FreeDNS.WS

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Technical details of the incident with SPAMHAUS

For some reason SPAMHAUS decides that qhost.info and aaax.info are spammer`s domains and to be mercilessly struggled with. These both domains were registered through GoDaddy.com and their owners decided to use our service for putting zones into operation. It was natural to specify our NS for proper resolving. Which was done.

SPAMHAUS discovers such crying disgrace and writes an abuse to us as well as to Hosting.UA and Akanoc.com. Consequently both hosting companies threat us with shutdown. And we fairly put qhost.info and aaax.info zones into suspend mode and stop resolving them, and above that we close accounts from which these zones were registered.

It seems that conflict is closed, everyone's happy, zones don't resolve, spam is not sended. However, in a month SPAMHAUS discovers that evil was not beaten to the grounds and that domains qhost.info and aaax.info are still using our NS! Instead of writing abuse to GoDaddy.com which is able to correct this situation, SPAMHAUS sends another abuse to Hosting.UA and
Akanoc.com. As result we`re simply cut off because of "recurring violation" of some rules or "inobservance" and "non-fulfilment". And nobody was able to clear the situation.

And the NS specified for qhost.info - aaax.info are point to our service still

Monday, May 25, 2009

Free services, spammers and zealous fighters for "clean" Internet.

Free services, spammers and zealous fighters for the "clean" Internet.
How do we fight with spam today?

The typical scenario has following stages:
1. A department operating with spam database receives a complaint against a web-site
2. According to this complaint large blocks of the hoster’s IP adresses are set as blocked.
As a result, ALL clients of the hosting-provider face troubles with outgoing e-mails.
3. The hosting provider has no choice but to switch off the server "responsible for the crime"
 
4. Here comes the showdown: hoster contacts spam-fighters who black-listed his adresses.
5. Hoster clears the skirt of, while his client blamed in spamming is forced to look for a new hoster as its server is shoot down.
 
Our free service has experienced above-mentioned situation recently.
We lost the hosting, our clients got problems with domain access ....
We solved the problem by moving to a new hosting for our service.
Our examining department thoroughly monitors our clients regarding spam
activities and other cyber crimes. Life goes on.

P.S. It should be recognized that modern methods of "struggle against a spam" deal more with struggling consequences and not the sources and reasons. Decisions on sanctions are accepted not always by competent people and bear not constructive but more destructive character. The organization of such activities requires a formation of hosting-providers instead of "the noncommercial organizations" trading bases and a software.

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Launching new NS server - NS4.FREEDNS.WS

It is a big pleasure to inform you that another NS server has been placed into production - NS4.FREEDNS.WS. The hardware has been granted by Pilosoft - one of the oldest hosting company. Pilosft provides inexpensive quality servers to webmasters more then 7 years. Free DNS Hosting service FreeDNS.ws has been launched not so ago and get more than 10,000 users. It's worth to say that our services will be forever free. At your service!

Full list of our NS servers now is:

ns1.freedns.ws
ns2.freedns.ws
ns3.freedns.ws
ns4.freedns.ws

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

And one more free advice from our team

We are glad to introduce new free service for Internet-community: FFF.TO — free visitors redirection service (or URL shortinizer). It is very useful for:

  • make long or very long urls short
  • allow registered users to track statistics on visitors of their short URLs
  • helps to control traffic and visitors flow: you may redirect users to several different resources from one link.
  • hides referral codes which may increase referral earnings up to 30%.
  • Constantly improving. If you think that it will be useful to taught the service for something else - let us know. Useful features will be implemented immediately.
See its web-site for further details.

NS3 have arrived! Thanks to our sponsors.

Thanks to AdvancedHosters company, which provides quality hosting services for individuals
and for enterprise clients, we have got a powerful server for NS3.

We highly recommend to all our users to add this record (ns3.freedns.ws) to domains, which are served by FreeDNS.ws

Full list of our NS servers now is:

  • ns1.freedns.ws
  • ns2.freedns.ws
  • ns3.freedns.ws

Free DNS became more social!

As you might have noticed our blog has been moved to blogger.com. We are big fans of services from Google. Users of our free service could appreciate usability of one-click setup of their Google mail under own domain. And someone even learned about that feature from us. And in choosing between WordPress and Blogger the latest have won. Also you may follow the latest news from us through FeedBurner and Twitter.

Publication of tutorials on YouTube is in our nearest plans.

Sunday, August 17, 2008

Fixed SOA Record

We have fixed a problem with SOA record. Thanks for our member Harliff for pointing that out

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