Dyn Inc. Further Cements Position as Global Managed DNS Leader Through Acquisition of EveryDNS and Re-launch of Home/SMB Brand, DynDNS.com
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 email 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.
The Dynect Team – Raising the Bar on Service and Sales
You know when you’re a kid and your mom tells you not to worry about fitting in because eventually being yourself will pay off? Well we may not have listened back then either, but now we couldn’t be more thrilled to have taken mom’s advice and found our own road to success and smashing sales goals well into 2010.
Over the past 10+ years, Dyn Inc. has continued to transform — from a free service funded by donations to now an industry power player in the world of managed DNS, but our core values have stayed the same. How are we different? Well I’ll sum it up like this…how many other VP’s and CEO’s spend an afternoon writing Christmas cards to their clients? My guess is not many, but it’s the personal attention and true love of what we do that makes Dyn Inc. and the Dynect Platform the goal crushing power house that it is.
So just how lofty were our goals in 2009? “They were substantial to put it mildly”, said VP of Sales and Marketing Kyle York, “but we went into it as we always do, with no fear and complete faith in our solid platform and in the end we didn’t just hit our sales goals, we flew by them and grew the Dynect Platform to eight times its size.”
But the Dynect team couldn’t have done it alone. The success of this year wouldn’t have been as sweet had we not had some great clients to share it with. This year we brought on board great companies such as Zappos, HomeAway, Invite Media, Teavana, AudienceScience, Wikia, Meetup, Squarespace, Bluetie, Lucid Media, Bit.ly, Scribd, Chitika, and Stylefeeder — and we can’t wait get started on our pipeline for 2010. There’s no doubt we’ve developed a reputation, and are happy to report, it’s a good one!
DynDNS Community Site: Open for Business
After much anticipation we are happy to announce the doors to the new DynDNS community site have been swung wide open! Originally created as a place for users to share best practices, ask questions and communicate with other like-minded users, that idea remains the same, but with some additional “renovations” that we hope will take your experience to the next level.
Log in now and take a tour of these new features:
- Speeding up your search: Now when you log in you will see the most recent questions and posts on the main page giving you a quick snap shot of the latest happenings in the DynDNS community. If you’re looking for something more specific you can search questions and tags to find your exact topics of interest.
- Be an active voice: Reading and finding topics is only scratching the surface of how you can participate in the community. Whether you’re a subject matter expert or not, make sure to chime in and comment on topics of interest or start a new thread about what you are currently working on.
- Badges aren’t just for boy scouts: Are you a guru, generalist, tumbleweed or just plain legendary? As you participate in the DynDNS community you will find out. The more you participate the more you will be rewarded or at least labeled for your efforts, which creates a user profile that goes way beyond 50 words or less.
- Earn a reputation: The best reason for participating you ask? Total community domination…but you have to earn it. As you participate in discussions and offer helpful advice for your peers you will begin to develop your reputation, and a good reputation give you more control to edit, control and re-tag information.
These are just a few of the features we have added, but don’t take our word for it, log in and test it out for yourself – after all, the community site is for you and by you which makes the possibilities endless. As always, we would love to hear what you think of the new site and of course how to keep making it better.