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They're widely used because they were one of the few providers of geo-aware DNS service for a long time. (These days there are other, cheaper options, including

by ljosa 10y ago

They're widely used because they were one of the few providers of geo-aware DNS service for a long time. (These days there are other, cheaper options, including Amazon Route53.)

planetix 10y ago
Other option would have been Akamai's geo-aware DNS that has been available for a long time.
- corobo 10y ago
  If anyone else is like me they assume Akamai = Expensive.
  - joncrane 10y ago
    and they would be right.
RijilV 10y ago
It's pretty wild that AWS is having impacts for the dyn outage given the shoutout to Route53. Wonder what they know that they don't?
- nixgeek 10y ago
  Not sure if people are confusing Amazon with AWS in this case. $ dig +short ns amazon.com ns1.p31.dynect.net. pdns1.ultradns.net. ns4.p31.dynect.net. pdns6.ultradns.co.uk. ns3.p31.dynect.net. ns2.p31.dynect.net.
  - detaro 10y ago
    same seems to be the case for parts of AWS, comment below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12760165 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12760165