It’s hard to believe it is already 2020. It seems like just yesterday that the world was in a panic about Y2K. So what are the things you should do to prepare your website for the new year? The best way to start the decade is to focus on some basic domain and website maintenance. What should you

For the sixth year in a row, No-IP is hosting their Giving Thanks Food Drive to benefit the local community. The Giving Thanks Food Drive will benefit the Food Bank of Northern Nevada, a local non-profit organization that is dedicated to helping feed more than 91,000 neighbors in need in our community. Having access to healthy food

What is IPv6? IPv6 is an Internet addressing system that is designed to replace IPv4. It works in a very similar way as IPv4 but offers some additional benefits.  As the pool of available IPv4 addresses diminishes, there was a need to implement a protocol that offers a much larger pool of IP addresses to

First things first, let’s give a little refresher of what DNS is. DNS stands for Domain Name System DNS is like the white page directory for the Internet. You supply a name, DNS supplies a number. The name, in this case, is specifically a hostname and the number is an IP address. Without DNS you

We talk about our Anycast network a lot. With over 100 points of presence in globally redundant locations, what’s not to be proud of? What is an Anycast network and why does it even matter? Before we get into Anycast, let’s talk about a routing scheme called Unicast. Unicast is how most DNS networks work.

It was just announced this week that Oracle Dyn will be deprecating many of their DNS consumer/small business solutions soon, including the Dyn Remote Access and Dyn Pro products. We’d like to be one of the first to welcome any Oracle Dyn Customers to No-IP. We have been around since the beginning (like Oracle Dyn)

Did you know that with Plus Managed DNS you can easily create hostnames on your very own domain? Creating hostnames on a custom domain isn’t the only benefit of No-IP Plus Managed DNS, the other benefits include: – Backed by our robust Anycast Network with 100+ points of presence across the globe – Dynamic DNS with 100% uptime

It is the year 2019 and websites are crucial to almost every business. People visit thousands of websites a year, but most people don’t think about the backend of them and what it takes to keep them fast, reliable and available. Managed DNS is the backbone to websites. Most websites have one Managed DNS provider, but

There are many different ways to say, I love you! Share your favorite love meme to that special geek that means the world to you. Happy Valentine’s Day from the No-IP crew to you! <3