DNS

Now 50 Million Daily Users Strong, OpenDNS Wants to Be “the Akamai for Security”

Liz Gannes in Enterprise on May 25 at 8:22 am PT

OpenDNS founder and CEO David Ulevitch wants his company to become “the Akamai for security.”

Google: We’ll Make Your Site Faster, Just Give Us Your Keys [UPDATED]

John Paczkowski in News on July 28, 2011 at 3:31 am PT

A new development in Google’s ongoing “Let’s Make the Web Faster” effort.

Facebook Needs a Fail Whale [UPDATED]

John Paczkowski in News on September 23, 2010 at 1:15 pm PT

No word on the cause yet, but Facebook is down after suffering technical issues for the better part of the morning. Users attempting to access the site are encountering DNS Failure messages.

Hackers Bring Holiday Headaches to Amazon, Wal-Mart

Peter Kafka in Media on December 24, 2009 at 5:31 am PT

Bah, humbug! Hackers spent part of Wednesday attacking Neustar, the DNS provider that helps link some of the Web’s biggest Web sites to consumers, and ended up disrupting big retailers like Amazon and Wal-Mart for more than an hour.

Twitter's Biz Stone Looks Back at 2009 and Forward to 2010: We're Now an Information Network, People!

Kara Swisher in News on December 22, 2009 at 1:25 pm PT

While conducting a tour of Twitter’s hip new HQ in San Francisco, BoomTown sat down to do a video interview with Twitter co-founder Biz Stone. Stone talked about where the much hyped start-up has been and where it is going. He called the current period “the end of the beginning” for Twitter and noted that 2010 will be all about “building a business.” Stone also said he wants people to think of Twitter much less as a microblogging service and much more as an “information network.” In the past, I have dubbed him: No-Biz-Like-No-Biz-Plan Stone. But in 2010, I might have to change that to Down-to-Biz Nose-to-the-Grind-Stone.