One of the services that we provide at DNSimple is URL redirection. You enter a special record in your DNSimple DNS for a domain and when we receive a DNS query for an A name of that record we return the IP address of our redirection service. If the next request is an HTTP request…
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Post-mortem for DNS outage on July 23rd
Root Cause From approximately 09:35 UTC until 10:00 UTC, July 23rd 2012, DNSimple experienced an outage across four name servers. This outage appears to be the result of a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. Due to the attack we were unable to respond to DNS requests in a timely fashion. Our job processing queue…
New DNSimple Knowledge Base
DNSimple has a new Knowledge Base, available today at http://support.dnsimple.com. The knowledge base has questions and answers about DNS, domains, SSL certificates and more. We’ve tried to do our best to provide useful answers that can help beyond DNSimple. We’ve seeded the knowledge base with questions that many of our customers have asked us, but…
Things to Know About Transferring a Domain
Transferring a domain from one registrar (like GoDaddy) to another (like DNSimple) can be a scary thing. You have domain names that you want to make sure stay operational during the transfer and you want to know that your domain will be safe. I’ve put together this blog post to help clarify how the transfer…