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Oracle Dyn Managed DNS

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What is Oracle Dyn Managed DNS?

Oracle Dyn DNS (domain name system) is an infrastructure-as-a-service that is touted by Oracle Dyne as one of the highest performance global networks existent. It is available as a managed DNS with secondary DNS available for more reliable business continuity…

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DNS for everyday

10 out of 10
May 01, 2019
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Oracle DYN DNS is used by our IT department to manage all our company and client domains. We rely on DYN advanced active failover features …
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Great, stable service

8 out of 10
April 16, 2019
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We use Oracle Dyn Managed DNS as one of two providers (primary-secondary) for the whole infrastructure of our SaaS solution and also for …
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What is Oracle Dyn Managed DNS?

Oracle Dyn DNS (domain name system) is an infrastructure-as-a-service that is touted by Oracle Dyne as one of the highest performance global networks existent. It is available as a managed DNS with secondary DNS available for more reliable business continuity on higher service tiers.

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Product Details

What is Oracle Dyn Managed DNS?

Oracle Dyn provides managed DNS for large web properties. The product serves more than 3,500 enterprises.

The vendor promises the following key differentiators:

1. Performance: For modern sites and applications, DNS resolution can account for up to 30% of site load time. The vendor says they respond to DNS queries in less than 30 milliseconds worldwide and propagate DNS records globally in under a minute. The vendor also says that analysis shows that Dyn’s DNS network performance is up to 10 times more consistent than competing networks.

2. Scale: Every day, Oracle Dyn intelligently routes user traffic using internet performance data from over 600 collection points, analyzes over 240 billion source collected data points, and makes 40 billion traffic optimization decisions ensuring customers improve user experiences and contain costs. Oracle Dyn delivers intelligent responses to DNS queries based on policies, geo-location and network latency.

Capabilities include:

  • Managed DNS service for ensuring superior DNS performance and availability across the globe
  • Traffic Steering solutions for optimizing the responsiveness and reliability of web-based applications and services
  • Secondary DNS solution for extending the resiliency of your existing DNS infrastructure.
  • All backed by full-time DNS experts and 24x7x365 technical support.
For more information visit https://help.dyn.com/dns-knowledge-base/

Oracle Dyn Managed DNS Features

  • Supported: Industry-leading DNS response times worldwide (<30ms)
  • Supported: Industry-leading DNS propagation times (<30s)
  • Supported: Hundreds of sensors collecting 240 billion data elements daily
  • Supported: Highly resilient network with four tier-1 transit providers per PoP
  • Supported: Battle-proven DDoS mitigated expertise built in at no extra cost
  • Supported: Continuously improving geolocation accuracy
  • Supported: Secondary/Multi DNS support
  • Supported: Endpoint failover support based on availability
  • Supported: Global endpoint loadbalancing support
  • Supported: Fully vendor agnostic support for all CDNs, Public Cloud and Data Center technologies

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Oracle Dyn Managed DNS Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported CountriesGlobal support including in-country China

Frequently Asked Questions

Oracle Dyn DNS (domain name system) is an infrastructure-as-a-service that is touted by Oracle Dyne as one of the highest performance global networks existent. It is available as a managed DNS with secondary DNS available for more reliable business continuity on higher service tiers.

Amazon Route 53, Cloudflare, and IBM NS1 Connect are common alternatives for Oracle Dyn Managed DNS.

Reviewers rate Usability and Support Rating highest, with a score of 8.6.

The most common users of Oracle Dyn Managed DNS are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).

