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Posted by davidu at 8:00am PST on 01-07-2010
 
Latest Update: I am very happy to share the following good news for EveryDNS users. I will be sending an email with more details later today.

Dyn Inc. Further Cements Position as Global Managed DNS Leader

LAS VEGAS, NV – Dynamic Network Services Inc. (Dyn Inc.), the world’s fastest growing managed DNS provider, based in Manchester, NH, announced today at CES Las Vegas that it has acquired DNS service provider EveryDNS. Corresponding with the first acquisition in Dyn Inc.’s nearly 12-year history, the company also announced the re-launch of its signature home/SMB brand, DynDNS.com. These two announcements solidify Dyn Inc.’s commitment to growth, reliability, outstanding customer service and dedicated response to industry demand.

EveryDNS was founded by DNS expert David Ulevitch, who has run the company, and the over 300,000 domains it supports for nine years. Since their respective inceptions, Dyn Inc. in 1998 and EveryDNS in 2001, the companies have shared in the commitment of offering highly reliable, secure and easy to use DNS services. This shared history and alignment of goals has led to an exciting and historic moment for both companies.

“We obsess everyday over how to better serve our customers. This is an extremely strategic and monumental move for our organization. We aim to be the only authoritative DNS service provider with a DNS solution for everyone, from the home user to the enterprise,” commented Jeremy Hitchcock, Dyn Inc. CEO. “The acquisition of EveryDNS immediately and significantly expands the number of domains under our trusted watch and helps continue the consolidation in our space. Today is a banner day in the history of Dyn Inc. and a noteworthy day for the DNS industry as a whole.”

Dyn Inc.’s corporate objective is to offer DNS services for home users (DynDNS.com) to Fortune 500 enterprises (the Dynect Platform) and every consumer, consultant, small business, fast growth organization and mid-sized corporation in between. Dyn Inc. has had to redefine the word “enterprise” as more Web 2.0 companies are operating extremely high traffic websites and applications with minimal staff and yet-to-be-monetized technology. Dyn Inc. has established itself as the industry leader for virtual companies needing to scale rapidly with unpredictable demands on their Internet infrastructure.

EveryDNS founder David Ulevitch is highly respected as a DNS industry mainstay. His selection of Dyn Inc., among several potential suitors, solidifies Dyn Inc.’s position as the leader in the home/SMB market. “I chose Dyn Inc. as the home for all 300,000 EveryDNS users because of Dyn’s great people, great customer support and great technology on DynDNS.com and the Dynect Platform. I’m confident the EveryDNS user base will benefit from this acquisition in both the near and long-term and I’m excited to work with Dyn Inc. on what will be a very smooth transition.”

In conjunction with the EveryDNS acquisition, Dyn Inc. is re-launching DynDNS.com, its home/SMB brand. DynDNS.com has set the standard for enabling elite geeks to remotely access their desktops and host websites on their home computers. “We love catering to the hard core technologist,” said Kyle York, Dyn Inc. VP, Sales and Marketing “Go to any technology conference, from Interop to Web 2.0, and attendees are familiar with DynDNS.com. The purpose of the re-launch is to make Dyn Inc.’s technology accessible to a broader audience, to let more people see how the technology can be used and to enable our users to connect with one another.”

“In 2010, we're looking to expand our reach and help not only the elite DNS geeks, but broaden the types of users who can benefit from our services. Just look around CES, everyone wants to see their web cam while away on travel or to be able to change their home DVR recording schedule while they are at work. Today, many people don’t know that Dynamic DNS is a technology that powers remote connectivity for applications. In 2010 they will,” said Cory von Wallenstein, VP, Product Management at Dyn Inc.

“We are especially excited that the re-launch of DynDNS.com has arrived just in time to welcome the over 400,000 domains and 300,000 users that EveryDNS supported on its service. The DynDNS community, including our passionate in-house DNS experts and incredibly engaged user base, is pumped to welcome our newest members,” added York. Dyn Inc. plans to offer e-mail support to EveryDNS users while migrating domains to Dyn Inc.’s DynDNS Custom DNS service. DynDNS.com delivers superior customer service, increased record types, and complimentary services like: Domain Registration, Mailhop Outbound, SSL Certificates and Spring Server VPS that will provide EveryDNS users with a one stop shop for their IT service needs.

Dyn Inc.’s Dynect Platform will also serve as an upgrade alternative for corporations and enterprises looking to enhance their authoritative DNS efforts. The Dynect Platform is a globally redundant IP anycast DNS network with advanced features including: Active Failover, Round Robin Load Balancing, Global Traffic Management and CDN Manager. Customers benefiting from these premium DNS services include Zappos, Homeaway, Restaurant.com, Twitter, Wikia, Teavana and Freshbooks.


