Hey Guys, I hope it wasn't lame to comment, but I saw a tweet about this question and figured I'd give you guys my jam. I just wanted to note that the company

Hey Guys, I hope it wasn't lame to comment, but I saw a tweet about this question and figured I'd give you guys my jam. I just wanted to note that the company I work for (Dyn Inc.) has two DNS offerings, so I'm constantly talking about outsourcing DNS with people daily, so I figured I'd give you my understanding. We have two DNS platforms. DynDNS for consumers (you've probably heard of that one given its popularity)... and Dynect for enterprises (not as well known but it is a top tier provider in the DNS space). With outsourced DNS, you can do all kinds of cool things that would be hard to do with Rackspace or in house because of the programming/specialties of those companies etc....with our Dynect Platform...there are some really neat advance features like active failover (redirect traffic to a back up server), round robin load balancing, weighted load balancing, and global server load balancing that can make DNS queries get answered faster, while ensure they get answered. So if you are using Rackspace for hosting, and you want to load balancing without buying hard ware...with outsourced providers...you can do it at a much more affordable rate. Dyn has been fortunate enough to have great engineers that have designed a network that actually has experienced 100% uptime on both DynDNS and Dynect... and to help work with more start ups, we just came out with DynectSMB which is our anycasted enterprise platform stripped down without advance features for start ups. Hope this didn't seem like a pitch for Dyn...but most other providers can do a lot of these tricks, I just know for fact Dyn can do them the best. I may seem bias though since I work here..but we definitely care about the awareness of DNS increasing. It is an important layer of the internet that is often forgotten. If you guys want to read more on it... check out http://dnsissexy.com http://dnsissexy.com Sorry if this made the forum too businessish. I just wanted to plug advance features with outsourced providers... (from a bias perspective haha)