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| website        = [http://dyn.com/ Dyn.com]

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[[Jeremy Hitchcock]], CEO<br>

[[Jeremy Hitchcock]], CEO<br>

Kyle York, CMO<br>

Kevin Bisson, CFO<br>

Kyle York, CRO<br>

Matt Larson, CTO <br>

Cory von Wallenstein, Chief Technologist<br>

Scott Hilton, EVP, Products

Matt Larson, Chief Architect <br>

Scott Hilton, EVP, Product

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'''Dyn''' (pronounced “dine”) is an Internet performance solutions company that provides traffic management, message management, and performance assurance to commercial and private users worldwide with major customers including Twitter, Netflix, Pandora, Zappos, CNBC, Etsy, Box, and StumbleUpon. These solutions are supported by services including paid domain registrations, recursive DNS, email forwarding and redirection, network monitoring and URL redirection. Dyn’s corporate headquarters are located in Manchester, NH, USA, with offices in Brighton, UK, and San Francisco, CA, USA.

Dyn (pronounced “dine”) is a cloud-based Internet Performance company. Dyn helps companies monitor, control, and optimize online infrastructure for an exceptional end-user experience. Dyn is the leading Internet Performance provider to the most visited web properties in the world, as measured by the Alexa 1000, including Twitter, Netflix, Pandora, Zappos, CNBC, Etsy, BT, Hershey, The Guardian and Seeking Alpha.[1] Their Internet Performance product suite includes Dyn Internet Intelligence, IP Transit Intelligence, Traffic Director, Managed DNS and Managed DNS Express. Dyn also offers Domain services and Email products. Dyn’s corporate headquarters are located in Manchester, NH, USA, with offices in Brighton, UK, Singapore, and Hanover, NH, USA. Dyn is set to retire in favor of the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure platform on May 31, 2020.<ref>https://www.oracle.com/corporate/acquisitions/dyn/technologies/ecommerce-customer-faq.html</ref>

 

In June, 2009, it became the first managed DNS provider to offer its Dynect Platform clients [[DNSSEC]].<ref>[http://www.webhosting.info/news/1/dyn-inc.-pushes-dnssec-live_0623094603.htm WebHosting.info]</ref>

==History==

==History==

Dyn began in 1998 as a free service running out of a college apartment at Worcester Polytechnic Institut. It was called DynDNS and offered users a [[DNS]] service capable of hosting a website from a home computer. As the business continued to grow, it shifted from a free model to a donation-based model, which enabled them to make $40,000 in weeks, from users around the world.<ref>[http://www.hippopress.com/read-article/living-the-digital-dream Living the Digital Dream: How a local tech company found international success and a possible recipe for NH's future]. The Hippo. Retrieved 2012 November 10.</ref> 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.<ref>[http://dyn.com/why-dyn/about-us About Us]. Dyn.</ref>

Dyn began as a free service running out of Worcester Polytechnic Institute. It was called DynDNS and offered users a DNS service capable of hosting a website from a home computer. As the business continued to grow, it shifted from a free model to a donation-based model, which enabled them to make $40,000 in weeks, from users around the world.

The donation based model continued until a premium service called the DynECT Platform became available in 2008. The DynECT Platform offered advanced DNS related services to customers including but not limited to: Round Robin Load Balancing, CDN Management, Traffic Management, and Active Failover. The service was mainly geared toward enterprise-level consumers.

They began outsourcing to the market in 2007. In 2010, the company purchased three companies -– SendLabs,<ref>[http://www.nhbr.com/businessnewsstatenews/905237-257/dyn-inc.-acquires-sendlabs.html New Hampshire Business Review]</ref> EveryDNS,<ref>[http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2010/01/07/dyn-inc-buys-everydns/ xconomy]</ref> and EditDNS.<ref>[http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Dyn-Inc-Acquires-EditDNS-and-iw-2477027455.html?x=0 Yahoo Finance]</ref>

In 2010, Dyn purchased the Manchester, New Hampshire-based SendLabs. This acquisition allowed Dyn to begin offering message management services. This combination of traffic management and message management services allows Dyn to bill itself as a provider of Internet performance solutions. In 2014, Dyn acquired Renesys and began offering internet intelligence services. The company nows calls itself an Internet Performance Management company that provides unrivaled visibility and control into cloud and public Internet resources. Dyn’s platform monitors, controls and optimizes applications and infrastructure through Data, Analytics, and Traffic Steering, ensuring traffic gets delivered faster, safer, and more reliably than ever.

===Services===

===Services===

The company offers core engineering services specializing in Apache, Python, FreeBSD, OpenVPN and Perl.