Oracle Dyn Managed DNS Customer Size Distribution

Consumers0%
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)10%
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees)50%
Enterprises (more than 500 employees)40%
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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Oracle managed DNS has been the most vital part of the engineering process of our cloud product. It is being used by our organization's cloud department. It addresses the domains of all our customers which is in a way directly affecting the customer.
  • Faster DNS provisioning
  • Rapid DNS Change propagation
  • Highly available
  • REST APIs available which makes it easy to use
  • Dyn UI was a bit heavy to use. Improvement in UI will make the product seamless.
  • Sometimes there are errors while updating the Dyn from REST APIs, so improving it will add a plus point to the product.
  • Traversing between pages of Dynects was difficult from the UI.
Oracle managed DNS becomes very heavy when there is an ample amount of DNS being managed. However, the DNS creation and updating takes very less time to propagate and is very easy to use. So, for an organization, where there is a modest amount of DNS to manage, it works very well and gives a splendid experience. So, considering the complexity of managing the DNS for an IT company Oracle Dyn managed DNS is the best option to opt.
Prasad Wani | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are using Oracle Dyn Managed DNS to host all of our domains across the organization. With Dyn DNS it is very responsive and the population of DNS across the globe is immediate. So during DNS publish we never waited for more than 30 min.
  • User Management is easy
  • I can give the Role base Access to DNS
  • The failover Functionality of DNS works very well.
  • We didn't find any cons yet as there as whatever we are looking for and using is already there in Dyn Managed DNS
If anyone looking for DNS hosting with quick response time will surely suggest the Oracle Dyn Managed DNS. User management is one of the best features which we used to give Role base access to DNS.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use dyn DNS as our primary external DNS hosted service.
  • Fault tolerance of DNS records
  • Fault tolerance of DNS names. We can fail over our services to another server almost instantly.
  • I would like to share the DNS namespace with our internal DNS servers. This is a difficult configuration to maintain.
External DNS zones are particularly suited for this product and the failover features and uptime are great.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Oracle Dyn Managed DNS is being used for our external DNS management and Active/Fail-over for all our sites used across the entire organization. It allows us to use a cloud-based system for external DNS that was easy to implement and easy to use. The accounts can also be secured by 2FA, though it would also be nice if the Domain Registration account could be secured by 2FA as well.
  • The portal management is very easy to use in comparison to other companies for DNS management.
  • The have expert mode that allows for multiple edits on records and allows you to make notes for each edit on a zone.
  • The have TTLs that are as low as 30 seconds.
  • They used to answer the phone when you called them, now after their purchase by Oracle, you have to leave a message for someone to call you back.
  • Does not integrate with Dyn Domain Registration, so you need to have multiple accounts: one for Domain Registration and one for Dyn Managed DNS.
  • No 2FA on Domain Registration.
Oracle Dyn Managed DNS service is well suited for any company looking for a strong, very reliable external DNS infrastructure that also has support for dynamic records that change regularly.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use it to manage our public facing DNS records. It acts as the entry point to our website and other services for all users both internal and external. We also use it for load balancing and redundancy. It alerts us when things go up and down which is useful.
  • Easy to manage
  • Records update almost immediately
  • Provides geographic load balancing
  • Sometimes its hard to find the settings I'm looking for
  • Confusing to transfer domains into Dyn
Its very easy to manage and does exactly what it advertises. It works great if you have multiple DNS records to manage. It makes it really easy to do so. If you only have 1 record then it probably doesn't make sense to use Dyn. Other than that I'd say use it.
May 01, 2019

