http://yro.slashdot.org/story/14/07/01/0025220/microsoft-takes-down-no-ipcom-domains

 

 

oh

 

cant even log on!

Free service?

Nope. Thats affecting us on a subscription

I got an email this morning from No-IP . Luckily I am only using it for my own home CCTV and nothing else They do also have a free service the same as Dyn DNS used to

 

    We want to update all our loyal customers about the service outages that many of you are experiencing today. This is NOT A TECHINCAL ISSUE WITH NO-IP.
This morning, Microsoft served a federal court order and seized 22 of our most commonly used domains because they claimed that some of the subdomains have been abused by creators of malware. We were very surprised by this. We have a long history of proactively working with other companies when cases of alleged malicious activity have been reported to us. Unfortunately, Microsoft never contacted us or asked us to block any subdomains, even though we have an open line of communication with Microsoft corporate executives.

Not funny

Btw you can still get a single free dyn account by a back door method, again would only use for a mate etc...

Edited July 1, 201411 yr by datadiffusion

BBC article gives a different slant on this,

I've no idea why people would want to go down this route over a static IP

Just checked, it was only mine and a mates that uses one of the removed domains. 

 

Ha!

I've no idea why people would want to go down this route over a static IP

Because getting a a static IP on a domestic can be a pain. Sky refused to give me one

I've no idea why people would want to go down this route over a static IP

I have a static IP but its easier to remember a DNS like peterjames.noip.com  I dont have to write the number down anywhere. Also we have a guarding co that monitors our CCTV (I use Dyn DNS for them) they can see which site they are logging into because the dns is the name of the customer rather than a number