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Noteworthy

 Real people are reporting attacks and real people are responding.

 The banking industry leads the world in protection and security practices. If these DDoS attacks could happen to banks, they can happen to anyone.

 Why Can't a Product or Service Meet All My Needs??? With Professional Services, It Can!

 As Neustar sees it, there are three key elements to dedicated DDoS protection: people, process and technology.

 As protests of all kinds seem to be gaining momentum these days, it will be interesting to see what develops next with DDoS attacks.

DNS / Industry Updates

A Look at Traffic Management for External "Cloud" Load Balancing

As of this post, 48% of Dyn's enterprise customers are utilizing a traffic management service for disaster recovery, cloud load balancing, geographic regional routing, latency-based routing, or our granular geographic IP routing services. more»

Dyn Acquires Mobile Dashboard App Trendslide

Dyn, the worldwide leader in Internet Infrastructure as a Service, announced today it has acquired Trendslide, a mobile dashboard app startup. The acquisition expands Dyn's services to now include mobile data and analytics offerings for online businesses. more»

Dyn Research: Where Do Companies Host Their Websites?

We recently did a study where we looked at where our customers' websites are hosted, so we could get a better glimpse into the web hosting space. We also looked at the market share numbers for top traffic websites by Alexa Ranking, and also for large enterprises. more»

Dyn Adds Tech Company Leader Michael Boustridge To Board of Directors

Boustridge is the former President of BT Global Services, a company that delivers a combination of communications and IT services to customers organizations and governments worldwide.  more»

CentralNic Powers First New Top-Level Domains Announced by ICANN

Two Arabic-language Top-Level Domains ("TLDs") applied for by The Ooredoo Group have been approved today by domain name regulator ICANN. more»

DCA Registry Services Participates in ICANN Africa Strategy Meeting, Addis Ababa

DCA Registry Services and its UK Technical Partner CentralNic participated in the just ended African Multi-stakeholder Internet Governance meeting held at the UNECA Conference Center in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from 6-8 March 2013, where it played a part among other African organizations like African IGF, AfriNIC, AFTLD, ISOC Africa, and the ATU and ITU. more»

Reducing the Risks of BYOD with Nominum's Security Solution

In previous posts, Pat Barnes has discussed the risks associated with BYOD, and a DNS-based approach for reducing those risks. Essentially this approach consisted of making use of an enterprise's caching DNS server to monitor and block DNS queries to known botnet command and control (C&C) domains. more»

Neustar Launches Enterprise Professional Services Offerings

Neustar announces the launch of Neustar Professional Services with a comprehensive suite of IT service offerings for enterprise organizations of all sizes. Neustar's seasoned team of professionals provides the expertise and resources organizations need to ensure the performance, security and reliability of their IT infrastructure. more»

Dyn Adds Claudia Santoro, Dave Connors and Andrew Sullivan to Technical Team

Dyn announced the hiring of Claudia Santoro as its new Director of Email Engineering and Dave Connors as VP of Technical Operations. In addition, Andrew Sullivan, previously Director of Labs, has been promoted to Director of DNS Engineering. more»

Dyn Acquires Website Monitoring Startup Verelo

The IaaS company does not intend on selling the Verelo services long-term. Instead, Dyn will offer Verelo's performance orientated tools as a free service to their customers and as a sales tool for prospects. more»