Dyn Inc.
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| Type: | Privately Held |
| Industry: | IaaS provider |
| Founded: | 1998 |
| Headquarters: | 1230 Elm St. Fifth Floor Manchester, NH 03101 |
| Country: | USA |
| Employees: | 51-200 |
| Website: | Dyn.com |
| Blog: | Dynamic Discourse Blog |
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| Twitter: |  @DynInc
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| Key People | |
| Jeremy Hitchcock, CEO Graham Chynoweth, VP Business Operations/ General Counsel Tom Daly, CTO | |
Dyn, Inc. (Dynamic Network Services) is an IaaS and DNS services manager; they provide two different DNS platforms, one for individuals and small businesses, and the other for larger corporations.[1] They claim to be the world's fastest growing provider of managed DNS.[2]
Dyn's current clients include: Twitter, CNBC, Netflix, Photobucket, Gawker, Pandora, and Zappos. They all use their Dynect Platform.[3]
In June, 2009, it became the first managed DNS provider to offer its Dynect Platform clients DNSSEC.[4]
Beginnings
Dyn began in 1998 as a free service running out of a college apartment, at that time they offered users a DNS service capable of hosting a website from a home computer. As business continued to grow, they had to change their business model to be donation based. From there they became a recurring revenue SaaS company, until they realized, in 2005, that many prominent corporations were using their exclusive suite of software. Thus, they further catered their services to the corporate market, reassessed their financial requirements, and began to offer more unique options for DNS solutions.[5]
WikiLeaks
Dyn, Inc. was quickly wrapped up within the controversy of WikiLeaks' release of classified American documents as they provided web-hosting services for the site. Dyn stopped hosting Wikileaks on Dec. 2nd, 2010; Wikileaks had made its big release a month prior. Dyn has said it was forced to stop hosting the site after numerous DoS attacks, which put its ability to provide for its other 500,000 customers in jeopardy. [6]
Partners & Acquisitions
- Dyn started off 2010 by acquiring both EveryDNS and EditDns. The founder of EditDNS credited Dyn with making a smart acquisition, at a time when EditDNS was in trouble, and continuing to demonstrate its dedication to a secure DNS.[7]
- NTT America began an infrastructure partnership with Dyn in June, 2010.[8]
- Dyn acquired fellow Manchester-based IT company, SendLabs in January, 2011. Sendlabs allows Dyn to offer its clients outbound email services.[9]