DNSimple
Type of site | Private |
|---|---|
| Available in | English |
| Founded | April 7, 2010 |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Founder(s) |
Anthony Eden Darrin Eden |
| CEO | Anthony Eden |
| Key people | Simone Carletti |
| Industry | Internet |
| Products | DNSimple, RoboWhois, RoboDomain |
| Services | DNS Hosting, Domain Registrar, WhoisGuard, SSL certificates |
| Employees | 9 (2015)[1] |
| Website |
dnsimple |
| Launched | July 10, 2010 |
| Current status | Active |
| Written in | Ruby, Go, Erlang [2] |
DNSimple is a managed domain name server service operated by Aetrion LLC dba DNSimple, which offers DNS hosting, domain registration and SSL certificate. DNSimple is also an ICANN-accredited domain registrar.
History
DNSimple was founded in 2010 by Anthony Eden and Darrin Eden. The first public version of the service was launched in July 2010 and it only offered managed DNS. Domain registration was added later, in September 2010, in partnership with Enom.
In November 2011, DNSimple announced a new proprietary DNS record type called ALIAS which provides a CNAME-like DNS record for the apex domain.[3][4] DNSimple was the first DNS provider to offer this capability using a custom DNS record type.
In September 2012, DNSimple acquired RoboDomain, Inc. which provided a domain management service (RoboDomain) and a WHOIS software as a service (RoboWhois).[5] Simone Carletti, the RoboDomain, Inc. founder joined DNSimple as the first official full-time employee of DNSimple. RoboDomain was discontinued at the end of 2013.[6]
As of December 2012, DNSimple managed 40,000 domains for 2,000 customers.[7]
In December 2013, DNSimple migrated all the customers from Unicast to a new Anycast network composed of 5 points of presence.[8]
In December 2014, DNSimple fell victim to a major distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack across the entire network, that resulted in several hours of downtime.[9] As part of the mitigation plans, the company decided to review the implementation of the secondary DNS support [10] which was released at the begin of 2015.
As of August 2015, DNSimple manages 50,000 domains for 17,000 customers.
Company
DNSimple is a US company, however the company is completely decentralized and all team members work remotely.[11] They actively promote Telecommuting.[12]
References
- ↑ "DNSimple Team". dnsimple.com. DNSimple. Retrieved 2015-10-12.
- ↑ http://blog.dnsimple.com/2014/05/operating_distributed_systems/
- ↑ http://blog.dnsimple.com/2011/11/introducing-alias-record/
- ↑ http://scripting.com/stories/2011/11/13/dnsimplesNewAliasFeature.html
- ↑ http://blog.dnsimple.com/2012/09/dnsimple-acquires-robodomain/
- ↑ http://robodomain.com/
- ↑ http://blog.dnsimple.com/2012/12/2012-in-review/
- ↑ http://blog.dnsimple.com/2013/12/anycast-for-everyone/
- ↑ http://blog.dnsimple.com/2014/12/incident-report-ddos/
- ↑ http://blog.dnsimple.com/2015/01/announcing-secondary-dns/
- ↑ http://blog.dnsimple.com/2014/02/how-we-work-as-a-remote-team/
- ↑ https://speakerdeck.com/weppos/better-teams-through-remote-working