EveryDNS.net was one of the world's largest free DNS management services, at one time providing DNS services for over 135,000 domains, for over a decade, ending in 2011.

History

EveryDNS was founded in June 2001 by

David Ulevitch David A. Ulevitch (born December 10, 1981) is an American entrepreneur and Venture capital investor. He was the founder and CEO of the enterprise security company OpenDNS (acquired by Cisco) and founder of EveryDNS (acquired by Dyn). In December ...

. On January 7, 2010, EveryDNS was purchased by Dyn Inc. EveryDNS's web site was shut down on August 31, 2011 an
all EveryDNS services were retired
on September 9, 2011. Existing users were offered the opportunity to migrate over to equivalent services at Dyn Inc. starting 90 days prior to August 31, 2011.

Services

EveryDNS offered services to

webmasters A webmaster is a person responsible for maintaining one or more websites. The title may refer to web architects, web developers, site authors, website administrators, website owners, website coordinators, or website publishers. The duties of ...

who do not maintain their own Domain Name Services or who wished to use EveryDNS as a backup to their existing implementations. EveryDNS also offered

dynamic DNS Dynamic DNS (DDNS) is a method of automatically updating a name server in the Domain Name System (DNS), often in real time, with the active DDNS configuration of its configured hostnames, addresses or other information. The term is used to desc ...

resolution,

AXFR DNS zone transfer, also sometimes known by the inducing DNS query type AXFR, is a type of DNS transaction. It is one of the many mechanisms available for administrators to replicate DNS databases across a set of DNS servers. A zone transfer us ...

service, and domain2web redirection. EveryDNS supported SPF TXT records for donators.

Backup services

Because of the danger of a distributed-denial-of-service attack on a domain name server, many companies outsource their domain name service management to companies such as Akamai. EveryDNS allows webmasters to use their servers for geographically distributed DNS service for free.

Backend

EveryDNS runs on an implementation of Daniel J. Bernstein's TinyDNS. EveryDNS uses

MySQL MySQL () is an open-source relational database management system (RDBMS). Its name is a combination of "My", the name of co-founder Michael Widenius's daughter My, and "SQL", the acronym for Structured Query Language. A relational database ...

and

Perl Perl is a family of two high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming languages. "Perl" refers to Perl 5, but from 2000 to 2019 it also referred to its redesigned "sister language", Perl 6, before the latter's name was offic ...

to manage TinyDNS's

hash table In computing, a hash table, also known as hash map, is a data structure that implements an associative array or dictionary. It is an abstract data type that maps keys to values. A hash table uses a hash function to compute an ''index'', ...

PHP PHP is a general-purpose scripting language geared toward web development. It was originally created by Danish-Canadian programmer Rasmus Lerdorf in 1993 and released in 1995. The PHP reference implementation is now produced by The PHP Group. ...

is used to render the user interface, with information out of the

backend database.

Wikileaks.org controversy

On December 2, 2010, EveryDNS dropped

WikiLeaks WikiLeaks () is an international non-profit organisation that published news leaks and classified media provided by anonymous sources. Julian Assange, an Australian Internet activist, is generally described as its founder and director and ...

from its entries, citing

DDoS In computing, a denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) is a cyber-attack in which the perpetrator seeks to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users by temporarily or indefinitely disrupting services of a host connec ...

attacks that "threatened the stability of its infrastructure". Everydns.com made the following public statement:

First, let’s be clear, this is a difficult issue to deal with and there are opinions on all sides. Second, EveryDNS.net, the world’s largest free managed DNS provider, is not taking a position on the content hosted on the wikileaks.org or wikileaks.ch website, it is following established policies so as not to put any one EveryDNS.net user’s interests ahead of any others. Lastly, regardless of what people say about the actions of EveryDNS.net, we know this much is true - we believe in our New Hampshire state motto, Live Free or Die. ... At 10PM EST, on Wednesday December 1, 2010 a 24-hour termination notification email was sent to the email address associated with the wikileaks.org account. In addition to this email, notices were sent to Wikileaks via Twitter and the chat function available through the wikileaks.org website. Any downtime of the wikileaks.org website has resulted from its failure to, with plentiful advance notice, use another DNS solution. Yesterday, pursuant to the EveryDNS.net Acceptable Use Policy the primary DNS hosted domains were disabled. Today, also in accordance with the EveryDNS.net Acceptable Use Policy, the secondary DNS hosted domains, including wikileaks.ch, were disabled. EveryDNS.net is not taking a position on the content hosted on the wikileaks.org or wikileaks.ch website, it is following established policies. No one EveryDNS.net user has the right to put at risk, yesterday, today or tomorrow, the service that hundreds of thousands of other websites depend on.

References

External links

EveryDNS.net
official website. {{DEFAULTSORT:Everydns Alternative Internet DNS services Dynamic DNS