Network Improvements Assure DynDNS Availability

October 5, 2005

Recent improvements to the Dynamic Network Services, Inc. (DynDNS) domestic network have assured availability to Internet users served by the bandwidth provider Cogent Communications. Recent changes in core Internet routing would have left Cogent Communications' customers unable to reach and use DynDNS' West coast presence.

"Without augmentation, three percent of the global Internet would not optimally reach our West Coast site. While that number may seem small when compared to the size of the global Internet, we anticipated a significant performance impact to Cogent customers, " said President and Chief Technology Officer Tom Daly. "Assuring that we're available to everyone on the Internet is critical."

The event occured at approximately 5:50am EDT, October 5, 2005. No impact was observed to DynDNS' DNS, MailHop, Recursive DNS and Network Monitoring services. DynDNS engineers carefully monitored the situation to ensure performance and reachability.

"We're always happy to increase the carriers in our blend of bandwidth providers, " said CEO and CFO Jeremy Hitchcock. The additional carrier is nLayer Communications.

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About nLayer Communications Inc.

nLayer Communications, Inc. is a leading provider of wholesale IP Transit, Transport, and Managed Network Services in major markets throughout North America. Founded in 2002 by an experienced team of Internet professionals, nLayer was designed from the ground up to better address the needs of modern companies for higher capacity, better performance, and lower costs from their Internet services.

About Dynamic Network Services Inc.

Founded in 1998, originally as a free DNS service for the Perl and open source communities, Dynamic Network Services Inc. (Dyn Inc.) has grown quietly and steadily to become one of the Internet's largest and most reliable providers of domain, zone and email solutions, through its innovative and well supported services. Still offering its signature free service, the company today plays a key role in keeping the Internet's DNS infrastructure at large running smoothly and stays faithful to its core values of engineering excellence. Additionally, Dyn Inc. also offers Dynect®, an enterprise class dynamic DNS offering.

DynDNS® and Dynect® are registered trademarks of Dynamic Network Services Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.