before cloudflare companies such as verisign would take over all your routing (i think just for the IP range(s) affected) to mitigate DDoS. Although if you're a

before cloudflare companies such as verisign would take over all your routing (i think just for the IP range(s) affected) to mitigate DDoS. Although if you're a company that has a /20 of ipv4 and whoever is DDoSing you is doing it for an actual reason (as opposed to bored teens or whatever), they'll figure out you own a huge number of IPs and start nuking them all. Verisign could also handle that. There were others, comodo maybe? Then cloudflare appeared, it was way cheaper for smaller traffic sites, then they had so much bandwidth in so many places they offered CDNs; and those were cheaper than Akamai and whoever the other player was. I think they got lucky, market placement when they entered was entrenched by large companies that did not care about small customers at all. and yet.