Posted by davidu at 11:42pm PST on 03-01-2008
 
We just had a mini-hackathon as a part of a larger overhaul and have released AAAA support for all users. Have a good time and enjoy your transition to IPv6. :-)



Posted by davidu at 7:42am PST on 02-10-2008
 
Our primary webserver in San Diego died this sometime yesterday making the site inaccessible. DNS was served from our servers around the globe during this time with no interruption. We have a backup webserver in San Francisco but a few things made transitioning to it nearly impossible. To add to the frustration, Level 3 has removed all on-site staff from their San Diego datacenter facility and I had no way to get someone down there quickly to fix it. We will be taking steps to resolve all these issues shortly. I sincerely apologize for this website outage. If you'd like to speed up the process for us deploying some new hardware, feel free to donate. :-)



Posted by davidu at 9:33am PST on 07-09-2007
 
There is a nice profile on some of the work I've done with the DNS over at the New York Times. Thanks to John Markoff for writing a great article.



Posted by davidu at 4:43am PST on 12-23-2006
 
I have enabled TXT record support for donators tonight. This is my way of beta testing it. Once I know it's solid, I'll open it up for everyone. Happy Holidays!



Posted by davidu at 11:05pm PST on 12-03-2006
 
EveryDNS suffered a large Denial of Service attack starting on Friday, December 1st. We have taken steps to mitigate the attack and service was restored within a few hours. There will be a more complete writeup posted on Monday, December 4th, 2006. This was our first major outage due to a DoS attack in quite some time. We are currently forming a plan to enhance our architecture to better deal with such a situation should it occur again. We take actions like this seriously and are working to find those responsible.



Posted by davidu at 12:52pm PST on 9-28-2006
 
Our webserver just got way overloaded and was pretty hard to access over the last couple hours. I've rebooted the machine and it's doing fine. I'll monitor the machine and we're going to ensure that it's stable. We will also ensure a failover webserver is properly configured in the future at a different location. There was no DNS outage during this problem as the web server does nothing besides serve webpages and do some email for us.



Posted by davidu at 9:19pm PST on 3-24-2006
 
All systems functioning normally. As a side note, our website can be accessed using a secure connection just by using HTTPS instead of HTTP.



Posted by davidu at 12:11pm PST on 3-23-2006
 
The DoS has been mostly mitigated. Hopefully things will be quiet for a bit... :-/

Summary: Throughout this attack DNS continued to be served although there were initial periods of latency across some of our nameservers. There were periods when we made our website inaccessible while we moved some services around or attempted to get a clearer picture of the attack. This was done to ensure continued operation of our DNS servers.


Here's an edited (for private data) chart of traffic sent to ns1 in San Diego over the last couple hours.

It also appears I am also being joe-jobbed with the EveryDNS URL being used in a bunch of spam sendouts. I assure you I have nothing to do with the spam. For those who don't know, a joe-job is when a spammer sends out spam with your email address or website in the spam to make it look like you're responsible.

If anyone has any information regarding those responsible for this annoyance I would like to know.


Posted by davidu at 10:49pm PST on 3-22-2006
 
The DoS has not stopped, unfortunately. I have taken steps to mitigate the damage it is causing by shifting services and servers. DNS resolution (while potentially a bit latent) should be fully operational. Please don't hesitate to email support or me directly with any issues you are seeing.

For those looking for a more technical description of our problem here is what I'll say publicly: It's roughly 36-40mbps consistently across many of our publicly facing nameservers. It isn't the bandwidth that is hurting us but the high packet-per-second rate and the spoofed nature of the UDP packets. Those of you familiar with DNS will immediately understand why this is non-trivial to filter. I along with the rest of the EveryDNS team will evaluate long-term strategies to ensure this doesn't recur.

It's going to be an expensive month and this not what I enjoy diverting our resources and money towards. (Less money for beer!)

If anyone has any information regarding those responsible for this annoyance I would like to know.

 
Posted by miked at 6:41pm PST on 3-22-2006
 
We are currently experiencing a denial of service attack against our nameservers. Measures are being taken to mitigate the attack and we expect to be fully recovered soon.

 
Posted by davidu at 5:06am PST on 12-28-2005
 

We have surpassed 78,000 users. Let's see the same reliable service continue in 2006! Happy Holidays.

Thanks!
davidu

 
Posted by davidu at 11:46pm PST on 04-07-2005
 
I'm currently investigating some slowness in our master DB server. My hunch is that a query that used to be fast is now slow. Since it's never been optimized there should be plenty of room to fix it. Expect it to be resolved shortly.

Update: I have slowed DNS updates to once every five minutes while I repair this. I will move than back to the old value when this issue is resolved. For most cases, this won't affect anyone.

Update: A few rewritten queries later and we're rockin'.

Thanks!
davidu

 
Posted by davidu at 5:42pm PST on 12-17-2004
 
Well, it had to happen. I made a mistake and took our website down for about an hour today. Of course, every nameserver was still updating, parked and webhop'ing zones were still online. Just the actual www.everydns.net page was down. We've very sorry and in addition, I feel sheepish it happened. Like most mistakes, this one was fully human error on the part of this human. :) Have a happy holiday season!
 
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