DNS for everyday

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Oracle DYN DNS is used by our IT department to manage all our company and client domains. We rely on DYN advanced active failover features to provide our clients the redundancy and resiliency of an Enterprise solution. With it we can make sure that the client services are never down for more than 1 min by failing them over to our DR site using DYN.
  • Excellent Active Failover configuration with flexible health monitors and syslog capabilities.
  • The ability to easily configure Domain forwarding and redirection using several rule types.
  • It has excellent audit tracking, which allows us to tell who made a change to what part of the domain records.
  • It would be nice if the interface was more user-friendly and reduce the number of clicks to get a record edited.
  • A dashboard with better service summary for the domains.
DYN offers great active failover capabilities which are very easy to configure and use.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Oracle Dyn Managed DNS for our public facing enterprise websites. It is being used only by our department. We also use it for switchover between our primary and secondary data center in the event of failure.
  • Oracle Dyn Managed DNS's GUI is very user-friendly.
  • The configuration is also very easy.
  • I would like to see a GUI Dashboard where Dyn shows all of the DNS traffics.
Oracle Dyn Managed DNS is well suited for a company that would like to utilize active failover between datacenters.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Dyn for all of our DNS needs for production locales.
  • They have great customer support
  • Keep me informed of changes
  • Always reach out to me when new features are available
  • The interface could use an upgrade, there are always places this could be done
They are well suited for DNS services and management, also well suited for protective services. I really don't have any complaints.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Oracle Dyn Managed DNS is in use for the company primary domain, which is at the core of the companies business model as it touches the website as well as email communications. As a robust solution, it keeps DNS responsive and resilient, ensuring that people can reach us at any time of the ay or night.
  • Fast DNS query responses
  • High and fair priced QPS allowances
  • Ease of use from an administrator perspective as the console is intuitive and simple to navigate
  • Simpler billing interface
  • More responsive sales team to provide relevant QBRs to ensure proper and best practice use of the product/platform
  • Integration of the Dyn ECT Managed DNS with Dyn Domain Registration would be a nice feature as currently I have to manage two consoles and billing accounts.
For any company that needs a robust DNS service that can handle high QPS volumes without latency or lag, Oracle Dyn is the best that I have used. I can always rely on the backend infrastructure to ensure that DNS isn't a bottleneck for website performance. I have never had to open a support ticket for any issues and published changes to DNS records are nearly instantaneous across the globe.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
DNS is a very critical service for every business and NBC is no exception. Uptime, faster resolution, low latency and ease of use are keys of a good DNS service. NBC has been using Oracle Dyn Managed DNS for over 6 years using it to manage the DNS for over 100 production and non-production services. The service is flexible, with an intuitive user interface and also offers RESTful APIs for automation. 2FA is supported for securing the service. It provides low TTLs for up to 30 seconds for production services which need the flexibility to change. With the exception of a DDOS attack in 2016 during which service was impacted, the service is been up all the time.
  • Ease of use, highly configurable, RESTful APIs, and uptime are highlights of the product.
  • Low latency, uptime, and fast resolutions are keys to our business and Oracle Dyn Managed DNS shines.
  • The support people are very professional, easy to reach and helped find solutions within minutes.
  • The core service meets all our needs. I see no reasons to change the user interface or anything just for the sake of an update.
RESTful APIs are really helpful in automating for creating, updating, and deleting A records. During a 2016 DDoS attack, Oracle Dyn Managed DNS recovered relatively quicker given the scale and complexity of the attack.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our SaaS relies on Oracle Dyn to provide reliable DNS service so our customers can access our service on our primary data center. Additionally, Oracle Dyn provides us virtually instant failover/switchover capability to our DR data center. Our domain names/subdomains are configured with 30 sec/1 min TTL on Dyn. So during a recent DR testing demonstration, we were able to demonstrate a simulated failover with a verified RTO and RPO of 1 min by simply changing the A record on our testing subdomain. The customers were impressed.
  • Option for 30 second TTL
  • Zero DNS outage since migrating to Oracle Dyn vs, four outages per year from the previous provider.
  • Easy and safe user interface to manage DNS
  • Cost: OracleDyn is EXPENSIVE
If the business has a SaaS that requires 24/7 uptime, Oracle Dyn is absolutely a key component.
April 18, 2019

So far so good

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use this product to manage all of the organizations DNS services. Although our organization's domains are registered through other 3rd party providers they are mostly configured to point to Dynect for their name servers (DN records). This is used across the entire organizations as well as all of our external partners.
  • Ease of changing records.
  • Review of packages and offerings.
With the fact that our name server records reside on 3rd party providers, we can quickly make changes and they are live.
April 16, 2019

