Dyn, Inc. was an Internet performance management company that also dealt with web application security, offering products to monitor, control, and optimize online infrastructure, and also domain registration services and email products. The company was acquired by Oracle Corporation in 2016.[1] It began operating as a global business unit of Oracle in 2017.
History
Dyn was created as a community-led student project by Tim Wilde during his undergraduate studies at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.[2][3] Eventually, Wilde, the founder, brought in Jeremy Hitchcock and Tom Daly as partners. Dyn enabled students to access lab computers and print documents remotely. The project then moved toward Domain Name System (DNS) services. The first iteration was a free donation-based dynamic DNS service known as DynDNS.[4]