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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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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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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.
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
Oracle Dyn Managed DNS Competitors
Oracle Dyn Managed DNS Technical Details
| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
| Supported Countries | Global 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
| Consumers | 0% |
|---|---|
| Small Businesses (1-50 employees) | 10% |
| Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees) | 50% |
| Enterprises (more than 500 employees) | 40% |
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May 14, 2019
Oracle Dyn Managed DNS Rocks...
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
May 07, 2019
Sensible review of Dyn from a non-power user
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
May 01, 2019
DNS for everyday
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.
April 29, 2019
Oracle Dyn Managed DNS is Awesome
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.
April 26, 2019
Great service and cost effective
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
April 23, 2019
Oracle Dyn Managed DNS - A trusted DNS service
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.
April 19, 2019
OracleDyn isa KEY COMPONENT for High Availability
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
April 18, 2019
So far so good
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.
April 16, 2019
Great, stable service
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)
April 11, 2019
Everyday Dyn-DNS user with real-world experiences.
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.
April 09, 2019
A great managed DNS service!
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.
April 02, 2019
Dyn Managed DNS - A Solid Choice
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.
April 02, 2019
What a way to avoid IT headaches!
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
March 26, 2019
Why I love Oracle Dyn Managed DNS!
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.
March 25, 2019
Easy to use, secure and stable DNS service
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
March 20, 2019
Bletcherous User Interface
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
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.
I was using DYN managed DNS to provide DNS service for my blog, thefrugalgirl.com.
- Our DNS service was provided without any hiccups.
- Dyn Managed DNS is wildly overpriced as compared to other similar services; also, the charges for spikes in traffic seemed unnecessary.
- Dyn Managed DNS had very inflexible contract options; to downgrade our service when the site traffic went down— we had to agree to use Dyn for another two years! The customer service representatives who we had contact with did not seem interested in working with us or earning our business. We did not feel that they cared.
March 09, 2019
Extremely Satisfied Team!
We manage roughly 300 websites as part of our overall marketing plan for our clients. We use Dyn to manage DNS for just about all of them. The biggest thing it helps with is the cname flattening, which allows us to move websites across servers and maintain connectivity, because the A record isn't directly linked to an IP address.
- We love the cname flattening. This allows us to be extremely flexible.
- We love their user management, which allows us to manage our 15 users across departments.
- The advanced DNS tools really help us to get the most from our DNS needs.
- The interface seems slightly outdated compared with the likes of GoDaddy and even CloudFlare. We still love the functionality, but that is one recommendation I have with my history in the front end.
- I'd like to see Dyn offer open source SSLs. This is one thing I still really like about CloudFlare's service.
March 09, 2019
Dyn is a great DNS product for medium to large organizations that want resilience and security in DNS management.
We used to host external DNS servers inside the organization on some Solaris 5 Unix boxes, until a couple of years ago. My predecessor was involved with transitioning to a hosted DNS product, but we didn't stay with that provider for very long. When that guy left, my coworker chose Dyn as hosted DNS, and when he left it fell to me. I had already been using it for some time though.
I like the interface of it. We have about 15 domains for which we use it. Updates were very fast. I use Lets Encrypt's certbot for SSL certificates. One of the sites I used it for is limited to LAN and a handful of external IPs, so renewing certificates was a hassle. The newer method to prove domain ownership is by creating a DNS TXT record and letting the renewing script pick up the TXT token. This could take a while with privately managed DNS, but Dyn has a large presence, so updates propagate fairly quickly.
My company was recently purchased and the parent co. has its own DNS management choice, so we've moved out of Dyn :(. If it were up to me, I'd like to stay with Dyn.
Lastly, the Export editor is very useful. Among other functions, you can export the zone files individually for backup purposes.
- Updates are very fast.
- The serial number is updated using the standard YYYYmmddHHMMSSxx format, and the zone notes are kept for a while.
- They employ 2FA (Google Authenticator, not that SMS garbage) for signing in. I've tried to push this, but it wasn't adopted by all of my IT colleagues. At least if our DNS had been compromised, it wasn't going to be with my account.
- The account ownership can be a big to-do if the account owner leaves the organization. My leader was let go, and the account was in her name. When my company was purchased and she was let go, we moved to another DNS hosted platform, and getting the account out of her name was complicated. I suppose that's best for security though.
- I really don't have any complaints about Dyn. It's a great service.
- I'm told our plan was expensive. I don't know exactly what it ran, though.
As a mostly online retailer, with several brands under our umbrella, our websites are what brings the money in. Therefore, finding a reliable, fast, easily manageable, resilient DNS provider was imperative. Our IT organization uses Dyn as the primary DNS provider for all of our 100+ domains. We use their Managed DNS service.
- Dyn's API is extensive. Any and all tasks can be automated, be it updating an MX record for every single domain, or doing a quick audit to see if an IP is used somewhere. No other DNS provider has that.
- Reporting and auditing. We can run reports against queries, against users, against changes. Everything is tracked.
- User Interface. It's simple, efficient and allows me to do quick tasks, like adding a record to a zone, in just a few clicks.
- Uptime. I mean, except that one DDoS against Dyn that brought down half of the internet, I never saw them down.
- Bulk record change can only be done via API. Which could make it harder for novice users to use, having to rely on manually going from zone to zone.
March 06, 2019
Oracle Dyn Rocks!
We are running multiple services for our customers who rely on fast responses from the servers. We use a container tag to deliver online advertisements to our clients. Within the container, we have APIs that deliver user/site information. Delivery and collection of that information is very crucial and should be done in miliseconds. That's where Oracle Dyn shines. It had the quickest response time that we tested.
Domain management for these services is the first most important part of the structure. Response time is really important to us. Oracle Managed DNS makes it very easy to set up and run flawlessly in no time.
Domain management for these services is the first most important part of the structure. Response time is really important to us. Oracle Managed DNS makes it very easy to set up and run flawlessly in no time.
- Easy set up
- Great response time
- Great customer service
- Abundance of features
- Pricing
- Quick tool/tip option to explain some of the more technical setups
March 01, 2019
DYN DNS, easy to use, reliable, and FAST
We use Oracle Dyn Managed DNS to manage all of our domains. We used to use the ISP's DNS services, but switching to Dyn Managed DNS reduces our time for changes/updates from days to minutes.
- DNS updates can be seen in minutes
- You get a summary of changes prior to publishing, to allow for proofreading your changes
- Audit log of changes made
- Maybe provide better automation for zone transfers
- Some form of automating the creation of reverse lookup zones for small subnets, including the ability to send name record requests to the remote ISP that owns the full IP block
February 26, 2019
Great for managing a large number of domains
Our organization uses it to control the DNS of all of our support clients. It gives our technicians a single location and a single user account to update DNS no matter which client they are helping. It gives our managers the ability to remove access of former employees to the DNS of all of our clients at once.
- Easily find a specific domain within the domains a user has access to
- Easily edit/update existing DNS entries
- Verification before publishing changes
- The UI could use some improvement in regards to DNS updates. One seems overly complicated and the other doesn't always line up properly.
February 22, 2019
Fantastic product for multiple domains
We use it to manage all our external DNS traffic. This is used for several domains we own and we need to constantly keep it updated as our configurations change or new configurations need to be implemented.
- Makes it very easy to manage our external DNS records.
- Great explanation on how to configure things if you're not sure.
- Tech support is a click away and it's very easy to get answers to questions or problems you are facing.
- Would be nice if I could reset my 2FA myself rather then calling into support, but I understand why it is set up how it is.
- Other than that I do not really have anything else I can think of as I have had no issues.