Oracle Buys Dyn DNS Provider (techcrunch.com)

Oracle announced today it is buying DNS provider Dyn, a company that was in the press lately after it was hit by a large-scale DDoS attack in October that resulted in many popular websites becoming inaccessible. From a TechCrunch report:Oracle plans to add Dyn's DNS solution to its bigger cloud computing platform, which already sells/provides a variety of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) products. Oracle and Dyn didn't disclose the price of the deal but we are trying to find out. Dan Primack reports that it's around $600 million. We've also asked for a comment from Oracle about Dyn's recent breach, and whether the wheels were set in motion for this deal before or after the Mirai botnet attack in October.

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[udachny]

Expect lawsuits related to your free use of DNS. Now everybody who uses DNS owes Oracle 1 dollar per DNS lookup.

CDOS?

[swm]

If Oracle buys a DNS provider, does that constitute a centralized denial-of-service attack?

Re:CDOS?

[Curunir_wolf]

No but I do expect the quality of DNS to slip drastically as Oracle downgrade it to the same level as the rest of their products

Don't forget that down the line, if you're using an Oracle product, you're going to need to use the Oracle DNS service because that's the only one they support. DNS connection problems with your Oracle product? Yea, you're not using OracleDNS, so your whole stack is unsupported.