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by aeden 14y ago
* We don't cap traffic at the moment but we do work with our customers when the traffic is significant, offering suggestions on how to improve DNS caching. If we ever do need to cap we'll make sure to give plenty of notice to any customer t
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by aeden 14y ago
Ideally your primary provider would support AXFR and NOTIFY which are part of the DNS zone transfer protocol. It's something we're working on adding to DNSimple, but we're not quite ready to launch it yet. The primary and secondary provider
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by aeden 14y ago
Yes, we had a short outage this morning. We're still investigating the root cause but the symptoms were essentially a simultaneous slow down across all name servers. It's quite possible this is part of the same DDoS that Zerigo is facing, w
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by aeden 14y ago
I tried to add some insight on another comment, but it's tough to say anything about DDoS that hasn't already been said. DDoS attacks suck, mitigating them requires a multi-prong approach and proactive monitoring and agressive banning and e
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by aeden 14y ago
A dedicated DNS provider will often focus on the experience around managing DNS, including APIs and advanced features. Additionally some folks don't like putting all of their eggs in one basket and prefer to have their registrar be one comp
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by aeden 14y ago
As you're probably aware the server that you use has little impact when the DDoS sends enough traffic to actually saturate your allocated bandwidth. Anycast provides a good way to handle DDoS, along with proactive monitoring and defense mec
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by aeden 14y ago
I run DNSimple ( https://dnsimple.com ) and we have a full REST API and support domain registrations, transfers and SSL certificates as well. Plus we have an ALIAS record type that's very useful for pointing your apex to services where they
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by aeden 14y ago
Sounds like your snarky self needs a matter replicator. I think the schematics are available in some book about Star Trek somewhere but you'll probably need to find a dilithium crystal to make it work.
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by aeden 14y ago
Sending traffic to different zones isn't the challenge, the challenge is deciding where your master data will live. In fact, this has always been one of the biggest challenges of building a fault-tolerant systems. If your master data store
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by aeden 14y ago
And even if it were a doughnut company they'd still have every right to apply for it. No one has gotten anything yet. :-)
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by aeden 14y ago
.local is already spelled out as a reserved word in the application guidebook.
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by aeden 14y ago
See section "1.1.2.10 String Contention" of the applicant guidebook. In the guidebook it ultimately may come down to "community resolution" or auctioning.
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by aeden 14y ago
You'd be wasting your money as it is one of the exceptions listed a reserved word in the applicant guidebook.
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by aeden 14y ago
Take it one step further: make an MVP, within a domain you already are familiar with and charge for it. Also buy (SaaS), don't build, when possible. I would like to add: launching any business is hard. Keeping it running is harder, because
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by aeden 14y ago
I wonder if they will allow multiple apps sold from the marketplace to run on the same instance? I haven't gone through the process yet of setting up an instance via the marketplace, but I think that it's essential that I can a.) install mu
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by aeden 15y ago
Excellent article and good on you for sticking to your principles. "But I exhort game developers: don't join a company whose values are opposed to your own. Values aren't just for idealists -- they matter. If a company's practices make you
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by aeden 15y ago
This is quite cool. I'd love to see other languages. For example, I haven't written Python in a while - it'd be great to have a refresher for it.
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by aeden 15y ago
Out of curiosity, how would you mitigate a similar DDOS attack against your system? Do you believe that your system would hold up against a DDOS similar to what NameCheap is experiencing?
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by aeden 15y ago
Nice job on this. I usually use http://everytimezone.com but I like how I can configure this with the zones that matter to me. It would be nice if I could easily use my favorites when doing the Here -> There comparison.
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by aeden 15y ago
It'll be really interesting to see how Hungry Academy turns out. Jeff is dedicated to his craft and if this works out it will hopefully provide a good way of injecting new talent and diversity into our software development communities.
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by aeden 15y ago
The issue is that exposes the OP's identity in Whois for a bit of time during the transfer.
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by aeden 15y ago
The purchase is automatic, at least for most, if not all, gTLDs. When you submit the request to transfer to the registry, and it successfully completes, the domain is automatically extended 1 year.
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by aeden 15y ago
If I recall correctly (and it has been awhile since I worked directly with the Verisign Registry), the codes are generated by the registry, not the registrar. Therefore the question should be WTF is the registry playing at. Since they have
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by aeden 15y ago
Bank of America (sigh)
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by aeden 15y ago
They can be accredited and still resell, which I think they may be doing for some TLDs. For each TLD you want to be a registrar for you have to go through some sort of accreditation process with that TLD, so getting direct access to a large
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by aeden 15y ago
Personally I think this should be considered a violation of their agreement with ICANN. There is nothing wrong with providing privacy protection on Whois data, but they should not be rejecting transfers nor should they be blocking legitimat
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by aeden 15y ago
Enom is definitely having issues getting whois data, although I was under the impression that Namecheap was now accredited and as such would have started communicating directly with the registry for .com and .net at least. Maybe not though.
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by aeden 15y ago
None unless someone can get ICANN to consider their behavior a violation of the ICANN registry/registrar agreement.
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by aeden 15y ago
This sounds like a good idea, although the registrars would need to know that there are additional whois mirrors available and start using them, however there are other issues to consider: * Registrars would have to trust that the data in t
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by aeden 15y ago
I agree that it seems unlikely that the whois server is having technical difficulties, rather they are probably throttling requests. Consider that spammers use whois servers as a means for harvesting email addresses and therefore they are l

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