Nyr

There are professional labs offering free testing in The Netherlands, Spain and other European countries.

You have low latency since Portugal is pretty close to Germany where the servers are, compared to America or Asia.

If they want to promise low latency, they should use anycast with servers around the world. Google for example does this.

I compiled a list of reliable, anycast DNS recursors some time ago: http://wiki.nyr.bz/dns_publicos

Obviously yes. Even for an anycast network like CloudFlare. Not that they can't mitigate it, but it's hard and not free to do so.

Yes, it is. But DDoS attacks to EU or the US aren't launched from China/Africa anyway.

You need relatively low capacity to start an amplification attack, so a server at some ISP which doesn't care is enough. There are some ISPs which knowingly allow this, like Ecatel in The Netherlands which is probably the most notorious example.

Apparently they wanted to change the name servers: https://twitter.com/Official_SEA16/status/431210310003724288

I am from Spain and I operate with USD only.

My main motivation isn't the crisis, but don't asume that all europeans are trading in EUR ;)

And following the announcement, the blog it's down and emails didn't arrived yet. Well done, Evernote.

Yeah, but hosting services expire too, not only domains. Anyway, archive.org already crawled the entire website: http://web.archive.org/web/20121028095100/http://www.aaronsw...

That wasn't the first time they cooperated with law enforcement.

One thing it's a "private communications" service and other a bulletproof one.

He owns one large ISP in Austria and has multiple personal projects. And no judge has ever said that running a Tor exit node isn't legal AFAIK.

If he owns the equipment and runs the service, he could put his business at risk, yeah.

If he leases the hardware to a third individual and that third person/organization runs an exit node, then he is at a safe harbor.

I have experience running Tor nodes and can help if he is interested.

My suggestion makes sense since they are a very big ISP and they simply don't care about the cost of a service that they would need to provide to their clients anyway.

Namecheap does the same and most people think that they provide a good service.

Seriously, pay if you want, but if you aren't Google, you don't need to pay for reliable DNS hosting.

Free and reliable alternative from another big ISP: https://dns.he.net/

At the end of the day, all the mentioned companies need to trust their domain name registrations to someone and just like normal people can use Namecheap or Gandi as their domain name registrar, big companies seem to use MarkMonitor because the services they provide are useful to them.

Last.fm also uses MarkMonitor and they explained why here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3687600

CloudFlare promotes their service as a highly redundant CDN but the truth is that this isn't the first outage and they fail at very simple things.

I was using them until one day, they had routing problems with their DNS servers to some parts of the world (about 20% IIRC). This shouldn't be a issue except because all the name servers they provide were routing to the same network, making all my services unavailable for more than one hour. Yes, they have anycast and all that cool things, but if they fail providing real redundancy for DNS, I can't be their customer anymore.

Under my opinion, what is stupid is people who buys a new smartphone each year because the older one seems no longer useful with the more megapixels and megahertzs of the new one.

Seriously, does anyone need a new Galaxy S? I don't want to believe that any smartphone user needs something more powerful than the current Galaxy S II.

You want to drop another 600 bucks on a new smartphone? That's fine then, but you probably don't need it.

Internet.bs is a good choice if you want a safe domain name registrar. They are based in the Bahamas and the staff is composed by people from Europe and South America.

Getting a "secure" swiss domain name with a registrar in the USA isn't probably the best idea ;)

"Given the value that we get out of TextMate, it’s already grossly underpriced. Please let us give you more money"

The value for you isn't probably the same for all the customers.

Some people make millions from the work of the Apache Foundation for example but others use their web server to run little websites. Some would probably pay tons of money for it, others won't.

I am not saying that a upgrade fee for TextMate 2 will not be fair, but that is solely at the author's discretion.