EasyDNS

easyDNS Technologies Inc. is a Canadian Internet service provider which supplies DNS and web hosting services.

easyDNS was incorporated in 1998 by co-founders Mark Jeftovic, Colin Viebrock and John Schmidt. It began as a pure managed DNS provider. In 2000 when ICANN opened domain registrations to competition it entered the domain registration space by becoming a Tucows/OpenSRS reseller. In 2001 when the .CA TLD transitioned to CIRA it became a CIRA certified registrar. In 2003 it became directly accredited under ICANN as a registrar. In 2005 Mark Jeftovic bought out his partners John Smith and Colin Viebrock.

The company has since entered the web hosting and email provider space.

In 2014 easyDNS acquired Zoneedit, another of the early DNS providers from Endurance International Group and continues to operate it as a stand-alone business unit.

In October 2013 a request from the UK Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit requested they redirect torrentpond.com to an IP address controlled by the PIPCU.

This request was refused due to having no legal basis. EasyDNS suggested that registrars that complied with the PIPCU's requests may have violated ICANN's transfer policies. and filed a request for enforcement with ICANN. Following this request, three domains suspended by Public Domain Registry were ordered to be transferred to EasyDNS.

In 2014, EasyDNS was at the centre of controversy due to its policy of refusing to take down web pages for unlicensed online pharmaceutical companies accused of selling controlled substances without a prescription. EasyDNS CEO Mark Jeftovic referred to the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy as a “batch of clowns” after it asked EasyDNS and other registrars to take down the websites unlicensed pharmacies without court orders. EasyDNS only reversed its policy after a man died after taking a "controlled substance" codeine phosphate purchased without a prescription from airmailchemist.com, an online drug seller registered through easyDNS Technologies Inc. The man's daughter wrote law enforcement saying: “This website killed my dad.” EasyDNS reversed its policy and now requires online pharmacies to provide proof that they are licensed.

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