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As we all know, tonight was Super Bowl 44 in the United States. After an amazing recovery from behind, the New Orleans Saints took the game 31 to 17 over the Indianapolis Colts. During the course of the game, Dyn Inc.'s own network operations team was standing by to monitor the health of the Internet as a whole, and how our DNS operations ran throughout the event. Since we have some huge brands and companies using our DNS platforms, we wanted to put in the effort to make sure things were running smoothly.

It's official: We're now less than 48 hours away from one of the biggest holidays of the year, a time where online merchants are at their peak sales, and where security, sometimes, becomes less of a concern to everyone. I'm writing this post today to remind everyone that during this cheerful season of giving, to stay secure when online.

Today, Dyn Inc. announced DynDNS.com Internet Guide, our very own way to help the geeks of the world protect those that they love, while having a stable, fast, and redundant Recursive DNS service they themselves enjoy using.

Wow! It's been a crazy and hectic past 24 hours for a lot of people out there on the Internet. Unless you live under a rock, you've heard about some high profile Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks against major web properties such as Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal, and even our own DynDNS.com MyWebHop Service.

With all the buzz about how the Internet experienced an unprecedented “slow down” yesterday, as people searched for information about the King of Pop - never has the need for reliable DNS and Traffic Management solutions been so relevant.

Last week, I attended the Interop Expo in Las Vegas, NV. Not only was it a great opportunity for Dyn Inc. to show off our chops with our stylish new booth, but it was a good chance for our technical staff to go geek out with some very cool and exciting product and service vendors. In this post, I’ll review some of the cool things we saw.

This past February, around 100 DNS industry experts met in Atlanta, GA for the “The Global DNS Security, Stability, & Resiliency Symposium.” Organized by ICANN and hosted by Georgia Tech, this event was to strengthen personal relationships between operators and review what we know about the DNS infrastructure.

This morning, our Dynect Platform monitoring system noticed a problem, a big one. From our global perspective, it appears that many online services, including amazon.com (the store, AWS, and S3), salesforce.com, advertisting.com, and petco.com, had some serious DNS troubles. As many of our readers know, DNS is the glue that binds domain names, like dynect.com to their respective server’s IP addresses (204.13.248.122).

This week, IANA launched it’s Interim Trust Anchor Repository. As described:

Last week, we announced IPv6 DNS resolution support for DynDNS.com Custom and Secondary DNS customers by introducing a new nameserver, ns2.v6.mydyndns.org. By including ns2.v6.dyndns.org in your domain’s delegation, you’re adding a nameserver hostname which points to 2607:f590:f2::2, via a DNS AAAA resource record. Just so you know, AAAA resource records point hostnames to IPv6 addresses.