
Distinguishing Among DNS Services Part 3: Investment and Innovation
Jonathan Zarkower | | authoritativedns, dns, dnsbilling, dnsddos, dnspricing, dnsproviders, dnsresilience, dnsscale, dnssecurity, dnsservices, edgedns, globaltrafficmanagement, loadbalancing
This is Part 3 of a 3-part blog series highlighting some of the distinguishing aspects of Akamai's authoritative DNS services, Edge DNS and Global Traffic Management. Part 1 focused on Akamai's DNS platform and what sets it apart. Part 2 ... Read More

Distinguishing Among DNS Services Part 2: The Economics
Jonathan Zarkower | | authoritativedns, dns, dnsbilling, dnsddos, dnspricing, dnsproviders, dnsresilience, dnsscale, dnssecurity, dnsservices, edgedns, globaltrafficmanagement, loadbalancing
This is Part 2 of a 3-part blog series highlighting some of the distinguishing aspects of Akamai's DNS services, Edge DNS and Global Traffic Management. Part 1 focused on Akamai's DNS platform and what sets it apart. In Part 2, we take a closer look at the economics of DNS ... Read More

Distinguishing Among DNS Services Part 1: The Platform
Jonathan Zarkower | | authoritativedns, dns, dnsddos, dnsplatform, dnsproviders, dnsresilience, dnsscale, dnssecurity, dnsservices, edgedns, globaltrafficmanagement
This is Part 1 of a 3-part blog series highlighting some of the distinguishing aspects of Akamai's DNS services, Edge DNS and Global Traffic Management. To begin the series, we focus on Akamai's DNS platform, which was the subject of a technical paper presented at SIGCOMM 2020 this past August ... Read More

Akamai Drives New Standards and Enhances Authoritative DNS and Load Balancing Services
Jonathan Zarkower | | Cloud Security, Commerce, dns, edgedns, Financial Services, globaltrafficmanagement, healthcare, Media Delivery, OPEN, Partners, Public Sector, Retail & Commerce, Standards and Protocols, Web Performance, zero trust
For more than 20 years, Akamai's customers have trusted our global edge platform to deliver their content, secure their web applications, and accelerate end-user experiences. As the basis for our mapping functions, Akamai DNS has always been essential to the reliability and performance of our platform and our services, and ... Read More

Introducing Akamai Edge DNS
At Akamai, we live by the motto "Intelligent Security Starts at the Edge," which is why we're excited to announce that we are changing the name of our authoritative DNS service from Fast DNS to Edge DNS. If you are ... Read More