New study from DNS Made Easy finds that 65% of the top retail domains are vulnerable to the same kind of outage that plagued the US East Coast in late October.
DNS Made Easy Research Finds 65% of Top 100 Retail Domains are at Risk of Single DNS Provider Outages
The most effective way to ensure uptime is to use multiple DNS providers. Think of it as adding a supplementary network to help handle your traffic.
RESTON, VA (PRWEB) NOVEMBER 16, 2016
DNS Made Easy releases a new study that calls attention to the dozens of retail domains still vulnerable to single DNS provider outages. Last month, a major DNS provider was attacked and many of its client’s domains were unavailable for hours on the US East Coast. The event was a wake-up call for enterprises and administrators still using only one DNS provider. As the holiday season approaches, DNS Made Easy is encouraging online retailers to use more than one DNS provider to ensure total availability during peak shopping days.
DNS Made Easy researchers looked at the top 100 retail domains according to Alexa, and found how many DNS providers each domain was using. Sixty-five percent of the top domains were outsourcing their DNS to a single provider. The researchers were shocked to see so many domains still vulnerable to single DNS provider attacks; even after the crippling effects of the East Coast outage and the holiday season around the corner.
The DNS Made Easy research team conducted a similar study days after the attack, but on the top 100 worldwide domains. The results showed that some domains that previously only used the downed provider had already added a secondary DNS provider. A week after the study, researchers found that even more domains (from many different providers) had added additional providers to their DNS configurations.
While there are so many assets that contribute to a website’s performance and availability, DNS is the most critical. That’s because DNS is the ingress point that decides whether or not a website will be available or not, before most other assets can even load.
“The most effective way to ensure uptime is to use multiple DNS providers. Think of it as adding a supplementary network to help handle your traffic,” says President of DNS Made Easy Steven Job. Secondary DNS works by distributing a domain’s query traffic between two or more providers. If a DNS provider becomes unavailable, the domain’s query traffic is automatically served by the available DNS provider(s) with virtually no effects to end-users.
About DNS Made Easy
DNS Made Easy is a subsidiary of Tiggee, and is a world leader in providing global IP Anycast enterprise DNS services. DNS Made Easy implemented the industry’s first triple independent Anycast cloud architecture for maximum DNS speed and DNS redundancy. Originally launched in 2002, DNS Made Easy’s services have grown to manage hundreds of thousands of customer domains receiving more than 30 billion queries per day. Today, DNS Made Easy builds on a proud history of uptime and is the preferred DNS hosting choice for most major brands, especially companies that compare price and performance of enterprise IP Anycast alternatives.
