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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 ...

Bert Hubert on Dec 29, 2017

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Bert Hubert on Nov 28, 2015

Hi everybody, In this post we’d like to update you on what has been achieved in the development of the PowerDNS 4.x products: Authoritative, Recursor and dnsdist. First, I am very proud that we managed to do a “s...

Bert Hubert on Aug 18, 2015

The recently exposed denial-of-service vulnerability in a popular DNS server implementation really highlights the benefits of software providers writing and owning the software that they deliver to internet servi...