Whois Data Reminder Policy – WDRP – is an annual reminder sent to each domain’s registrant contact via e-mail. This is a requirement by ICANN. The WDRP e-mail is sent 120 days prior to the domain’s anniversary date each year. Even if the domain has been renewed for a few years in advance, the WDRP will […]
easyDNS offers the ability to set your domain to expire within your online account. By setting a domain to ‘expire’, you are signaling the intention to release it as it’s no longer required which will vastly reduce renewal notices plus remove it from your account upon its expiry date. It should be noted, that not […]
Domains with .UK [including .UK / .CO.UK / .LTD.UK / .ME.UK / .NET.UK / .ORG.UK / .PLC.UK] extensions have a different transfer process than other domains and is currently a manual process on our end. Users will need to do the following when they are ready for the transfer to be initiated: 1. Please […]
Transfer Policy Starting on 01 December 2016, ICANN [the governing body of all things internet] has mandated adjustments to the newly renamed Transfer Policy to now include registrant [domain owner] to registrant [domain owner] changes. The amended Transfer Policy is applicable to all gTLD names [all domains except country-level ones] and ICANN-accredited registrars. […]
Dynamic DNS service is used to keep a domain name pointing to the same computer or server connected to the Internet despite the fact that the address (IP address) of the computer keeps changing. This service is useful to anyone who wants to operate a server (web server, mail server, FTP server, IRC server, etc) […]
easyMail now allows users to automatically set up both an SPF and DKIM records with only a few clicks directly from the control panel. Please note this tutorial assumes your easyMail service has already been enabled. SPF (Sender Policy Framework) SPF allows email systems to check on the sender of a message to be sure it […]
Reverse DNS is separate from the standard DNS for a domain name, and as such is a different service. Our rate for the service is currently $25/yr per netblock (range of IP addresses). For us to provide a reverse lookup, our name servers need to have a delegation for the net-block (CDIR) in which that […]
Sometimes users will need to change the name servers for their domain either to point to their web host or to change their DNS provider. Before attempting to change name servers, you’ll want to make sure that easyDNS is the registrar for the domain as name server changes can only happen within the current registrar. […]
What is URL Forwarding? The URL Forwarding feature allows you to point your domain name to a website no matter where it is on the Internet. This feature is included with all our service levels. What is HTTPS URL Forwarding? The HTTPS URL Forwarding feature is available in our DNS Standard, DNS Pro, and Enterprise […]
Secondary DNS service is for users who are running name servers external to our own and wish us to relay the zone information through our servers. To do so, you’ll need to be running your own primary name server that alerts ours when you update the zone file. Due to the number of different platforms […]