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(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Internet infrastructure services provider Afilias (www.afilias.info) has expanded its managed Domain Name System services with the availability of its new FlexDNS Platform, providing Afilias’ DNS customers with new options for managing their DNS over Afilias’ network.
Afilias’ Managed DNS service leverages the DNS network that supports 15 top-level domains including .INFO and .ORG. According to Afilias’ Thursday announcement, the new FlexDNS platform including a broader range of options for managing their DNS: a Web-based portal, AXFR (DNS zone transfer), or an Application Programming Interface. This provides new features for registrars and other Web service providers, or for users who have a need to make frequent DNS changes in an automated fashion.
“Afilias’ Managed DNS service is becoming increasingly popular as threats across the Internet grow and organizations recognize the need for better DNS that can guarantee 100-percent up-time,” Afilias corporate services vice president John Kane said in a statement. “Other solutions are often limited in features or functionality. However, with the launch of our FlexDNS Platform, Afilias makes DNS management easier for a wider range of customers, including registrars, whose domain customers often rely on them for DNS services.”
Most organizations’ DNS operations are a single point of failure, according to Afilias. And with its new platform, Afilias is allowing any type of organization to easily integrate its DNS services into their operations to improve reliability and protect from DDoS, or for value-added resellers to offer premium DNS services.
“Our FlexDNS platform provides an ideal solution for corporations as well as other managed service providers like hosting companies or domain name registrars who need to easily integrate a secure and reliable DNS network to augment their product offering,” added Kane. “Afilias provides significant cost savings over building out your own network, and provides DNS that is already proven to support millions of domains and billions of DNS transactions across the Internet.”
Providing an automated DNS updating solution that reflects these changes worldwide in near real time, AXFR support gives customers the option to act as a “hidden master” and transmit their updates to Afilias via AXFR. The new AXFR option is especially useful for customers with large zones, like TLD registries, and it provides superior service in either a Primary or Secondary DNS role.
Danny Aerts, managing director of the Swedish Internet Infrastructure Foundation (www.iis.se) (which manages the .SE registry for Sweden), said the Swedish organization now uses the AXFR portion of Afilias’ FlexDNS platform to provide secondary DNS for their top-level domain. “As the first DNSSEC-signed TLD, Afilias has made it easy for us to provide 100% reliable DNS,” Aerts said. The .SE registry is using the Afilias FlexDNS platform via AXFR to manage secondary DNS load for nearly a million .se domains.
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