(Last updated June 30, 2015) The ICANN Whois Accuracy Program (WAP) applies to all ICANN registrars accredited under the 2013 RAA (Registrar Accreditation Agreement). easyDNS’ accreditation auto-renewed on June 23, 2015 at which point easyDNS is now subject to enforcing the Whois Accuracy Program. We originally posted about this on our blog: Unfortunately, we have renewed […]
Domain Registration A domain name is a unique space or zone, that can be used to set up services on the Internet. Domain names are registered with a registrar, who then does the job of maintaining it with the top-level registry for that type of domain (for example, Verisign for .com, CIRA for .ca, etc..). […]
easyDNS is all about rock solid DNS. Nowadays, it’s not enough to slap together a couple of bind servers and drop each off in different colocation offices on either side of the country. With increasingly more people globally on the internet, you need to ensure your domain is on an expansive and redundant network, that […]
301 Redirect This is an HTTP response code. For URL forwarding, it indicates a permanent move of the URL as its shown in search engine results. The optimal redirect for when you’ve moved your website to a new domain or perhaps you’ve merged two websites or have used multiple domains/URLs. This is also the method […]
NOTE: For further details on our SSL certificates including how to purchase one, please go HERE. As per GDPR requirements and the new policy of private whois records, the generic e-mail address will now be used for validation of a certificate. This e-mail address is based on the domain/hostname you purchased the certificate for. […]
Regular DNS can be pretty confusing sometimes, so as you’d imagine, it gets a bit more complicated when you reverse it. Let’s go over standard forward DNS first, just to clear things up. Feel free to skip this if you’re familiar with it all. Regular DNS The thing to remember about DNS is that it’s […]
What is IPv6? IPv6 is the IETF’s replacement for IPv4 addresses. Its purpose is to replace IPv4 addresses as they near exhaustion. Unlike IPv4 address, which consist of 4 octets separated by a . (dot) ; IPv6 addresses are separated by a : (colon) and consist of 8 groups od 4 hexadecimal digits (eg: 2001:0D8B:FC10:DE01:0000:0000:0000:0001). […]
DNS (Domain Name System) is the hierarchical system designed to translate human readable information (such as a domain name, website, or other internet-based resource) into the actual addressing protocols used by computers to navigate and locate information on the Internet. This sounds complex, and can be at times, but the basics of it are actually very […]
Every type of domain has a single organization that is responsible for maintaining the list of all the domain names of its own type (called a Top Level Domain – TLD). For example, the .COM TLD is run by a company called Verisign. The .CA domain (which is a country-code or ccTLD) is run by […]
What is an Internationalized Domain Name The Internet was originally developed in a very English-oriented way, and by design, domain names only supported regular letters and numbers, as well as the hyphen ‘-‘. As the Internet expanded and the non-English language userbase began to grow, demand for support of other languages and character-sets grew. This […]