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Or that Herr Fechner knows that a nastygram like this will please his customer who can be billed for writing, translating and sending it.
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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.
IANAL, but here's my assessment on this: First and foremost, as far as I know, a registrar disclosing customer data without a warrant would violate the law in Germany as well. For `.de`-Domains the holder information used to be publicly available, at the dismay of privacy activists; in the same way the ICANN wanted the same. Then GDPR came and pretty much put a legally binding end to this. And it comes down to this:…
Do you have an approximate translation of Abmahnanwalt? Google translate punts on it
(In short an 'Abmahnanwalt' is a lawyer who admonishes you for breaking certain rules and who can charge you for the service... quite close to 'Abschaum' in German dictionaries, as the basic idea may not really that bad, but it is heavily misused by some)
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>These guys are extraordinarily [...] professional. I think part of OP's complaint is they are not coming across as professional. It is entirely reasonable to take those stances but their tact is way off and definitely portrays their company in an unprofessional manner. They might be good at what they do, I wouldn't know personally, but they come off as edgy/abrasive/unprofessional and those two quotes alone would ha…
People have such a strange idea of "professionalism". It's about your principles and what you do, not the semantics and aesthetics.
The short explanation is that if shit goes wrong I don't want to deal with people who figure communication among clients should be handled that way.
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The EU claims that even companies not located in the EU are still subject to the GDPR. I don't think the GDPR is applicable in this case tho. It seems likely to pertain to the EU 'right to be forgotten' law(s).
If you are not dealing with an EU entity or an entity in a country with an agreement with the EU you have no right to be forgotten.
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…
As a practical matter seems unlikely that this particular law firm is going to go to the mat in terms of any possible enforcement action (and that assumes it can even be done or attempted by teaming up with a firm in Canada (where easydns is from what I am reading).
Very generally also I don't think it's a good idea for a company (and in particular a small company) to air publicly something like this. It leaks details on how they act and what they will do that could be used against them by another company in the future. In otherwise the publicity could end up being counterproductive.
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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.
the letter/mail is just plain threatening. copyright law in germany is in a bad state so be aware.
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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.
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…
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…