DNS is infrastructure. It’s time to manage it that way.

Attackers aren’t always the reason for DNS failures — they can often be something much more routine. For example, the failure could result from regular domain management operations at the registrar level, as one Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 2025 DNS global outage last summer that lasted for 62 minutes. It occurred not because of a cyberattack, but a misconfiguration in their systems.  Anthony Eden, founder and CEO of DNSimple Beyond routing traffic, domains carry business value, intellectual property, and brand identity for enterprises, which is why those enterprises spend large sums on them. Those domains breathe inside the vendor dashboard — whether a registrar’s or a DNS host — and multiple stakeholders manage them manually, often leaving no record of who changed what.  When asked about the management gap, DNSimple — a developer-focused domain management automation and DNS hosting company — tells The New Stack, “Most engineers who are working at companies are already required to use tools like Terraform or Ansible to control all of their other services. So that means deploying servers and managing storage Continue reading