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Oracle Buys Dyn DNS Provider (techcrunch.com)

Posted by msmash on from the big-shark,-small-shark dept.

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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  1. /. Headline 6 months from now by udachny · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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  2. CDOS? by swm · · Score: 5, Funny

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