Difference between revisions of "Dyn"

From ICANNWiki
Jump to navigation Jump to search
(Updated Company Info Section and opening graph)
Line 3: Line 3:
 
| silversponsor = ICANNWiki [[Sponsorship|Silver Sponsor]]
 
| silversponsor = ICANNWiki [[Sponsorship|Silver Sponsor]]
 
| type            = Privately Held
 
| type            = Privately Held
−
| industry        =  
+
| industry        = Internet Performance Solutions
 
| founded        = USA, 1998
 
| founded        = USA, 1998
 
| founders        =  
 
| founders        =  
Line 11: Line 11:
 
| businesses      =  
 
| businesses      =  
 
| products        =  
 
| products        =  
−
| employees      = 51-200
+
| employees      = 250-300
 
| revenue        =  
 
| revenue        =  
−
| website        = [http://dyn.com/ dyn.com]
+
| website        = [http://dyn.com/ Dyn.com]
−
| blog            = [http://dyn.com/category/open-dialogue Dyn.com Blog]
+
| blog            = [http://dyn.com/blog/ Blog]
−
| facebook        = [http://www.facebook.com/Dyn Dynamic Network Services, Inc.]
+
| facebook        = [http://www.facebook.com/Dyn Dyn]
−
| linkedin        = [http://www.linkedin.com/company/dynamic-network-services-inc. Dynamic Network Services, Inc.]
+
| linkedin        = [http://www.linkedin.com/company/dyn Dyn]
−
| twitter        = DynInc
+
| twitter        = Dyn
−
| keypeople      = [[Jeremy Hitchcock]], CEO<br>
+
| keypeople      =  
−
[[Tom Daly]], CTO<br>
+
[[Jeremy Hitchcock]], CEO<br>
−
[[Kyle York]], VP, Sales & Marketing<br>
+
Cory von Wallenstein, Chief Technologist<br>
−
[[Graham Chynoweth]], COO
+
Kyle York, CRO<br>
 +
[[Graham Chynoweth]], COO<br>
 +
Timothy O’Toole, CFO<br>
 +
Matt Larson, Chief Architect <br>
 +
Scott Hilton, EVP, Product
 
}}
 
}}
  
−
'''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. It 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.<ref>[http://www.circleid.com/members/4557/ CircleID]</ref> They claim to be the world's fastest growing provider of managed [[DNS]].<ref>[http://www.circleid.com/posts/20100610_dyn_inc_selects_ntt_america_as_infrastructure_partner/ CircleID.com]</ref>
+
'''Dyn''' (pronounced “dine”) is an Internet performance solutions company that provides traffic management, email management|message management and performance assurance to over 4 million 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 has 2,000 enterprise clients, 450,000 e-commerce clients, and four million active users around the world. Dyn's current clients include: Twitter, CNBC, Netflix, Photobucket, Gawker, Pandora, and Zappos. They all use their Dynect Platform.<ref>[http://www.linkedin.com/company/dynamic-network-services-inc. LinkedIn]</ref> Their headquarters is in Manchester, New Hampshire, but it also has offices in San Francisco, and in Brighton and Wrexham in the U.K. As of late 2012, the company had grown at a compound annual rate of 70% for the past three years.<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 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>
 
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>

Revision as of 20:49, 18 February 2014

DynLogo.png
ICANNWiki Silver Sponsor
Type: Privately Held
Industry: Internet Performance Solutions
Founded: USA, 1998
Headquarters: Manchester, New Hampshire
Country: USA
Employees: 250-300
Website: Dyn.com
Blog: Blog
Facebook: Dyn
LinkedIn: Dyn
Twitter: TwitterIcon.png@Dyn
Key People
Jeremy Hitchcock, CEO

Cory von Wallenstein, Chief Technologist
Kyle York, CRO
Graham Chynoweth, COO
Timothy O’Toole, CFO
Matt Larson, Chief Architect
Scott Hilton, EVP, Product

Dyn (pronounced “dine”) is an Internet performance solutions company that provides traffic management, email management|message management and performance assurance to over 4 million 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.

In June, 2009, it became the first managed DNS provider to offer its Dynect Platform clients DNSSEC.[1]

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.[2] 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.[3]

They began outsourcing to the market in 2007. In 2010, the company purchased three companies -– SendLabs,[4] EveryDNS,[5] and EditDNS.[6]

In September, 2012, Dyn announced that it had acquired the SEO/SEM services of one of its early clients, Incutio. They had been outsourcing their SEO and SEM needs to Incutio for over a year prior to the team talent acquisition.[7]

Services

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

$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.[8] 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.[9]

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.[10]

Associations

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

Awards and Recognition

  • Business New Hampshire Magazine recognized Dynamic Network Services as The Best Small Company to Work for in NH in December, 2010; it won the same distinction in 2007.[17] It will also enter in the ‘Hall of Fame’ in the year 2011. It was also the 2nd Best Small Company to work for in NH in the year 2009
  • In 2007, Dynamic Network Services got listed on Inc. 5000 list.[18].
  • In 4 years, from 2003 to 2007, the company’s growth rate was 208.7%; it was subsequently ranked 73rd in the list of "Top Companies in Telecommunications" in US by Trade Publication Inc. Overall, it ranked 11th in New Hampshire.
  • Dynamic Network Services, Inc. received the Innovation Rocks! award from the New Hampshire Division of Economic Development’s Business Resource Center.[19]

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 DDoS attacks, which put its ability to provide for its other 500,000 customers in jeopardy. [20]

References

  1. ↑ WebHosting.info
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ About Us. Dyn.
  4. ↑ New Hampshire Business Review
  5. ↑ xconomy
  6. ↑ Yahoo Finance
  7. ↑ Dyn Acquires eCommerce Development Arm Incutio LTD DNS Email delivery, Dyn.com>
  8. ↑ Dyn Raises 38 million from North Bridge and Jason Calacanis Joins Its Board, AllThingsD.com
  9. ↑ Open Letter to Dyn employees Clients Partners Prospects Friends Family Fans, Dyn.com
  10. ↑ Verelo Dyn Acquisition, TechCrunch.com
  11. ↑ North American Network Operators' Group
  12. ↑ CCSNH
  13. ↑ Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
  14. ↑ Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group
  15. ↑ abi INNOVATION HUB
  16. ↑ New Hampshire High Technology Council
  17. ↑ BusinessNH
  18. ↑ TMCnet.com
  19. ↑ NH business Resource Center
  20. ↑ NHBR.com
Retrieved from "https://icannwiki.org/index.php?title=Dyn&oldid=86213"