Our website is experiencing a Distributed Denial of Service attack which started at 3:30pm yesterday (April 28, 2010). The attack was first focused on our forwarding servers, then was later expanded to attack all our web servers.
Our ISP working to resolve this. We will continue to monitor the situation and give updates as needed.
Updated 12:19pm:
Our website should be online again. The bulk of the attack is on our forwarding server, so our ISP has cut off traffic from this server. This means our domain forwarding is currently offline. We hope to have service restored within the next few hours.
Update #2 at 5:29pm:
Our forwarding server is back online, so any domains set to our domain forwarding service should be working now. Please contact us if you are still experiencing issues.
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Friday, April 16, 2010
Get a New .ME domain for less than $9!
We are selling new .ME domains for just $8.99! ($7.99 for bulk, $7.75 for super bulk) This is an $11 discount off the normal registration price! Get your very own domain that is all about YOU!
This sale will end on June 30, 2010 23:59 UTC. Transfers and renewals do not qualify for this offer. This sale only applies to the first year of any new .ME domain registration. Additional years will be at the normal price of $19.99 per year. ($17.99 for bulk, $17.75 for super bulk)
This sale will end on June 30, 2010 23:59 UTC. Transfers and renewals do not qualify for this offer. This sale only applies to the first year of any new .ME domain registration. Additional years will be at the normal price of $19.99 per year. ($17.99 for bulk, $17.75 for super bulk)
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Spamhaus Block
On March 26, 2010, all of our IP addresses were blocked by Spamhaus (spamhaus.org) for registering domains for "Russian cybercriminal spammers". We politely asked for a copy of these spam messages as required by our spam policy, however, Spamhaus has refused to give any proof to us since they cannot keep "billions of spam seen every week".
Spamhaus has also asked us to disable domains for an issue unrelated to spam. Since we'd like our IP addresses to be unblocked, we decided to investigate these domains for any possible Service Agreement violations. We began the process last Friday and finished the list on Tuesday (March 30th) at about 2pm Pacific Time. We then emailed Spamhaus, giving them a detailed breakdown of what happened to domains on their list. This breakdown is as follows:
46 domains that are NOT registered with Dynadot
5 domains that were ALREADY disabled or offline since May 2009 (nearly 11 months ago)
118 domains that were DISABLED upon completion of our investigation
3 domains that are expired and CANNOT send any email
18 domains that are offline
3 domains that are parked using Dynadot's parking service and are unable to send any email (need proof of spam)
8 domains that required proof of spam
As of today, Thursday, April 1st 1:41pm Pacific Time, we have not received any response from Spamhaus. Furthermore, we are still blocked by them.
We find Spamhaus' behavior highly unprofessional of them especially since we only require proof of spam for 11 domains out of the total list of 201 domains. It is also clear that they did not do their own research and expected us to "proofread" their list for them since 46 domains are not even registered with Dynadot at this time.
If you would like to contact Spamhaus regarding this issue, you can find their email addresses here:
http://www.spamhaus.org/organization/contacts.lasso
More information about Spamhaus' unbecoming behavior can be found here:
http://linux.andreagozzi.com/content/spamhaus_article.php
Update:
As of April 6, 2010, Spamhaus has removed us from their blacklist.
Spamhaus has also asked us to disable domains for an issue unrelated to spam. Since we'd like our IP addresses to be unblocked, we decided to investigate these domains for any possible Service Agreement violations. We began the process last Friday and finished the list on Tuesday (March 30th) at about 2pm Pacific Time. We then emailed Spamhaus, giving them a detailed breakdown of what happened to domains on their list. This breakdown is as follows:
46 domains that are NOT registered with Dynadot
5 domains that were ALREADY disabled or offline since May 2009 (nearly 11 months ago)
118 domains that were DISABLED upon completion of our investigation
3 domains that are expired and CANNOT send any email
18 domains that are offline
3 domains that are parked using Dynadot's parking service and are unable to send any email (need proof of spam)
8 domains that required proof of spam
As of today, Thursday, April 1st 1:41pm Pacific Time, we have not received any response from Spamhaus. Furthermore, we are still blocked by them.
We find Spamhaus' behavior highly unprofessional of them especially since we only require proof of spam for 11 domains out of the total list of 201 domains. It is also clear that they did not do their own research and expected us to "proofread" their list for them since 46 domains are not even registered with Dynadot at this time.
If you would like to contact Spamhaus regarding this issue, you can find their email addresses here:
http://www.spamhaus.org/organization/contacts.lasso
More information about Spamhaus' unbecoming behavior can be found here:
http://linux.andreagozzi.com/content/spamhaus_article.php
Update:
As of April 6, 2010, Spamhaus has removed us from their blacklist.
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