Jeremy Hitchcock's blog

As you may have read, Dyn Inc. announced this morning that is has acquired EveryDNS. Dyn Inc. and EveryDNS have long shared common goals in the DNS industry, making this an exciting time for all involved. As we begin the transition of domains over to the Dyn network, I wanted to personally welcome each of the 300,000 EveryDNS users to the Dyn Inc. family. We are truly excited to bring EveryDNS under the Dyn umbrella and look forward to delivering the outstanding customer service and world class network performance that we are known for.

2010 is going to be another amazing year for Dyn Inc. We added a number of facilities last year to speed our DNS delivery, provide additional capacity, and improve our traffic management services. This year, we plan to continue our expansion and want to use your collective input to help us decide.

This network is currently 12 global locations, which you can see our global, anycast DNS network. If you want to vote where we should go, please vote now!

Last week, I presented at Interop on "Failover and Global Server Load Balancing for Better Network Availability". It was a pretty fitting topic as a lot of attendees were looking at how to maximize their network without extra resources. It's been a continuation of do more with less.

Over the last few months, we enrolled into TRUSTe's Privacy Program. Recognizing that we are exposed to data that is yours based on what you provide and your actions with our site, we have a strict duty to keep that information secret and safe. By participating, we are being transparent about what gets collected and how it is made and kept private. It is the gold standard for privacy.

When we work with users to troubleshoot problems, it can be tricky to communicate without using the same tool. Especially for Windows users who do not have dig installed by default. (There is a dig for Windows which is free to download). To make things easier, we have created a web based DNS query tool which also supports direct links to queries.

We hope that this little soap box will give you a glimpse behind the scenes at Dynamic Network Services, what we’re up to and how we go about it. That might include tricky technical problems or what the office is like during a Friday night. Hope you enjoy.