Who: David Ulevitch

Start Date: June 2001 and still going rock solid

Why: DNS is often compared to the analog equivalent of the White Pages. If this is the case, why do people pay for DNS hosting when their phone number is listed in the white pages for free? We feel that DNS should be free for both listings and lookups, not simply the latter.

How: Our backend is based on Dan Bernstein's fantastic tinydns DNS server. Utilizing mysql and perl we are able to control the tinydns hash tables to quickly generate data files. On the frontend we are using a combination of mysql and php to make a (hopefully) easy to use web-based DNS administration system.

Goal: Our goal for this project is to have a DNS service for the internet that is a) easy to use and b) free and c) 100% reliable.

Where to go from here: In the future we will be rolling out more services and features depending on what users want. To be absolutely clear however, our core DNS service will always be free.