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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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  1. Re:Looking for alternatives by Z00L00K · · Score: 4, Informative

    I have a service through http://www.enom.com/hosting/dn... which seems to work fine for me.

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  2. Re:Looking for alternatives by lactose99 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Been using https://www.zoneedit.com/ for years, although I'm on the cheaper end of the spectrum. Not sure how enterprise-y you need your DNS

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  3. Re: Another company to die a slow death under Orac by corychristison · · Score: 4, Informative

    How many domains?

    I am a customer of Softlayer, and their free (for customers) Anycast DNS service is absolutely fantastic. I piggyback my clients onto their DNS (~100 domains including my own) and we've never seen an issue.

    Another company I've had experience with is ClouDNS.net. I moved to softlayer simply because they offered Anycast and it was free with a server I'm renting from them. ClouDND.net now offers Anycast. I'm planning to use them as a secondary DNS in conjunction with Softlayer, because, well, redundancy.

  4. dns.he.net by higuita · · Score: 3, Informative

    dns.he.net

    it is free, works very well
    yes, it do not have all the features of dyn, but have what i need

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