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Oracle Dyn Managed DNS vs. Verisign Managed DNS

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    Oracle Dyn Managed DNS

    Score8.8 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Oracle Dyn DNS (domain name system) is an infrastructure-as-a-service that is touted by Oracle Dyne as one of the highest performance global networks existent. It is available as a managed DNS with secondary DNS available for more reliable business continuity on higher service tiers.N/A

    Verisign Managed DNS

    N/AN/AVirisign offers a range of DNS services, including their Managed DNS featuring traffic management, DDoS resilience, primary and secondary hosting, zone restore, and a suite of security tools.N/A
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    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    User Ratings
    Oracle Dyn Managed DNSVerisign Managed DNS
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.5
    (103 ratings)
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    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
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    Usability
    8.6
    (101 ratings)
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    Support Rating
    8.6
    (99 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
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    Likelihood to Recommend
    Oracle
    Oracle managed DNS becomes very heavy when there is an ample amount of DNS being managed. However, the DNS creation and updating takes very less time to propagate and is very easy to use. So, for an organization, where there is a modest amount of DNS to manage, it works very well and gives a splendid experience. So, considering the complexity of managing the DNS for an IT company Oracle Dyn managed DNS is the best option to opt.
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    Verisign
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    Pros
    Oracle
    • The portal management is very easy to use in comparison to other companies for DNS management.
    • The have expert mode that allows for multiple edits on records and allows you to make notes for each edit on a zone.
    • The have TTLs that are as low as 30 seconds.
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    Verisign
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    Cons
    Oracle
    • Simpler billing interface
    • More responsive sales team to provide relevant QBRs to ensure proper and best practice use of the product/platform
    • Integration of the Dyn ECT Managed DNS with Dyn Domain Registration would be a nice feature as currently I have to manage two consoles and billing accounts.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Oracle
    It does exactly what we need, its fast, secure and reliable.
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    Usability
    Oracle
    This is the only real gripe we have with Dyn; their web-UI can be remarkably painful to use. In the "simple" editor, DNS records are arranged in a kind of "node" view, where each record is a node and any records of the same name or longer (i.e. all records called "record.example.com" or "other.record.example.com") fall under it. This creates an odd sort of hierarchical view that's not really representative of the zone file. The "expert" editor doesn't have an actual delete button, just a checkbox. If you want to update conflicting record types (for example, replacing an A record with a CNAME) you have to check the box for the record being deleted, save changes, create the new record, save changes, and finally publish changes. Dyn uses a publish model for changes, where all changes you make are staged and can be reverted or published all at once. This is fine, except that the publish/revert dialog is in a different page. This is nice when you have many changes, but very annoying when you're changing just one or two records across multiple zones. These are relatively minor issues in an otherwise good platform; annoyances more than deal breakers.
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    Support Rating
    Oracle
    The support team at Dyn has always been very helpful and have tried to answer our questions to the best of their knowledge. We have never had any issues from support tickets and they are often resolved in a few hours
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    Verisign
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    Alternatives Considered
    Oracle
    We use both Oracle Dyn Managed DNS and Amazon Route 53. We like having our main DNS provider outside our cloud provider in case there's an issue with Amazon and we need to point things somewhere else temporarily. But for all the smaller stuff and internal stuff, we use Route 53 successfully.
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    Verisign
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    Return on Investment
    Oracle
    • For the law firm its being used for, it keeps their remote users working. For law firms, time is money, usually every 15 minutes lost can be a big deal to them.
    • Sometimes it has switched when its not supposed to, and causes downtime. No real way to inform users when the switch is happening, it would be great to have an email alert we can not only send to ourselves but a notification to primary and technical partners in the firm so they don't have to yell at us like something is broken, instead they are aware it had to change.
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    Verisign
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