Oracle acquired the DNS provider that brought the Web to its knees

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by Sindy Cator on November 22, 2016 at 5:08 am

In a bid to transform itself from a business software vendor to a cloud computing solutions company, Oracle has acquired Dyn, a global DNS provider. If the name sounds familiar, it might be because you heard it last month, when a major DDoS attack took down Dyn’s servers and rendered several major sites, including GitHub, Twitter, Reddit and Airbnb, inaccessible. How did that happen? Let’s first look at what Dyn does: It provides services relating to Domain Name System (DNS), which is used to resolve human-readable web addresses, like “thenextweb.com”, against IP addresses. In other words, it’s what your browser…