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Comment by redm | Hacker News Reader

They sell premium services, have a large sales team, and are very aggressive. I get emails from them weekly discussing millisecond savings of their DNS solutions and the value increase in customers and sales.

Squeaky wheels get grease and their sales team squeaks a lot.

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Realistically they compete with Neustar which is shockingly expensive and has less features and is harder to use.

I chose Dyn over Neustar (UltraDNS) when it was time to renew contracts because it was 60% cheaper, had a better latency, their support was great and the interfaces were clear.

Not a fanboy or anything, I really don't like how aggressively they hound me now (even though I have nothing to do with DNS for my current employer), but it's cheap and effective so it's not surprising people use them.

they are cheap compared to Neustar. And Neustar is priced like a Bugatti. Dyn is more Porsche pricing.

Check out NS1.

I had a NS1 demo account. And then they stopped doing that, but it still worked. And then I lost the credentials, and now my account is invalid for a password reset :(

Way, way back in time, they offered lifetime DNS hosting for a relatively low price.

I bought that, and they've honored the deal. Admittedly it comes with limits that would make it useless for any large site, but it's just great for individuals.

I have a similar deal with UltraDNS. Nice to have "enterprise" DNS for my little personal sites.

It seems that many people who have dealt with them have a story about their overly aggressive nature, me included. It's really a turn off.

Boy, you aren't kidding about an aggressive sales team. They are relentless.

Ironically, a quick search of my Gmail mailbox came up with this gem in the subject line from Dyn.

"Did you know the average cost of a single DDoS outage is $882K?"

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