How to Use Let’s Encrypt DNS-01 with easyDNS
Step-by-step: automate Let’s Encrypt certificates, including wildcards, for easyDNS-hosted domains using DNS-01 with Certbot (certbot-dns-easydns), acme.sh and lego.
DNS-01 ACME Challenges with easyDNS
easyDNS supports ACME DNS-01 validation through its REST API, so Certbot, acme.sh, lego, Caddy, Traefik and Nginx Proxy Manager can issue and renew Let’s Encrypt certificates, including wildcards, automatically.
How to Recover an easyDNS Account After the Account Holder’s Death (and What to Expect)
Why This Is a Separate Process The standard account recovery process is for a living customer who has lost access. When the account holder has died, that process does not apply. Estate recovery exists so the legal representative of the estate can take control of the account, while we still block anyone else from walking […]
How to Add Cloudflare WAF Protection to Your EasyDNS Domain (Partial CNAME Setup from Scratch)
What This Guide Does This guide shows EasyDNS customers how to add Cloudflare protection (WAF, CDN, DDoS protection, and security features) to their domain without changing nameservers. You will keep managing DNS in EasyDNS while routing web traffic through Cloudflare using a Partial (CNAME) Setup. This setup uses: ANAME record for the root domain (example.com) […]
EasyMail Outbound Send-As Sending Policy and Domain Authorization
easyMail (easyDNS’s outbound email service) enforces a strict policy to prevent unauthorized use and reduce spam. Starting May 30, 2022, you can only send emails using domains that are properly authorized for your easyMail account. This policy ensures that emails sent through easyMail come from domains you control and have correctly configured for outbound sending. […]
How to Recover Access to Your easyDNS Account (and What to Expect)
Why We Have a Strict Account Recovery Process We have significantly strengthened our account recovery procedures to better protect against increasingly sophisticated social engineering attacks. Our goal is simple: make it extremely difficult for anyone but the legitimate account owner to regain access, while still providing a clear path for real customers who have genuinely […]
iCal Support for Domain Expirations
NOTE: The iCal feature only supports the registration dates of your domain names not any other services. For services such as DNS only, web hosting, and add ons you will want to mark those down individually. easyDNS now offers iCal support for your domain expiration dates. Before using this feature, you’ll first want to make sure […]
Understanding DNS Queries: From Basics to IPv6 Implications
The Domain Name System (DNS) is the backbone of the internet, translating human-readable domain names like “example.com” into machine-readable IP addresses. At its core, a DNS query is a request sent by a client (such as a web browser or application) to a DNS server to resolve this translation or retrieve other domain-related information. This […]
Registration Data Policy (“RDP”) & Whois
ICANN’s updated Registration Data Policy (“RDP”), effective 21 August 2025, changes how your domain contact information is collected and stored. The biggest change is that registrars (easyDNS) will collect and retain a much smaller set of mandatory data for your domain. For most domain purchases, you will only need to provide their name, address, country, […]
DNSSEC V3
Please note that the DNSSEC is still a protocol under significant change. As such, we are not compliant with all possible options available under the DNSSEC protocol. We are working to make sure we stay up to date with that. What is DNSSEC? Briefly, DNSSEC is a means of securing your domain from certain types […]