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Re: EasyDNS threatened with criminal complaint if client data not disclosed

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Post by dubcanada »

FDSGSG wrote: post #101
otterley wrote: post #7

Attorney here! (Not legal advice, consult a licensed attorney in your jurisdiction.) Don't get me wrong, but easyDNS may be jumping hastily to conclusions. In many countries, soliciting business there makes you subject to its jurisdiction and laws, regardless of where your business is based. I don't know German law, but I hope that easyDNS consulted their own attorneys on the subject before publishing this post, or t…

Judging by their ToS, I wouldn't be so sure that easyDNS has attorneys.

You seem to really dislike easyDNS.

Re: EasyDNS threatened with criminal complaint if client data not disclosed

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Post by FDSGSG »

dubcanada wrote: post #127
FDSGSG wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Let me just further highlight this specific part: >we may also wildcard your DNS to localhost and set the TTL on your zone out to a year. You’ve been warned Maliciously tampering with customer DNS configs to DoS them for extended periods? Fucking incredible.

Correct me if I am wrong, but a TTL is specific to nameservers. So if you switch from easyDNS to say cloudflare your TTLs get completely reset and the caching does as well.

Firstly, in practice this would be very unlikely to affect a domain for an extended period of time, none of the big providers really treat TTLs like that. It's the mere spirit of the thing that counts.

However, I don't see why changing your nameservers would help if your resolver was always hitting a cache entry with a 1yr TTL.

Re: EasyDNS threatened with criminal complaint if client data not disclosed

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Post by geggam »

tzs wrote: post #87
garmaine wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nope, that's not how it works. They can simply sue you in the jurisdiction in which you live, getting a court order for you to reveal the information. Details of where it is hosted doesn't matter. Unless you don't mind serving indefinite jail time for contempt of court.

...first they have to find the jurisdiction in which you live. I think the idea here is to make the processes of finding that out harder.

...and more expensive only to find out there isnt an extradition treaty

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Post by dvtrn »

ransom1538 wrote: post #96
cj wrote: post #58

I've been harrassed by law firms in connection with photograph copyright claims. In my case it was a law firm in France who also had a presence in the US. It was a minor claim (they demanded $500). We took the image down immediately, but they continued to demand their cash "settlement" with multiple letters over a year (1 letter every 1-2 months, each one with increasingly aggressive wording). I eventually got on the…

Basic company idea. 0) Purchase office in East Texas. 1) Hire a few young lawyers (having difficulty finding work), 2) scan for companies that have 1 round of series A funding, 3) scan their website for any off domain image, 4) scan their website for any SMS sending, 5) if anything is found - send scary overnight letters demanding 4-5k The worst thing that you can do to THIS business idea is to take the letter and th…

Oh this has been a thing for quite a while now

https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3073117/man-pleads...

Though probably not to the level of detail that you've suggested

Re: EasyDNS threatened with criminal complaint if client data not disclosed

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Post by toast0 »

dubcanada wrote: post #127
FDSGSG wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Let me just further highlight this specific part: >we may also wildcard your DNS to localhost and set the TTL on your zone out to a year. You’ve been warned Maliciously tampering with customer DNS configs to DoS them for extended periods? Fucking incredible.

Correct me if I am wrong, but a TTL is specific to nameservers. So if you switch from easyDNS to say cloudflare your TTLs get completely reset and the caching does as well.

In theory, maybe? But if the TTL is 1 year, why would my caching resolver try to find the new nameservers?

Also, there's a long tail of totally garbage behavior in the DNS space. At my last job, as part of moving our domains off of Dyn/Oracle, we delegated the domains to our self hosting via the domain registry, and changed the NS records at Dyn to point only at our self hosting, but we were still seeing a steady trickle of traffic to Dyn after 30 days.

Re: EasyDNS threatened with criminal complaint if client data not disclosed

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Post by mywittyname »

FDSGSG wrote: post #84
crusso wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's unprofessional to let prospective customers know that EasyDNS is not a company that specializes in handling DDOS, so just keep looking for a company that can help you out? Seems refreshingly honest to me. And as a customer of theirs, I appreciate that they're looking to protect the infrastructure that I rely upon. Regarding that second part; if you do any kind of online service provision like EasyDNS, you'll qui…

> we may also wildcard your DNS to localhost and set the TTL on your zone out to a year. You’ve been warned No, this is simply indefensible. There's simply no way you could ever excuse this. Suspending a customer domain is OK, this is not.

It sounds like they are doing society a favor.

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Post by Marsymars »

nitwit005 wrote: post #68
nickodell wrote: post #53

EasyDNS's Plain English Terms of Service make them seem like a really unprofessional company: >We are NOT a DDoS Mitigation Service. [...] If you come on this system knowingly bringing a DDoS on your heels we shut down service (we may also wildcard your DNS to localhost and set the TTL on your zone out to a year. You’ve been warned). or >Guilt-by-Association: not only do we terminate any domains or websites which vio…

People complain about the incomprehensible legalese in terms of service all the time. Here you are complaining about a lack of legalese. Shows you why people just stick with the unreadable nonsense.

I quite like the NearlyFreeSpeech.NET terms of service: https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/about/terms

Re: EasyDNS threatened with criminal complaint if client data not disclosed

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Post by kd3 »

1000units wrote: post #3

Hopefully Herr Fechner loses his license to practice law in Germany. From what I see here, he is an unethical and incompetent attorney and a disgrace to the profession. RE: Herr Fechner of Fechner Law in Germany

His letter almost made me want to sieg heil.

Re: EasyDNS threatened with criminal complaint if client data not disclosed

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Post by FDSGSG »

mywittyname wrote: post #137
FDSGSG wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> we may also wildcard your DNS to localhost and set the TTL on your zone out to a year. You’ve been warned No, this is simply indefensible. There's simply no way you could ever excuse this. Suspending a customer domain is OK, this is not.

It sounds like they are doing society a favor.

By going after DDoS victims? Care to explain further?
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