Original message, sent to all free accounts at 15-09-2005: -------------------------------------------------------------- From: PowerDNS Express (noreply) Subject: Concerning your PowerDNS Express account Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 16:03:04 +0200 (CEST) Dear , This message is to inform you of an important change concerning your PowerDNS Express account. PowerDNS Express currently provides free dns hosting for over 40.000 domains worldwide, and this number is still increasing every day. Unfortunately, we have been suffering from heavy abuse lately. Botnets, spammers using our mailforwards and repeated DOS attacks have increased our costs of running this service enormously. We regret to inform you that, in order to keep providing you with high quality DNS management, we are forced to stop all free services on PowerDNS Express as of today. As a result, your account needs to be upgraded. Because we would really like to keep you as our customer, we've lowered the prices of our paid services significantly! Have a look at http://express.powerdns.com/cshop.php for our new prices. Please login to your account first to purchase the appropriate packages and/or remove any unused domains. Starting October 15th, 2005 we will be disabling accounts that are over balance. Please login at: url: http://express.powerdns.com username: password: For managing large amount of domains, please contact our sales representatives at sales@powerdns.com. We appreciate that you have trusted your domains with us, and hope you keep doing so. Sincerely, The PowerDNS Express team.