Dyn offers a platform for Internet Performance of Internet Performance, as well as supporting services, such as Domain and Email Services that complement these core competencies.<ref>[http://dyn.com/products/ Dyn Products, Dyn.com]</ref>

; Managed DNS, Active Failover, Traffic Director, Dynamic Steering

; Domain and Email Services

 

===$38 million Minority Investment===

===$38 million Minority Investment===

In October, 2012, it was announced that Dyn had received a $38 million Series A minority investment from North Bridge. The investment deal also expanded the Board of Directors for the company, adding 3 more positions, two from North Bridge; the board was originally staffed by only Dyn's two founders.<ref>[http://allthingsd.com/20121002/dyn-raises-38-million-from-north-bridge-and-jason-calacanis-joins-its-board/ Dyn Raises 38 million from North Bridge and Jason Calacanis Joins Its Board, AllThingsD.com]</ref> In an open letter to his employees and others, CEO [[Jeremy Hitchcock]] stressed that his company had been courted by other investors for some time, and that his decision to go ahead was North Bridge was the opportunity to keep doing what was best for the company, but with more resources, including greater contacts in related portfolio companies and a well-staffed board, to do so.<ref>[http://dyn.com/open-letter-to-dyn-employees-clients-partners-prospects-friends-family-fans/ Open Letter to Dyn employees Clients Partners Prospects Friends Family Fans, Dyn.com]</ref>

In October 2012, it was announced that Dyn had received a $38 million Series A minority investment from North Bridge. The investment deal also expanded the Board of Directors for the company, which was originally staffed by only two of Dyn's founders.<ref>[http://allthingsd.com/20121002/dyn-raises-38-million-from-north-bridge-and-jason-calacanis-joins-its-board/ Dyn Raises 38 million from North Bridge and Jason Calacanis Joins Its Board, AllThingsD.com]</ref> The Board now includes: Jeremy Hitchcock, Michael Boustridge, Jason Calacanis, Scott Dussault, Ric Fulop, John Lynch, and Russ Pyle.

===ReadyStatus Acquisition===

===ReadyStatus Acquisition===

===Verelo Acquisition===

===Verelo Acquisition===

On January 2 2013,  Dyn announced that it had acquired Verelo, a Toronto-based website monitoring start-up.  Just a few weeks prior, Verelo announced to the public that it would be closing down six months after its launch as it did not have the resources to gain traction and take the company to the next level. Dyn subsequently approached the company and made an undisclosed offer that provided for a return to Verelo's initial investors. The company offers website uptime and performance analytics as well as malware detection and site health monitoring services, and given that Dyn's mantra is "Uptime is the Bottom Line", the acquisition will be used to offer a number of new services to its customers at no extra charge.<ref>[http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/02/verelo-dyn-acquisition/ Verelo Dyn Acquisition, TechCrunch.com]</ref>

On January 2 2013,  Dyn announced that it had acquired Verelo, a Toronto-based website monitoring start-up.  Just a few weeks prior, Verelo announced to the public that it would be closing down six months after its launch as it did not have the resources to gain traction and take the company to the next level. Dyn subsequently approached the company and made an undisclosed offer that provided for a return to Verelo's initial investors. The company offers website uptime and performance analytics as well as malware detection and site health monitoring services, and given that Dyn's mantra is "Uptime is the Bottom Line", the acquisition will be used to offer a number of new services to its customers at no extra charge.<ref>[http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/02/verelo-dyn-acquisition/ Verelo Dyn Acquisition, TechCrunch.com]</ref>

==Associations==

==Associations==

Dynamic Network Services, Inc. maintain associations with the following organizations -

Dyn maintains associations with the following organizations -

* [[NANOG]]<ref>[http://nanog.org North American Network Operators' Group]</ref>

* [[NANOG]]<ref>[http://nanog.org North American Network Operators' Group]</ref>

* Listed as #1135 on the famed Inc. 5000 list in 2013, Dyn's third consecutive year in making it on the list.<ref>[http://www.inc.com/profile/dyn Dyn Profile on Inc. 5000]</ref>

* Listed as #1135 on the famed Inc. 5000 list in 2013, Dyn's third consecutive year in making it on the list.<ref>[http://www.inc.com/profile/dyn Dyn Profile on Inc. 5000]</ref>

* Recognized by WorldBlu as one of the Most Democratic Places Workplaces of 2013.<ref>[http://www.worldblu.com/awardee-profiles/2013.php The WorldBlu List]</ref>

* Recognized by WorldBlu as one of the Most Democratic Places Workplaces of 2013.<ref>[http://www.worldblu.com/awardee-profiles/2013.php The WorldBlu List]</ref>

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