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They sell premium services, have a large sales team, and are very aggressive. I get emails from them weekly discussing millisecond savings of their DNS solutio
by redm 10y ago
They sell premium services, have a large sales team, and are very aggressive. I get emails from them weekly discussing millisecond savings of their DNS solutions and the value increase in customers and sales.
Squeaky wheels get grease and their sales team squeaks a lot.
- dijit 10y agoRealistically they compete with Neustar which is shockingly expensive and has less features and is harder to use. I chose Dyn over Neustar (UltraDNS) when it was time to renew contracts because it was 60% cheaper, had a better latency, their support was great and the interfaces were clear. Not a fanboy or anything, I really don't like how aggressively they hound me now (even though I have nothing to do with DNS for my current employer), but it's cheap and effective so it's not surprising people use them.
- pyvpx 10y agothey are cheap compared to Neustar. And Neustar is priced like a Bugatti. Dyn is more Porsche pricing.
- wsul 10y agoCheck out NS1.
- pyvpx 10y agoI had a NS1 demo account. And then they stopped doing that, but it still worked. And then I lost the credentials, and now my account is invalid for a password reset :(
- Filligree 10y agoWay, way back in time, they offered lifetime DNS hosting for a relatively low price. I bought that, and they've honored the deal. Admittedly it comes with limits that would make it useless for any large site, but it's just great for individuals.
- jonah 10y agoI have a similar deal with UltraDNS. Nice to have "enterprise" DNS for my little personal sites.
- rsa4096 10y agoDNS Made Easy is even cheaper. They have a massive infrastructure and consistently have less latency than either of these providers.
- ksec 10y agoAnd yet they are not as widely use. I wonder why or am i missing something important.
- bogomipz 10y agoIt seems that many people who have dealt with them have a story about their overly aggressive nature, me included. It's really a turn off.
- blantonl 10y agoBoy, you aren't kidding about an aggressive sales team. They are relentless. Ironically, a quick search of my Gmail mailbox came up with this gem in the subject line from Dyn. "Did you know the average cost of a single DDoS outage is $882K?"