8 Million Downloads and Counting

No-IP’s Windows 2.1 update client has broken the 8 million download mark. A big thanks you to all of our loyal customers.

The No-IP dynamic dns update client (DUC) is the application that you run on the computer or server that you are trying to access remotely. The DUC will check your current IP address and notify No-IP to update your host names when a change occurs.

Windows DUC at Download.com

Antispam Policy Exceptions

A new mail feature has been added! Now you can specifically block or permit senders by IP, email address, or domain at the SMTP level. This means that you can use greylisting but let facebook emails skip it. Tired of backscatter from the same mail servers? Add their IP addresses to the block list and never see that email again. Friend ends up on an RBL but you want to receive email from him anyway, add his IP to your allow list. You can now be more strict in your policy requirements but permit the people you normally email to skip the policy checks. More email, less spam. The way it should be.

To manage your Antispam Policy Exceptions, log into your No-IP.com account and click Mail then Configure for your domain. Click the Antispam Policies button then Policy Exceptions.

Antispam Policy Exceptions apply to all inbound mail services including POP3, Forwarding, Backup MX, and Reflector.

Don’t have our email service but want to try it out? Buy it now here.

Linux 2.1.9 Client is now available

No-IP has released an updated version of the Linux Dynamic Update Client (DUC). A potential vulnerability for buffer overflow has been discovered in the current Linux version of the client. The buffer overflow vulnerability can possibly be exploited to compromise a user’s computer for the execution of arbitrary code. Older versions of the Linux client are affected too. This vulnerability can be exploited if attacker tricks a user to connect to a fake update No-IP dynamic update server.

No-IP recommends all users running the older version of the Linux DUC 2.1.1 through 2.1.8 to upgrade to the 2.1.9 version and re-run the configuration wizard. This is done by invoking “noip2 -C” at the prompt.

The newest version is available on our website or by following this link.

.ME Registry Removes Minimum Year Requirement.

The .me registry removed their 2 year minimum for registering new domains on Oct 1, 2008. So you can now register .me domains for just 1 year. Our base price is just $29.95 per year. Keep in mind that if you package your .me with No-IP Plus Managed DNS you will receive an $8.00 discount.

Search for your .me today!

.Me TLD To Go Live.

.ME is about YOU! .ME has incredible potential for Internet users world-wide. Think about it, with a .ME domain, the Internet will, quite simply, be all about YOU. For the first time in Internet history, domain names are essentially personal.

.ME is expected to be utilized as both a personalized Web address and as a catchy business marketing tool around the world, initially in English

In just a few moments we will begin open registration on the new .me TLD, 8:00 AM PDT to be exact. So stand by and grab that .me domain soon as there should be some pretty good names available.

Weeeee.. Awesome New POP3 Pricing!

We are very excited to announce our new and updated lower pricing on our business class POP3 service!

Take advantage of No-IP’s advanced spam and virus filtering and over 25 x the space.

The new pricing structure for POP3 is as follows:

  1. 100MB of Storage 1 Mailbox $19.95 per year
  2. 1000MB of Storage 5 Mailboxes $39.95 per year
  3. 2000MB of Storage 100 Mailboxes $59.95 per year
  4. 2000MB of Storage 500 Mailboes $129.95 per year

Additional storage for just $19.95 per GB.

All current users have been update to the current pricing structure base on current storage and mailbox usage. We hope you enjoy the extra space and welcome your comments.

For more information visit our POP3 Mail Service product page.

Lower Mail Forwarding Pricing !!

Long time no post, but we are still alive over here.. 🙂 Enough with the excuses, here is some news that everyone should like: We’ve LOWERED our pricing on our Mail Forwarding service!

Mail Forwarding Pricing is as follows per domain:

  • 5 Mail Forwards: $9.95
  • 100 Mail Forwards $19.95
  • Unlimited Forwards: $34.95

Mail forwarding is a great complement to our Managed, Free and Enhanced DNS services. Take the hassle out of running your own mail server!

Existing forwarding users that had more than 5 forwards before the price change now get 100 and will renew at the lower price.

Visit our services page for more information.

We hope you enjoy the new mail forwarding pricing!

Cheers!

Where’s the beef?

Well, the beef is in the form of some recent database upgrades!!

Today we put into production additional database servers with faster disks, beefier processors, and many gigs o’ram.

Let us know how the site feels. Faster we hope! 🙂

NS3 and NS4 IP address change

In effort to expand our infrastructure and provide even better service to our customers there has been an ip address change to two of our nameservers: ns3.no-ip.com and ns4.no-ip.com.

The IP address change for NS3 and NS4 are:

ns3.no-ip.com 69.65.5.106

ns4.no-ip.com 72.5.169.6

These changes primarily effect our No-IP Squared customers, however for any Managed DNS customers who are using vanity nameserver names this may effect you as well.

The old address will continue to provide resolution while customers migrate to the new address.  We will be disabling the old address on April 8, 2008.

This is part of our planned network upgrade at our Oakland and Chicago data centers.

Have questions regarding the change? Contact our support team now.

Upgrades!!!

Well its been a while since our last blog entry so we wanted to update everyone.

WE GOT UPGRADES!

We are proud to announce that on 11/27/2007 that we replaced both of the air filters in the heating units to our office. Yes it was a big deal and we are happy to say that no employees were injured during the upgrades. Also on a much less impressive note, we added two additional DNS servers to better serve our customers and increase reliability.

With 2008 around the corner we are hoping to update the blog more often. We have some big things on the way for 2008. Just to give you a hint, it begins with an “A” and ends with a “T”.