Hello users!

If you were online 7/21/17 you should have received an announcement via XMPP about the new domains that were being added.

As of a couple days ago I’m happy to say they’ve been setup for public use and you can register an account on any of them you’d like. If someone has taken a cool username on say, @xmpp.is you could just register it on @xmpp.co, @xmpp.cx & @xmpp.xyz vice versa. All of the domains support DNSSEC and the same security practices have been applied (no logs kept, full disk encryption, PFS supported & TLS required). All requests go to the same server specifically so communicating between these domains is even more secure. If you’re interested in grabbing an account go to the register page!

I’d also like to mention that the site and XMPP server (Prosody) now entirely use Let’s Encrypt. In the past I wasn’t able to automate the renewal of certificates because Prosody would have to be restarted every time the cert was renewed (every 3 months). To minimize downtime I found that you could just reload the Prosody TLS module when reloading the service using mod_reload_modules. This seemed to work flawlessly in tests. Along with this, a systemd service for renewals and my new script, all certs are now provided by Let’s Encrypt!

Hello users!

I’d just like to thank everyone who donated via PayPal & Bitcoin recently. We have finally hit our donation goal of $40 (PayPal) and I received a generous $20 Bitcoin donation last week. I’ll be increasing the goal every time it is hit from now on. This will help us properly keep track of the amount of PayPal donations we receive. I’m planning to use the money to buy new domains for XMPP.is, that people will be able to use primarily for XMPP accounts. If you have any ideas for a domain, let me know! I already own the domain “xmpp.co” but looking to acquire others, even buy them from others if needed.

In other news… I have since disabled the Prosody throttle_presence module because it was very buggy and generating a massive amount of error logs. I’ve also added a few more donations methods including Ethereum, Litecoin and Auroracoin which you can find at xmpp.is/donate.