Go Daddy Launches Cloud Servers (May 2, 2012) - SMBs and Enterprises can use IaaS quickly and affordably.
Go Daddy (godaddy.com), a domain name registrar and hosting provider, yesterday announced its newest offering - Go Daddy Cloud Servers. Designed to give users the power they need rapidly, Cloud Servers combines convenient control panels, a strong infrastructure and frequently used features, like firewalls and load balancers - all at a fraction of the cost of other services.
The company articulates that as the Internet expands and websites become more resource-intensive, many businesses are moving from traditional hosting to more advanced, scalable servers with flexible network options. Its Cloud Servers are designed for companies looking to take complete control of their web hosting environment. Setting up a private cloud server network can be a daunting task, but Cloud Servers allows complete setup in three easy steps.
According to it, Cloud Servers gives users the ability to configure server networks, create server snapshots and manage server resources, all in a friendly interface. Cloud Servers, available with either Linux or Windows operating systems and has a friendly, competitive billing model. Cloud Servers are backed by a specialized 24/7 Cloud Servers support team. Cloud Servers are also supported by the company's 24/7 Network Operations Center and Security Operations Team at no additional expense.
"It has always been Go Daddy's primary mission to help businesses grow through our cost-effective, reliable, feature-rich products," said Go Daddy CEO Warren Adelman. "Cloud Servers is a Go Daddy innovation that takes the complexity out of a complicated technology, yet gives users a substantial range of sophistication."
Go Daddy Vice President of Hosting Development Brian Krouse oversaw the development of the technology. "Cloud Servers takes 'Infrastructure-as-a-Service' to a whole new level," Krouse said. "Cloud Servers helps businesses that need both cost effective flexibility and scalability."
"Go Daddy Cloud Servers offers advanced networking features bundled into an affordable easy-to-use solution," said IDC Analyst Melanie Posey. "This approach is different from competitors' cloud models and offers customers a high degree of functionality and support at a reasonable price point."
Go Daddy Introduces Premium DNS (February 14, 2011) - Company provides 99.999% uptime combined with DNSSEC & easy-to-use control panel.
Go Daddy, a domain name Registrar and hosting provider, today introduced Premium DNS service. The company mentions that there are more than 200 million registered domain names that comprise the Internet, all of them running through DNS - a critical process which matches meaningful domain names (i.e. 'GoDaddy.com') with the numerical IP identifiers to locate that website on a particular server (i.e. 97.74.104.201). Its Premium DNS service provides users with tools to enhance and protect that process.
It avers that through the company's global Anycast (DNS routing) network, Premium DNS service offers faster, more reliable and more secure DNS resolution. Traffic is balanced across its multiple data centers throughout the United States, Europe and Asia, to eliminate a single point of failure and to route DNS activities for maximized performance.
According to the company, Premium DNS users enjoy options such as creating a vanity name and custom DNS Zone templates for their domain name's server, as well as adding multiple users to one account. Customers have the option to perform bulk imports, exports and updates to multiple domain names at the same time. Most significantly, customers are given the option to easily enable DNSSEC - a security tool that authenticates DNS records when an internet user tries to visit their domain name. By assigning a specially-encrypted key to validate the DNS lookup, this tool can help prevent traffic from being diverted to a malicious computer and compromised, as part of an internet attack. It adds that the company's Premium DNS service offers a simple 'one-click' solution to set up DNSSEC - simplifying a process usually riddled with complexities.
It says that typically, DNS management can be expensive to operate, not to mention confusing. But the company is now offering this ability through a user-friendly approach, at a fraction of competitor prices - all backed with its free, 24/7 customer support.
"Go Daddy customers not only take pride in their online presence, but many also depend on it for their business," said Go Daddy CEO and Founder Bob Parsons. "With the customization tools we provide through Premium DNS, customers can easily tailor their DNS functionality and - it comes with a 99.999 percent uptime guarantee!"
VeriSign Deploys DNS Security Extensions in .NET Zone (December 10, 2010) - Process of securing Domain Name System builds on effort to protect DNS data from cache poisoning and man-in-the-middle attacks.
VeriSign, Inc., a provider of internet infrastructure services, today announced that it has deployed DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) in the .NET zone. The company mentions that the .NET zone is the largest yet to be DNSSEC enabled, with more than 13 million domain name registrations worldwide. The .NET signing also represents one of the most critical implementations of DNSSEC technology, since .NET serves as the underpinning for many critical internet functions.
It explains that DNSSEC applies digital signatures to DNS data to authenticate the data's origin and verify its integrity as it moves throughout the Internet. The security extensions are designed to protect the DNS from attacks intended to redirect queries to malicious sites by corrupting DNS data stored on recursive servers. The successful implementation of DNSSEC will greatly reduce a hacker's ability to manipulate DNS data. The resulting digital signatures on that DNS data are validated through a 'chain of trust'.
The company states that the .NET milestone is the latest achievement in its efforts to improve the integrity of internet communications and transactions by implementing DNSSEC throughout the DNS. By protecting the .NET zone with DNSSEC, it can now include DNSSEC-enabled records from domain name Registrars in its authoritative .NET Registry. Today's milestone follows months of deliberate and rigorous testing of DNSSEC, and builds on the company's collaboration with EDUCAUSE and the U.S. Department of Commerce to deploy DNSSEC in the .EDU zone earlier this year. It adds that the company expects to sign .COM by first quarter 2011.
The company further explains that a key part of its DNSSEC collaboration with the Internet community is its operation of the DNSSEC Interoperability Lab. Staffed by the company personnel, the lab helps solution and service providers determine if DNS packets containing DNSSEC information, which are typically larger than standard DNS packets, will cause problems for their internet and enterprise infrastructure components. The lab is helping to ensure that the entire internet communications ecosystem is ready for DNSSEC.
It further states that its DNSSEC initiatives also dovetail with Project Apollo, the company's effort to dramatically scale up the Internet infrastructure that delivers DNS from its current levels by a factor of a thousand. Doing so will help to manage an estimated 4 quadrillion queries per day in 2020. The Apollo effort follows on the heels of the successful completion of the company' Project Titan that aimed to improve DNS infrastructure tenfold over 2007 levels. Project Apollo is designed to move beyond Titan, to help the company meet the Internet infrastructure challenges of the next decade.
"VeriSign's roll-out of DNSSEC is on schedule with the signing of .NET in 2010. The DNS data associated with .NET registrations will be protected from many hackers and identity thieves trying to redirect users' queries to malicious sites through cache poisoning," said Raynor Dahlquist, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Naming Services at VeriSign. "There is, however, more work to be done, as ISPs, browser vendors, Registrars and other members of the DNS ecosystem confirm that their solutions and services are ready for DNSSEC enablement. We'll continue to work with all of those parties to shepherd a stable deployment of DNSSEC, particularly as we prepare to sign the .COM zone in Q1 2011."
"Go Daddy works to keep the Internet safe for all users, and DNSSEC is an important additional step toward keeping the infrastructure more secure," said Warren Adelman, President and Chief Operating Officer of GoDaddy.com, a domain name Registrar. "That's why Go Daddy supports DNSSEC for .NET. We believe DNSSEC helps us continue providing our customers with what they want and need - security and reliability."
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