplatforming as a story · 250 points
HN discussion> We call it Proactive Nameservers, and we’re the only company in the world doing it for some reason. Wait, why? [0]: > Proactive Nameservers is a patent-pending system that optimizes the nameserver delegation for your mission critical domain names. Oh. [0] https://easydns.com/dns/proactive-nameservers/
Comment linking /dns/proactive-nameservers/
on “Turns out half the internet has a single-point-of-failure called “Cloudflare””Submitted Why ISOC sold .ORG to VCs as a story · 237 points
HN discussionI can recommend https://easydns.com/
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on “GoDaddy injecting JavaScript into websites and how to stop it”Submitted The End of an Era for EasyDNS as a story · 223 points
HN discussionThe UK has been doing this sort of stuff for at least a decade. For example they have the PIPCU which under the guise of copyright threatens 10 years in prison for sites not even in their jurisdiction. https://torrentfreak.com/uk-police-launch-campaign-to-shut-d... And with that, they have at the least gotten registrars not located in their jurisdicrion to transfer domains https://easydns.com/blog/2013/10/08/whateve…
Comment linking /blog/2013/10/08/whatever-happened-to-due-process/
on “Imgur pulls out of UK as data watchdog threatens fine”Submitted How Cybercriminals Profit by Tapping Your Email as a story · 110 points
HN discussionBut that's beside the main point. You guys are essentially the "single point of failure" for half the internet. [1] Being competent and smart doesn't really help too much, as demonstrated by how you guys had to give in to the pressure to censor recently. [1]: https://easydns.com/blog/2020/07/20/turns-out-half-the-inter...
Comment linking /blog/2020/07/20/turns-out-half-the-internet-has-a-single-point-of-failure-called-cloudflare/
on “You don’t want to be on Cloudflare’s naughty list”Submitted EasyDNS is now accepting Dogecoin for payments as a story · 105 points
HN discussionWith how tongue-in-cheek the whole document is, this is clearly a joke to emphasize their point (which, I agree, has no place in a legal document, no matter how plain). My point is that everything else in the document is pretty much industry standard, except that others are less...direct about it. https://easydns.com/terms-of-service
Comment linking /terms-of-service
on “EasyDNS threatened with criminal complaint if client data not disclosed”Submitted Twitter's community verification system will be a disaster as a story · 89 points
HN discussionDo you have other clients who are in Germany? It appears that you do act as a registrar for .DE domains. At least, entering "ascascdasdcascascascasdcasdc.de" on the search on the front page at https://easydns.com/ offers to register it for me. It's purely a guess on my part, but I'd expect that most people who purchase .DE domains are in Germany, so if you've actually sold a few .DE domains you probably have some Ge…
Comment linking /domains/register/
on “EasyDNS threatened with criminal complaint if client data not disclosed”Submitted Gmail scans, parses, analyzes and catalogs your email as a story · 84 points
HN discussionI won't say he's wrong, but he presents a very one-sided view. It's worth reading the responses to criticisms like his: https://www.easydns.com/blog/2015/08/06/for-dnssec/
Comment linking /blog/2015/08/06/for-dnssec/
on “Public Key Pinning Being Removed from Chrome”Submitted EasyDNS refuses to host The DailyStormer domain as a story · 78 points
HN discussionJIRA Studio - http://www.atlassian.com/hosted/studio/ BitBucket - http://bitbucket.org/ Salesforce - http://salesforce.com/ Gapps - http://apps.google.com/ ZenDesk - http://zendesk.com/ EasyDNS - http://easydns.com most of these aren't cheap, but through a process of trial and error I found out that they are the best.
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on “Ask HN: Tools of the trade, 2010 edition”Submitted Network Solutions’ scammy bullshit signup funnel as a story · 77 points
HN discussionI've used nearly every domain registrar out there and here are the ones I'd recommend: http://www.uniregistrar.com (two-factor, free privacy, cayman islands) http://www.easydns.com (two-factor, canadian) http://www.pairnic.com (super lock, requires id to unlock if you enable it) http://www.dyn.com http://www.namebright.com (two-factor) http://www.name.com (two-factor) http://www.gandi.net (two-factor) Security is re…
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on “$1.99 SSL certificates offered by Namecheap ”Submitted Turns out half the internet has a Single-Point-of-Failure called Cloudflare (2020) as a story · 74 points
HN discussionRebuttal: < https://easydns.com/blog/2015/08/06/for-dnssec/ >
Comment linking /blog/2015/08/06/for-dnssec/
on “deSEC – Free Secure DNS”Submitted Canada's "Strong Borders Act" (Bill C-2) Contains Four Mass Surveillance Trojans as a story · 56 points
HN discussionRegarding outdated crypto, that’s a common DNSSEC trope that’s been debunked: https://easydns.com/blog/2015/08/06/for-dnssec/#weak
Comment linking /blog/2015/08/06/for-dnssec/
on “DNSSEC root key signing ceremony postponed because they can't open a safe”Submitted For DNSSEC (2015) as a story · 39 points
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