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Oracle Dyn DNS Services Shutting Down in 2020

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Re: Oracle Dyn DNS Services Shutting Down in 2020

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Post by jssjjssj »

thrownaway954 wrote: post #46

you should mention that this is just for people on the FREE plan. If you are a paying customer (the PRO version), you are NOT affected.

That's not true. All plans are affected, and once you "upgrade" to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, you're moved to a Pay As You Go plan

>Now that this integration work is complete, Oracle is announcing the end-of-life of the DNS service in favor of our upgraded version on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Platform. On May 31, 2020, the “EOL Date”, the DNS will be retired and will no longer be available. The upgrade to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure will require some actions on your part and must be completed on or before the EOL Date.

>You can also upgrade when your current Oracle Dyn or Zenedge contract expires on [contact-end-date]. If you chose to not upgrade by the time your contract renews, your right to access and use the service will be moved to a month to month subscription governed by your current agreement until May 31, 2020. If you do not have auto-renew enabled, your service will end based on your agreement.

Re: Oracle Dyn DNS Services Shutting Down in 2020

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Post by jason_slack »

Pro services are NOT shutting down though, right? My e-mail says this:

Dear Customer,

Since Oracle acquired Dyn in 2016 and subsequently acquired Zenedge. The engineering teams have been working diligently to integrate Dyn’s products and network into the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure platform. A majority of Dyn products have now been integrated and upgraded on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

Accordingly, DynDNS Pro/Remote Access is decoupling from the Dyn brand and business unit this summer, and will remain a business unit within Oracle.

Your organization has the right to access and use DynDNS Pro/Remote Access. This product will continue to be available from Oracle without any disruption of service and no action is required on your part at this time.

Re: Oracle Dyn DNS Services Shutting Down in 2020

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Post by nybble41 »

gingerlime wrote: post #2

I was a Dyn customer since the late 90s (I think...). In the early(ish) days they offered a lifetime DNS service for something like $30, so I jumped on the opportunity. I don't think there was much else around at the time... All things considered, I managed to get a pretty good deal out of it. Can't really complain, can I? Anyone knows a good alternative with simple DDNS updaters?

> Anyone knows a good alternative with simple DDNS updaters?

Personally I just use Amazon's Route 53 and a ~150 line shell script wrapping awscli[1] to update the records. It's not ddclient but it gets the job done. Cost averages about $1.51/mo. for the DNS service and annual domain renewal—that's for a $12/yr. .info domain; other TLDs will vary. The DNS service pricing depends on the traffic, but at only $0.01 per 25,000 queries it's probably not a significant factor for most of the sites that would benefit from dynamic DNS.

[1] http://willwarren.com/2014/07/03/roll-dynamic-dns-service-us...

Re: Oracle Dyn DNS Services Shutting Down in 2020

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Post by david-given »

jpollock wrote: post #10

As a lesson to anyone else hoping to do a shutdown with a migration to a different service with your company. If you are going to treat me the same as any new subscriber, where I have to re-signup, re-add my payment method, export my settings and then import them again, you're asking me to buy all over again. If you ask me to buy, then I get will reevaluate the relationship, and if it's just as easy to migrate to ano…

Don't forget the five minute wait to update your cookie preferences before you can interact with their website. That's a nice usability touch.

Re: Oracle Dyn DNS Services Shutting Down in 2020

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Post by david-given »

frobware wrote: post #50
jpollock wrote: post #10

As a lesson to anyone else hoping to do a shutdown with a migration to a different service with your company. If you are going to treat me the same as any new subscriber, where I have to re-signup, re-add my payment method, export my settings and then import them again, you're asking me to buy all over again. If you ask me to buy, then I get will reevaluate the relationship, and if it's just as easy to migrate to ano…

I just reevaluated. I moved to another supplier (hello cloudflare). I suspect I have been a customer for more than 15 years. Possibly even longer. Way longer. 2 decades? I was a VIP member too - whatever "cred" that holds. Account now closed.

I've been using them since at least 2002 --- but that was a service migration at their end, so the actual time would be longer than that.

I hear gandi.net's DNS is good.

Re: Oracle Dyn DNS Services Shutting Down in 2020

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Post by kerouanton »

I didn't renew my Dyn subscrition a few months ago, considering they had increased their pricing model and offered nothing new. And being owned by "evil" Oracle didn't help.

Today it's relatively easy to build a self-hosted dynamic DNS equivalent, e.g. https://github.com/dprandzioch/docker-ddns so I'm in the process of solving the issue like this.

Re: Oracle Dyn DNS Services Shutting Down in 2020

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Post by apple4ever »

jssjjssj wrote: post #51
thrownaway954 wrote: post #46

you should mention that this is just for people on the FREE plan. If you are a paying customer (the PRO version), you are NOT affected.

That's not true. All plans are affected, and once you "upgrade" to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, you're moved to a Pay As You Go plan >Now that this integration work is complete, Oracle is announcing the end-of-life of the DNS service in favor of our upgraded version on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Platform. On May 31, 2020, the “EOL Date”, the DNS will be retired and will no longer be available. The upgrade to Ora…

Correct. I've been paying $12/month for the Managed DNS service.
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