Great, stable service

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Oracle Dyn Managed DNS as one of two providers (primary-secondary) for the whole infrastructure of our SaaS solution and also for auxiliary needs - like internal development purposes or the marketing website.
  • Stability/reliability of the service
  • Decent user interface
  • Good API
  • Authentication and user management (confusing two layers of portal vs. DynECT)
Well-suited for heavy load of DNS traffic with multiple zones, especially if managed programmatically. Less appropriate if you just have two DNS entries for your personal website.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Dyn-DNS to facilitate active monitoring of devices at sites across the US. By having a fully qualified domain name, we can ensure that our equipment remains reachable even if the IP address changes.
  • Easy to maneuver after basic instruction.
  • Easy to train others how to use it.
  • Simplistic.
  • Reduce the steps to commit a change. Sometimes I forget to click the very last Publish link as I have already clicked "Review & Publish."
  • The search function could use some updating I shouldn't have to type EXACTLY what I am searching for. For example, AAA1234 vs just AAA or 1234.
  • Ability to change more than one item associated with the same site. For example, , AAA1234-WAN1 or AAA1234-WAN2 versus AAA1234-WAN1 & AAA1234-WAN2.
It's the only DNS I currently use, so I cannot attest to how it compares with other DNS services.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is being used by the entire organization, as well as with our clients. The biggest purpose it serves is for some of our failover records in case of an ISP outage. That's where we get the largest value from. Without this, we would have some sites and remote locations that wouldn't function.
  • Failover
  • Speed
  • Usability
  • Creating new users and assigning permissions - this is very clunky and difficult. Even more so since the usernames changed a while back.
We have 102 zones currently and are always adding more. The ease of use is a big plus. It's very easy to create everything you need and get to where you need in a few clicks. I have even started using the API and a powershell module to create/modify some records.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have been using Dyn Managed DNS to manage our external facing server pool and web farm. It makes the management of DNS so much easier and performs accurate zone transfers to our external facing DNS servers. Our decision to switch to Dyn Managed DNS has saved me so much time to make it worth the investment.
  • Performs frequent and reliable zone transfers to my external facing name servers
  • Allows me to review my changes before sending it out for world wide replication
  • Some parts of the UI were a little confusing but after working with it for a short time I have become very familiar with the interface
  • A way to customize reports tailored to my needs would be helpful
Makes DNS management very easy and fast - saving my employer a lot of money in my time.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Dyn is one of our external DNS providers, serving DNS queries for our properties to the general internet population.
  • Reliable
  • "Advanced" DNS Services Available (Load Balanced DNS, Monitoring and Automatic Failover, GeoDNS, etc)
  • An API for advanced users and bulk changes
  • Reasonably priced
  • As a relatively experienced engineer, I find the UI to be incredibly obtuse and counter-intuitive. I try and use the API for most things, but for some people that may not be an option.
  • The user documentation is a bit hard to navigate. DNS in general is pretty simple, so this is a minor gripe, but it's hard to find specific info sometimes.
Dyn is something of an industry standard when it comes to global DNS providers. The platform is used by many major web-based companies, and for good reason.

As one of the largest providers of public DNS services, Dyn is hard to beat in terms of reliability or feature set. However, if your QPS needs aren't at an enterprise level and you won't be taking advantage of some of the more "advanced" features like DNS Load Balancing, Traffic Director, or GeoDNS, you may be better off with a less-expensive plan or alternative.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Oracle Dyn Managed DNS is being used to support our e-learning platform across our organization by monitoring, customizing, and rapidly delivering sites. We use it for fail-over redundancy, and also in order to rapidly spin up new domain instances and records without the typical DNS propagation delay that's common in other platforms.
  • Easy to use interface
  • Reliable uptime
  • Optimized speeds
  • More robust billing system options
Oracle Dyn Managed DNS is well suited for companies that need to do rapid deployments of multiple web domain instances that need very minimal latency and maximum DNS uptime. It is also useful for companies that need to do fail-over capabilities and rapidly change DNS records on the fly. It is not as useful to companies who are not worried about serving content quickly or are not doing rapid changes.
March 29, 2019

