[Sysadmin] [Fwd: [EveryDNS] The Future Of EveryDNS]

[David Kaufman]

Our free DNS provider, the most-excellent EveryDNS.net, has been sold 
and its not known how long it will continue to be free:

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Subject: [EveryDNS] The Future Of EveryDNS
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:50:07 +0000
From: David Ulevitch <questions at everydns.com>
To: domain at gigawatt.com

To the EveryDNS community,

Since starting EveryDNS in June of 2001 while a freshman in college, my 
goal has always been to provide simple, reliable and secure DNS services 
to the Internet community.  I'm proud to say that we've lived up to that 
mission and delivered robust DNS services to over 400,000 domains. 
Nearly 9 years later, it's now time to put the service in more capable 
hands and I'm happy to announce that I've found a great home for 
EveryDNS.  I have sold the EveryDNS service to Dyn Inc., the operators 
of the immensely popular DynDNS.com service.

Over the many years of running EveryDNS I have been fortunate to build 
up relationships and friendships within the industry, particularly 
Jeremy Hitchcock and Tom Daly, the CEO and CTO respectively of Dyn Inc. 
  In getting to know them I have learned that we share similar values in 
our desire to deliver world-class services to our customers and the 
Internet community at large.

In looking to transition the ownership of EveryDNS, I had a number of 
really exciting options, but none made as much sense as a sale to Dyn 
Inc.  They have a growing staff that is ready to work with me and all of 
you to ensure that the transition is a smooth one.

Here are links to the press release, and a blog post by Dyn Inc. CEO 
Jeremy Hitchcock:

Announcement: http://www.dyn.com/everydns-aquisition
Blog post: http://www.dyn.com/dd-welcome-everydns

I've also prepared a short Q&A to answer some immediate questions that 
might come up:

1) Will my DNS service be interrupted?
	Absolutely not.  While we're working to transition services over to the 
Dyn infrastructure, we will do everything possible to ensure it's a 
seamless and painless transition for you.
	
2) Do I have to do anything or make any changes?
	Nope.  You will be given plenty of notice if you have to do anything. 
But in the short term, nothing is changing.

3) Will the service remain free?
	While we don't 100% have the answer to that yet, we will not be making 
any changes to the service you are currently receiving for the 
foreseeable future.  We will be discontinuing signups in the near future 
but existing accounts will remain active and fully functional.

The Dyn Inc. team and I will be communicating more information in the 
coming weeks and months, but if you have an immediate question or 
comment, please send it to questions (at) everydns (dot) com


Thank you,


David Ulevitch
Founder, EveryDNS