Resources - DNS & Traffic Management

Domain Registrations, Delegations, and DNS.

Network outages, more often than not, are the result of human error. Understanding the domain registration and delegation process, pitfalls, and areas of potential error will enable your organization to put best practices into place.

Managed DNS

Data Sheet

Optimizing a Multi-CDN Strategy with NS1

Many enterprises find it increasingly difficult to deliver a consistently high-quality end user experience to a global online audience using a single CDN. NS1 makes it easy for online organizations to reap the benefits of a multi-CDN strategy.

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[Video] The Art of Measuring DNS Performance

In this 30 minute webinar, Devin Bernosky, Solutions Engineer, will discuss how enterprises should approach measuring their name server performance, why it’s critical to do so, and address a variety of benchmarking fallacies.

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Linked Records

Linked Records act like a CNAME, but resolve faster and can use all the intelligence and rich data associated with advanced records. Learn more about NS1 Linked Record functionality.

Managed DNS

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[Video] Accelerate Application Delivery with Cloud Based DNS

NS1 and KEMP Technologies explain how enterprises can leverage advances in intelligent DNS to solve key challenges in application delivery.

Dedicated DNS Managed DNS

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[Video] NS1 Expert Series: Demystifying EDNS(0)

EDNS(0) is a mystery to most engineers despite being a set of critical changes that will have an impact on internet networking, security, and performance. Watch this overview to build your knowledge and become your organization's EDNS(0) expert.

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[Video] Immediate Threats to eCommerce: What You Need to Know to Survive

Join the NS1 team as we discuss the effect of poor performance and outages on your business. We’ll review what’s at stake and simple, practical steps to help introduce resiliency and reliability into your application.

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GSLB Moves to the Cloud

There is always a need to intelligently distribute workloads across multiple servers, whether those servers are real or virtual, permanent or ephemeral. But there is chronic gap in the ability to reliably distribute workloads across multiple Clouds.

Managed DNS

Data Sheet

NS1’S Cloud Based GSLB Solution With HA Proxy

Intelligent DNS traffic management from NS1 enables enterprises to implement a wide variety of global traffic management solutions. This is based on three key capabilities of the NS1 DNS system.

Managed DNS

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[Video] A New Look at GSLB: How Intelligent DNS Optimizes Your Infrastructure

As enterprises scale infrastructure across data centers, private and public clouds, there is a need to optimally distribute workloads on a global basis.

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Debugging DNS Redux: Become Your Organization’s DNS Expert

In this extended webinar, Nate Lindstrom, VP Solutions Engineering discusses a number of approaches and techniques that can be used to debug common (and uncommon) DNS issues.

Pulsar Dedicated DNS Managed DNS

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NS1 Research Note: Amazon S3’s Outage Shows Why Keeping All of Your Eggs in One Basket Can Expose You to Risk

When moving to the cloud, keep there best practices in mind to greatly reduce the likelihood of a business impacting outage.

Managed DNS

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[Video] Cloud Migration: Taking Your Business to the Next Level

Cloud computing has gone from novelty to necessity. Kim Lacerte, Technical Marketing Manager, explains how a smooth transition to the cloud is critical to your success and what steps you should take.

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[Video] Dual Network DNS Delivery: Why Two is Better Than One

Secondary DNS protects your network by complementing your existing DNS infrastructure. Eliminate service and performance risk from massive DDoS attacks and other vulnerabilities.

Dedicated DNS Managed DNS

Analyst Report

Gartner Report - If External DNS Fails, So Does Your Digital Business

In this complimentary research report from Gartner, discover the hidden risks that poorly architected DNS setups pose to your digital business and learn how to protect yourself from the ongoing threat of mega-DDoS attacks and network outages.

Managed DNS

White Paper

Migrating to the Cloud? What to Consider

Explore the reasons to move to the Cloud, what type of Cloud configurations are available to implement, and both the pros and cons of moving some or all operations to the Cloud.

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Debugging DNS - Resolve Common Issues Like a Pro

In this Webinar, join Nate Lindstrom, VP Sales Engineering, and Jonathan Lewis, VP Product, as they discuss a number of approaches and techniques that can be used to debug common DNS issues.

Dedicated DNS Managed DNS

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Implementing a Multi-CDN Strategy With Intelligent DNS and Traffic Management

The power to leverage multiple CDN providers in delivering online services to a large, global end user population delivers significant business benefits.

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[Video] DNS: The Behind-the-Scenes Network MVP of Digital Transformation

Jason Thompson, VP Marketing, discusses why enterprises engaged in digital transformation need an advanced DNS and traffic management strategy to deliver reliability and exceptional user experience to their customers.

Pulsar Dedicated DNS Managed DNS

Analyst Report

IDC Technology Spotlight - DNS: The Behind-the-Scenes Network MVP of Digital Transformation

This IDC Technology Spotlight focuses on why enterprises engaged in digital transformation need an advanced DNS and traffic management strategy and discusses the role NS1 plays in the DNS and traffic management market.

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[Video] Don’t Go Dark on Black Friday: Steps You Can Take to Mitigate the Risk of a DNS Outage

Nate Lindstrom, VP Sales Engineering, and Jason Thompson, VP Marketing, discuss why resiliency and reliability are critical to your online assets and the immediate actions you can take to help build resiliency into your digital applications.

Dedicated DNS Managed DNS

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Turnkey Dedicated DNS Data Sheet

Turnkey Dedicated DNS is a managed service designed specifically for NS1 Managed DNS customers looking for an easy way to achieve DNS redundancy.

Dedicated DNS Managed DNS

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[Video] Redundant DNS: Eliminate Your Single Point of Failure

Carl Levine, Senior Technical Evangelist, and Jonathan Lewis (CISSP), VP Product discuss how a system wide DNS failure can take your entire business offline - and what you can do to prevent it.

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Pulsar in NS1 Portal v2

In this webinar, NS1 VP of Solutions Engineering Nate Lindstrom will walk through the new Pulsar dashboard and demonstrate how you can leverage end user eyeball telemetry to optimize routing decisions in real time.

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