Yet another example of how nobody, regardless of size, resources nor expertise, is immune from DNS outages. Last week several Microsoft systems experienced a global outage when the company made a configuration error whilst migrating some legacy, infrastructure domains, to their own Azure platform. The errors had second-order effects within the Azure ecosystem ... View Post
Our latest blog posts
Why You Must Learn to Love DNSSEC
(This is a reprint of an article originally run on our parent company's blog in June 2018). It’s been nearly two months since the high profile BGP hijack attack against MyEtherwallet, where crypto thieves used BGP leaks to hijack MEW’s name servers, which were on Amazon’s Route53, and inserted their own fake name servers which directed victims to ... View Post
A Deep Dive into the Mirai Botnet Attack
As we all know, on Friday Oct 21, 2016 DNS provider Dynect was severely impacted by a big DDoS attack which has since been attributed to the Mirai Botnet. (interesting to note that “Mirai” means “future” in Japanese). Briefly: The Mirai Botnet is constructed by commandeering network connected Internet of Things (IoT) devices such as remote cameras, or any other ... View Post
The Case for Hot Swappable Nameservers
(reprint of an article we once wrote for CircleId) Earlier this week we announced our "Proactive Nameservers”, which is just marketing speak for what it really is: hot swappable nameservers or nameserver fail over. What is it? Basically this: you define some warm spare nameservers that are not normally in your delegation you load those servers up ... View Post