Dynamic Discourse

Dynamic Discourse is the blog of Dyn Inc. and contains content about DNS, email, Internet traffic management, routing, and other topics from Dyn Inc. staff.

There is More to DNS Than Just DNS. Why Companies Pay for it and How They Actually SAVE Money on the Dynect Platform

06 Mar 2010

How Active Failover, Load Balancing, Global Server Load Balancing and CDN Management are done in the cloud.

I’m not going to spill the beans on that first sub-head just yet. Read this intro, first!

Hiring in an Access-Driven World

23 Feb 2010

Below you will find an email that was just sent out to UNH (the largest state school in New Hampshire where our Biz Dev Manager, Josh graduated from). Emails have also been sent to Bentley University (my alma mater where I spoke on a sales and management panel yesterday) and SNHU (the local university where many of our interns come from and our Strategic Partner Manager, Brian Brady, got his degree) in an effort to find a Business Development Representative (BDR) for our fast-growing Internet business in Manchester, NH. We tweeted this call-to-action out as well: http://bit.ly/bDLVBW

Keeping it Real... Social

16 Feb 2010

Encouraging Users to "Tweet Nerdy to Me"

We've been getting a lot of great props over the past month regarding our utilization of social media channels and I wanted to use Discourse to ensure that our audience at Dyn.com got a chance to see what all the buzz is about and continue to learn more about why we made the SM shift and dove in with both feet.

Go Saints! Winners of Super Bowl 44!

08 Feb 2010

As we all know, tonight was Super Bowl 44 in the United States. After an amazing recovery from behind, the New Orleans Saints took the game 31 to 17 over the Indianapolis Colts. During the course of the game, Dyn Inc.'s own network operations team was standing by to monitor the health of the Internet as a whole, and how our DNS operations ran throughout the event. Since we have some huge brands and companies using our DNS platforms, we wanted to put in the effort to make sure things were running smoothly.

The DNS Space is About to Become More Transparent with DNSComparison

05 Feb 2010

Let's Hope it's Legit. We're Ready to Lead the Charge

We recently received some communication about a new website aimed to bring transparency to the world of managed DNS. This 3rd party site's objective appears to be to about "comparing facts, numbers, statistics," with no spin, sales bias, marketing fluff, or the new term I recently learned, "marchitecture."

Is There No Longer Such a Thing as an Individual Contributor?

04 Feb 2010

Now that content channels like Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Flickr and Facebook are combining forces with blogs, community forums, SEM, specialty IT help sites and news sources specific to the Web 2.0 and Social Media space (i.e.

What's Next for EveryDNS Users

04 Feb 2010

Welcome to the family. What’s next?

Dyn Inc. Users and Customers Come First, Part 2

17 Jan 2010

About a month ago our VP of Sales and Marketing, Kyle York, blogged about how at Dyn Inc. we put our customers first – that we try our best to be transparent to all customers and prospects. I wanted to take some time this Sunday afternoon to respond and expand on his initial blog - Dyn Inc. Users and Customers Come First.

Help Us Reach a Larger Audience. Please Continue the Word of Mouth.

11 Jan 2010

For nearly 12 years technology die-hards have used our services to do a ton of very cool things that everyone (not just the super techie) would love to make happen, but may not know how to accomplish. Until now, most of the world outside of our core users and fans probably had no clue the types of solutions Dyn Inc. offers. DNS? Dynamic DNS?

Welcome EveryDNS users to Dyn Inc., we're excited to have you!

07 Jan 2010

As you may have read, Dyn Inc. announced this morning that is has acquired EveryDNS. Dyn Inc. and EveryDNS have long shared common goals in the DNS industry, making this an exciting time for all involved. As we begin the transition of domains over to the Dyn network, I wanted to personally welcome each of the 300,000 EveryDNS users to the Dyn Inc. family. We are truly excited to bring EveryDNS under the Dyn umbrella and look forward to delivering the outstanding customer service and world class network performance that we are known for.