Yahoo originally created Domain Keys as an authentication and validation technique for email using a PGP-like protocol. The original specification has since been improved to DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail) by the community and a series of IETF standards resulted in RFC 6376. DKIM makes it very easy for a mail server to validate whether an […]
More and more organizations are moving from the shorter 384, 512 and 768-bit keys up to 1024 and higher in order to protect against spoofing because the smaller keys are easier to crack. Our DNS system intuitively supports a 2048-bit key and larger. Simply paste it into the TXT record and hit save. Our back-end […]
Method: GET URI: /ALF/SSL/AppliedSSLCertKeyPairs/{pacId} This method will retrieve all of the Applied SSL CertKeyPairs for the specified pack. The {options} allow you to refine the results retrieved from the API. They must be formatted as a query string, e.g. if you use more than one, the 2nd one onwards should be preceded by an ampersand […]
Method: GET URI: /ALF/SSL/AvailableSSLCertKeyPairs/{companyId}/{pacId} This method will retrieve all of the available SSL CertKeyPairs. The {options} allow you to refine the results retrieved from the API. They must be formatted as a query string, e.g. if you use more than one, the 2nd one onwards should be preceded by an ampersand “&” character. The options […]
Total Uptime’s Cloud DNS Service supports 27 different DNS resource record types. That includes 26 standard record types and 1 special web-redirect type that we’ve created. Below is a comprehensive list of each record type which you can find in the Cloud DNS management interface. DNS SOA Record This is the “Start of Authority” resource […]
Version 3.4 of our Cloud Platform was released on March 16, 2014. It includes a significant number of new features and enhancements as well as bug fixes. Below is a complete rundown of the changes you’ll see today. New General System/Account Features: Password Reset: Previously, if a user forgot their password and did not have a […]
Our team spent the summer working on a number of significant improvements to our cloud platform to make it more intuitive and easier to use every day. Below is a summary of what we released today. DNSSEC: We’ve further automated DNSSEC signing. You can easily choose the DNSSEC parameters for your zone, and within a […]
There are hundreds of cloud and network provider outages every week, more than anyone ever realizes. To help convey the sheer volume of cloud provider and network provider outages, we’ve compiled this running post of the most notable ones in 2021 so far with a primary focus on North American providers, but coverage across the […]
Our star developers spent the last couple months working hard to knock out a couple annoying bugs and adding new features. This is a fairly significant platform update that also improves platform reliability and stability too. We hope you like it! New Webhook Feature: We added an often requested feature called HTTP Webhooks that allows […]
What is a PFX Certificate file? A PFX certificate file, also known as PKCS #12, is a combined file that contains the server certificate, intermediate certificate as well as the matching private key and is password protected. These files are typically used on Windows systems and if you already have a certificate and key on […]