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Open-Xchange awarded grant to further develop privacy and trust enhancing t...
Chris Holder on May 05, 2020
Open-Xchange is committed to a borderless internet that is open, safe and free, allowing users to protect their data and privacy. To achieve this, we develop tried and trusted, open source-based products that can...

Security Notice for PowerDNS+Postgres Users
Peter van Dijk on Aug 01, 2019
Hello, Last Tuesday we published PowerDNS Security Advisory 2019-06, which called for a schema update if you are using PostgreSQL with the Authoritative Server. We have now released updated packages for the 4.0.x...

How PowerDNS is Open Source & a successful business, or, why are we tal...
Bert Hubert on May 07, 2019
What does PowerDNS actually do? This is a good question, one we can ask about any company. How do they stay alive, what services do they deliver, who do they sell them to? For Open Source companies, the question ...

PowerDNS end of year post: Thank you!
Bert Hubert on Dec 29, 2017

PowerDNS Jobs, 4.1 roadmap, DNSSEC research
Bert Hubert on Feb 07, 2017
Hi everyone, In this post, we want to mention a few things: PowerDNS Jobs, 4.1 plans & some DNSSEC research. First, PowerDNS is growing rapidly as more and more large scale service providers displace closed D...

PowerDNS: 2016 in review
Bert Hubert on Dec 27, 2016
Hi everyone, As 2016 draws to a close, we’d like to share a few words on what has been achieved over the past year, our second year within Open-Xchange. This post will cover both our technical and commercial effo...

Some good news on powerdns.org
Bert Hubert on Oct 26, 2016
Way way back in the history of PowerDNS, we bought the full suite of domain names for our new company: powerdns.com, powerdns.net, powerdns.org. Alternate names for the company we considered at the time were ‘Sup...

An important update on new PowerDNS Products
Bert Hubert on Feb 23, 2016
Hi everybody, This is a heads-up on some announcements you will be seeing on powerdns.com relating to new PowerDNS products which (gasp) are not fully Open Source. We know this is a sensitive subject, so before w...

Open Source Support: out in the open
Bert Hubert on Jan 18, 2016
As an Open Source project, PowerDNS works hard to support its users and customers. We also love to work with our collaborators, our community, on projects inside and outside of PowerDNS. This way we’ve contribute...

2015 in numbers
Pieter Lexis on Dec 31, 2015
While the close of 2015 nears, we want to share some geeky stats over the past year. Let’s start with the company: number of new employees: 2. And the number of companies PowerDNS merged with: 1! As for the softw...