DynDNS.com Acquires EveryDNS

funfail writes in with the news that, five days ago, EveryDNS was sold to DynDNS.com. From the announcement and e-mail from EveryDNS's founder, David Ulevitch: "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." EveryDNS has been one of the most popular free (or one-time donation) DNS suppliers. From the FAQ at the link above: "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."

Re:Easy answer

[radtea]

we will not be making any changes to the service you are currently receiving for the foreseeable future.

Yeah, and I bet they are telling the soon-to-be-former employees of EveryDNS that they don't have any staffing changes planned "for the forseeable future" either, the "forseeable future" for the average PHB being about 4 seconds.

nerd fail

[jollyreaper]

I used to smugly think I caught people being redundant saying DNS server. Comic book guy voice: "Do you say Persional Information Number Number? Do you say Automatic Teller Machine Machine? Fools." And then I found out that DNS is Domain Name System or Domain Name Service, never Domain Name Server. Domain Name Service Server is perfectly acceptable usage. Haven't felt so n00b since I called Wine an emulator.

nerd fail nerd fail (and that's not redundant)

[Zero__Kelvin]

"Not sure about that. A server is something that serves. A service is something served."

Right, which is why it would be wrong to talk about the IRS as having a server, and why when the IRS invades your business and takes all your servers, they tell you that it was a pleasure servicing you ...

"It's sort of like saying that a waiter in a restaurant will now wait on you."

You really haven't thought your effort to be pedantic through very well at all, have you. I suppose the hostess could say "The waiter will now do that thing he does" but that would be problematic if for example you just saw a certain movie produced by Tom Hanks and consequently expected him to break out in song, or if for example you were about to order a white drink of creamy consistency, since you might be afraid that he might do that thing he does in your drink. So as you can see it makes perfect sense to be specific about what the waiter is about to do.

Of course, these days you usually can't find a waiter, since they usually refer to themselves as servers now! Maybe the next time your out to dinner you should request your server to resolve a Domain Name to an IP address. I expect that you'll be the "waiter" for an infinite period in that scenario, though ;-)