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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. Looking for alternatives by BDeblier · · Score: 5, Insightful

    As a Dyn customer, who refuses to give even one lousy cent to Oracle, I'll be on the lookout for alternatives. Suggestions are welcome.

  2. Seems extreme quick unless it was already underway by raymorris · · Score: 5, Insightful

    When I've sold even the tiniest companies, with just two or three employees, it took a few months from initial discussion to a public announcement. I'd be very surprised if a deal this size was done in a month or two. I'd think they probably had a memorandum of understanding, setting a price subject to due diligence, six months ago.

  3. They keep using that word. by Osiris+Ani · · Score: 4, Insightful

    “We've also asked for a comment from Oracle about Dyn's recent breach”

    Since when does a DDoS qualify as a “breach?”

  4. Sigh by ledow · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Ba-da dum-dum-dum. Another one bites the dust...

    Sorry Dyn. I was a customer of yours. But everything that Oracle touches is to eliminate competition and kill the products that existed.

    It was nice knowing you.

    Anyone know of a way to set up your own Dyn-compatible dynamic DNS system? I have a remote server, and a way to change the dyndns.org URLs in use but I think the protocol is undocumented or certain without available SERVER software (client software is another matter).

    And most of the things I want to change that use it are hardcoded into the Dyn protocols, so I can't just "use something else", even if the devices allow the end-address to be changed to my own server.

  5. Re:CDOS? by Big+Hairy+Ian · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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

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