Before a domain can begin to resolve, it would first need to be registered with a registrar and be pointing to at least two nameservers. These nameservers will host the domain’s DNS records and will also be the authoratative servers for this domain. When someone tries to ask/query your domain’s DNS information, the request will […]
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 […]
Webmail To access and manage your e-mail, you can log into webmail. This will allow access to filtering (vacation responses for example) and calendars (for Horde only). Roundcube webmail, please visit https://messages.easymail.ca/ Horde webmail, please visit https://web.easymail.ca Please refer to our blog post announcing our introduction of Horde and the more advanced features it offers. […]
The WHOIS INFORMATION page can only be accessed for domains where we are the current registrar. To get to the WHOIS information page for your domain, just click on the WHOIS link: You should see a page that looks like the following: NOTE: Registrants are obligated to provide accurate and reliable contact details and […]
What is WHOIS Privacy? The information used to register a domain name is stored on what is called a WHOIS database which can be publicly accessed by anyone performing a WHOIS search. By enabling a feature such as our WHOIS Privacy, it allows domain owners to make their personal information such as name, address, phone number […]
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 […]