Oracle Dyn DNS Review

Michael Patti | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Dyn to manage the DNS for most of our larger organizations. We eventually plan to move all our DNS into Dyn.
  • Excellent site up-time
  • Ease of configuration
  • Robust reporting
  • The DNS admin interface is a bit out-dated
  • Reporting display could be improved
Well suited to organizations who manage DNS for hundreds of clients, and who need secure, high-performing DNS management beyond what domain registrars can provide.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Oracle Dyn Managed DNS to support our extensive and world-wide auto scaling environment. We needed a flexible and API driven DNS tool and Oracle Dyn Managed DNS fit the bill perfectly.
  • Strong API support
  • Easy to use
  • Helpful software libraries
  • DNS changes are propagated quickly
  • UI is a little dated
  • UI is sometimes hard to understand
Use Oracle Dyn Managed DNS if you want a strong API driven DNS provider. You should use it if you have a large environment and need quick DNS updates to support auto scaling or cloud workloads.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Managed DNS for our primary public DNS for 4 domains. Our entire organization, which spans across Canada, relies on the service.
  • Very easy user interface to manage DNS.
  • Reliable. We have never had any downtime ever.
  • DNS records are updated and propagated very fast.
  • We have been Oracle customers for 25 years before Dyn. It is very encouraging now that Oracle is part of Dyn.
  • Some more help on newer technologies like DMARC, and specific TXT records that are not common.
It is very affordable for a reliable product.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our company is using what was previously DynECT to give fast access to our different domains to serve our sites for online scheduling. Since we have sites for several different languages and countries, we need to give fast access to each top level domain. We also use it for emails and proxies on different service providers.
  • Easy to use interface
  • Secure login with 2FA
  • Quick and works well
  • Not really, it works for what we need it for
It works great for providing fast access to the IPs of our different web sites, email services, proxies and we didn't ever look for an alternative since we moved [to this solution]. It was previously dynECT, and I find that name easier to remember than Oracle Dyn Managed DNS, but the service hasn't changed and we're still happy with it.
Christian Jensen | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use it for our DNS of the site and related services.
  • Stays running
  • reliable
  • The user interface is abysmal. I am shocked that it has been alive this long and is so terrible. Ghastly and bletcherous.
  • The whole user flow
  • logins and user management
  • audit logs
I would recommend Dyn only if every other option was off the table.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Oracle Dyn Managed DNS across our organization to help manage not only our DNS but also the DNS and a few other DNS related services for most of our clients. It's great having a central location for all management, not to mention an interface that is easy for new users as well as advanced options for power users.
  • Central Management
  • GUI works for beginners or power users
  • Ability to easily adjust settings per domain
  • Support was quick to respond the few times I've reached out to them
  • Historical configurations easily accessible
  • I can't really think of anything that stands out as a con.
Companies that are frequently needing to update DNS and/or have propagation occur quickly are well suited here. The ability to drop TTLs to 30 seconds makes migrations (and reverting) easy. DNS Active Failover is a great alternative for those that need high availability but don't want to sink lots of money into other technologies.

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
My company uses DynDNS to maintain a list of cloud targets that we provide to our customers. Using Dyn and the Dyn API allows us to easily create and manage records using automated processes saving us time and money by not having to manage and maintain our own DNS infrastructure.
  • The DYN API is fast and flexible allowing for additions, deletions, and changes to all be handled through automated processes.
  • The flexibility with the types of records and the ease of use provided by the API and UI make adding and changing records a breeze.
  • The customer portal is intuitive and very easy to navigate. Finding and managing records is very easy.
  • The WebUI is flash based and when you have a large number of records the UI can be very slow to respond.
  • When making changes sometimes it is easy to miss the notification that you haven't published the changes. It would be nice to have a more obvious prompt/reminder to publish the changes.
If you have several domains with a bunch of different records or just a large number of records to manage, DYN is a great solution.
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