Dyn
| Type: | Privately Held |
| Founded: | USA, 1998 |
| Headquarters: | Manchester, New Hampshire, USA |
| Country: | USA |
| Employees: | 51-200 |
| Website: | dyn.com |
| Blog: | Blogs & News |
| Facebook: | Dynamic Network Services, Inc. |
| LinkedIn: | Dynamic Network Services, Inc. |
| Key People | |
| Jeremy Hitchcock, CEO Tom Daly, CTO | |
Dynamic Network Services, Inc., established in 1998 by a team of young technologists is a company offering web hosting services and sophisticated web technology solutions. The company uses DNS, domain registration and email services for domain name registries, enterprises, home users and small businesses.
Clients[edit | edit source]
Even though the company is rooted in consumer grade services, it also caters to TLDs and enterprises. The client base of Dyn, Inc. comprises businesses looking for a DNS platform, TLDs seeking IP Anycast DNS services and consumers who want online services.
History[edit | edit source]
The company has its roots in Internet infrastructure and they initially began with Domain Name System services. Later, they continued to expand in various other online infrastructure services that also include email delivery. Gradually, the company also went on to monetize services and began a free service using a college apartment as the first company site with a couple of young men. The service domain site was named DynDNS.org which operated as a dynamic DNS service provider catering to home users for hosting websites on home desktops or remote access to users PC. With the user base expanding and demands growing up, Dyn, Inc became a donation based service provider to add to their free services.
Later, the company acquired the SaaS (software-as-a-service) model offering a host of IT services targeting SMB/Home users market. In 2005, Dynamic Network Services began offering customer audit and mining services to 2 million users and finally introduced the Dynect Platform brand for offering premium externally managed DNS services to businesses. They began outsourcing to the market in 2007. In 2010, the company purchased three companies – SendLabs[1], EveryDNS[2] and EditDNS[3].
Services[edit | edit source]
The company offers core engineering services specializing in Apache, Python, FreeBSD, OpenVPN and Perl. Hardware and networking facilities and services are also offered as uninterrupted internet connections, air conditioning, power, operating conditions, authentication systems and security services.
Associations[edit | edit source]
Dynamic Network Services, Inc. maintain associations with following organizations -
- NANOG[4]
- Community College System of NH[5]
- ICANN[6]
- MAAWG[7]
- ABI (Amoskeag Business Incubator)[8]
- NHHTC[9]
- Stay Work Play[10]
- MYPN[11]
- IETF[12]
- US First[13]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ New Hampshire Business Review
- ↑ xconomy
- ↑ Yahoo Finance
- ↑ North American Network Operators' Group
- ↑ CCSNH
- ↑ Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
- ↑ Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group
- ↑ abi INNOVATION HUB
- ↑ New Hampshire High Technology Council
- ↑ Stay Work Play
- ↑ Manchester Young Professional Network
- ↑ The Internet Engineering Task Force
- ↑ USfirst