We can tell you about DNS services for days, but how about taking our clients’ words for it? Here’s a selection of case studies from a wide variety of companies who were looking for a better managed DNS solution.
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As their traffic and queries per second grew at an unprecedented rate, DynECT Managed DNS allowed Twitter to seamlessly transition to a secure and stable enterprise level solution. The transition has allowed Twitter to take advantage of delivering better network performance and traffic management, because they’re kind of a big deal these days.
Etsy
With over 14 million members, 800,000 active shops, 40 million unique visitors, over $525 million in annual sales and 1.4 billion page views per month, Etsy is truly the world’s most vibrant handmade marketplace. In 2010, they needed a true managed DNS provider and one they could trust with their growing brand. Dyn was happy to help.
37signals
Over one million people and businesses rely on 37signals’ web-based applications to get things done the simple way. Their web presence is critical to the success of their company and products. Simply put, downtime is not an option and that’s why they chose Dyn.
SpilGames
When one of the world’s largest online gaming sites needed a managed DNS provider that could handle 170 million unique users a month, they knew the choice was obvious: Dyn. Here’s the story of what frustrated them about their old provider and why they compliment their new service on a daily basis.
RichRelevance
Powering personalized shopping experiences for brands like WalMart, Target and Overstock.com, RichRelevance serves more than 3.5 billion recommendations per month. When they got tired of dealing with expensive prices, outages and a relationship driven by contracts instead of a relationship, they looked high and low for a new outsourced DNS provider. They found Dyn.
D-Link
As broadband adoption has increased, D-Link customers have relied on their home and small business routers to provide services that enable customers to host content and support remote computer access. A critical requirement to making this work is dynamic DNS, used to map a domain name to the customer’s computer IP address. That’s why they looked to DynECT Managed DNS to help.
CNBC
CNBC Director of Platforms Rashid Karimov authored this extensive study on how CNBC was able to improve response time, have better control over traffic and better utilization of internal data centers and more through working with Dyn’s managed/outsourced DNS services.
AudienceScience
AudienceScience had two key goals: decrease costs and DNS query latency while effectively limiting staffing, expertise, hardware, power and cooling. Those were met using DynECT Managed DNS, freeing up rack space by switching from a hardware-based system to a DNS cloud service.
Distil
As Distil continues on its path of being the first SaaS platform to offer prevention against Internet scraping attacks, they needed to have 100% confidence in their DNS platform. But their CEO was a former salesman and knew the tricks of the trade. Luckily, he found Dyn and the rest is managed DNS history.
BT
BT is one of the world’s largest Internet Service Providers with operations in more than 170 countries. But even a company of that size needs some great partners that can help with uptime and especially with their unique needs. Learn how Dyn was able to help this telecom giant out.
Carbonmade
With an explosion of users and data, Carbonmade was growing tired of making apologies to its customers for website downtime. They needed a managed DNS provider that could scale and chase their downtime nightmares away forever. Mission accomplished.
Edgecast
The CDN of EdgeCast, alongside the power of DynECT Managed DNS, means that clients can work full throttle with full confidence of 100% uptime. Together, EdgeCast and Dyn provide flexible cost, unmatched reliability and high-quality media content delivery.
inkFrog
inkFrog offers auction management applications for eBay users, making it easier for sellers to create professional looking listings, monitor their listings and contact winning bidders. Since 1999, inkFrog has helped thousands of eBay sellers handle tens of thousands of transactions, increasing sales and improving customer relations.
Smowtion
As a growing fixture in the ad network space, Smowtion’s bread and butter comes from being able to link advertisers with the right audience in the fastest and most efficient way possible. In order to do this, they needed a 3rd party DNS provider that specializes in speed.
The GLOBE Program
With cyber crime on the rise, .gov domains have been mandated to adopt DNSSEC security extensions. By using DynECT Managed DNS, the GLOBE Program was able to accomplish this mandate on time with no additional cost or worry.