EveryDNS

EveryDNS.net was one of the largest free DNS management services in the world. The service ended on September 9, 2011.

history

EveryDNS was founded in June 2001 by David Ulevitch. Dyn Inc bought the project on January 7, 2010.

services

EveryDNS is geared towards website operators who do not maintain their own domain name service.

There was a risk of distributed denial-of-service attacks on a DNS server. Many companies, such as Akamai , choose specialized services like EveryDNS.

Wikileaks controversy

On December 2, 2010, the WikiLeaks disclosure platform was no longer accessible under its usual domain wikileaks.org. Responsible for this was EveryDNS, which shut down the services for WikiLeaks "in accordance with the terms and conditions" at 10 pm local time. The company said there had been multiple distributed denial-of-service attacks on the site. To protect other customers, the relationship with WikiLeaks was ended.

The official statement from EveryDNS read:

"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. "

Web links

• EveryDNS.net , Official Website.
• EveryDNS PHP API
• EveryDNS Python API and Command Shell

Individual evidence

1. ^ Dyn Inc. Further Cements Position as Global Managed DNS Leader Through Acquisition of EveryDNS. on: dyn.com , January 7, 2010.
2. ↑ Cyber ​​attacks: US company revokes WikiLeaks' Internet address. on: Spiegel online. December 3, 2010.
3. ^ Raphael G. Satter, Malin Rising: WikiLeaks dropped by domain name provider. ( Memento of the original from May 15, 2019 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: The Charlotte Observer . December 3, 2010. 
4. ↑ " December 2, 2010 - 10:00 pm ( Memento of the original from December 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice . " EveryDNS. Retrieved December 4, 2010. 
5. ↑ EveryDNS.net status . EveryDNS / DynDNS. Archived from the original on December 5, 2010. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 6, 2010.