WELCOME TO CONSTELLIX DNS 101

A Revolutionary Traffic Management Suite of

Services.

Our Agenda for Today

About Constellix

Why is there Constellix?

Introduction

Constellix TMS

Constellix Sonar

Constellix Name Servers

Features

Final word and Q&A

Constellix DNS

Global Traffic Director

FAQs

You Asked, We Listened, We Delivered!

Here at DNS Made Easy, we ask our clients to send us feedback /

suggestions on how we can improve our services.

Over 100,000 clients have used DNS Made Easy

Thousands of requests have been submitted to DNS Made Easy

We have incorporated many of those requests into DNS Made Easy. Features

that did not fit into the DNS Made Easy services were put into Constellix.

You Asked, We Listened, We Delivered!

DNS Made Easy potential clients

Features our competitors have

Features they would like to see

Industry review of services being offered

Administrators of DNS Made Easy

Have seen the industry change over the past 13 years

Prediction on what users expect to see in the future

The feature set behind Constellix DNS was

conceptualized and architected from the vision

of the same experts that created DNS Made Easy.

DNS Made Easy has become the fastest performing and most reliable IP

Anycast DNS service in the world.

Thousands of organizations and companies rely on DNS Made Easy for superior

service and reliability.

DNS Made Easy outperforms services 100 times the price that claim to be

optimized for speed.

DNS Made Easy system administrators, support technicians, and network

architects worked directly with software development teams from Tiggee LLC.

Revolutionize customized DNS features to meet the performance and demands

of today and beyond. 

Constellix Development

DNS RFCs are old, have not changed with the times. Clients require solutions that are outside the scope of an RFC compliant DNS service.

https://www.isc.org/community/rfcs/dns/

http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/dns-rfcs.html

Use the power and performance of the DNS Made Easy network with the features that cloud-computing based services require today.

Chance to rebrand the name. The word “Easy” does not convey an enterprise image to some users.

In the past 5 years the increase in new features has been increasing (cloud computing, new traffic demands, etc.)

New frontier of DNS traffic management to improve end-user experience. Faster, more unique and more features.

Why is there Constellix?

The first look beta launch is only available to DNS Made

Easy clients.

Constellix Sonar, which launched in 2014, was the first part of revolutionary

full-traffic management suite of services designed to ensure optimized

performance for end users.

Constellix TMS(Traffic Management Suite)

Constellix DNS launched in Q1 2015, the next service that will be part of

Constellix traffic management suite.

Constellix Sonar

The CONSTELLIX SONAR system provides analysis of a site’s performance and

helps pinpoint issues, outages and regions for improvement.

Constellix DNSCONSTELLIX DNS (launched Q1 2015) is the next

piece of the traffic management suite.

San Jose, CA

New York, NY

Frankfurt, GE

Hongkong, HK

Constellix NetworkConstellix DNS name servers currently in 5 POPs and will expand to the full DNS Made Easy network (and beyond) in the months ahead.

Just like DNS Made Easy, Constellix will move into markets that will maximize our client’s ROI.

Sydney, AU

Coming soon to these locations:

• Ashburn, VA

• Chicago, IL

• Miami, FL

• Seattle, WA

• Reston, VA

• London, UK

• Dallas, TX

• Los Angeles, CA

• Tokyo, JP (next to launch)

• Sao Paulo, BZ (proposed)

• Amsterdam, NL (proposed)

Easy Domain and Record Management

❖ Not just a GUI, but a GGUI – Great Graphical User Interface

❖ Templates

❖ Easy import and exports

❖ Version Control

❖ REST API

Features of Constellix

Weighted Round Robin of A, AAAA, and CNAME Records

❖ IP to location lookup done in real time.❖ Uses EDNS client subnet to provide the most accurate

response for the end user.

• Standard GeoIP services use the IP of the resolver, not the actually end user requesting the information.

❖ GeoFilter

• Specify filter rules that allow users to define distinct query responses based on region or network.

• Ability to firewall and block users at the DNS level.

❖ GeoProximity

• Provide location of response and Constellix DNS services will automatically figure out which location should be used.

Geo IP Services

Global Traffic Director (GTD) Originally designed for DNS Made Easy, the company is

extending this great functionality to Constellix. 

This will allow clients to specify unique zone

configurations on particular regions of the world

providing the highest level of accuracy for custom DNS

answers.

GTD configurations applied to any DNS record type.

The GTD services offered by DNS Made Easy are the

most accurate geo-DNS service available to users in

the world today.

Features of ConstellixA list of features sets Constellix DNS apart and proves it is the most advanced DNS solution of its kind.

Some of these features include:

GeoIP Services with GTD

❖ Most precise level of GeoDNS available in the

world. Uniquely create GeoIP Filters rules and

GeoProximity rules on specific name servers in a

GTD region. Allow for the errors in GeoIP to be

fixed with the powerful GTD service.

Internal Security– Help administrators stop abusive hosts and lookups

quicker

– Better prevention of DDoS attacks

Propagation of Record Integrity– Developed an in-house propagation system to accurately

synchronize hundreds of name servers worldwide

Real time statistics, record reporting / alerting (GUI coming soon)*

Real time record logging*

More Features of Constellix

*Planning to come to DNS Made Easy

Integration with Sonar

– Sonar integration with other monitoring services

ANAME and AAAAName

HTTP Redirection

Records

Release Date:Q2 2015

Upcoming Features of Constellix Beta 2

Sub-User Functionality

– Increased Security Control

Bulk Domain and Record

Management

Frequently Asked Questions

1. What is happening with DNS Made Easy?

2. What will the pricing be for Constellix?– Always with goal of maximum ROI.

– Planned usage based model on a daily basis. Pay for what you use. No month commitment, no commitments with no long term contracts.

– First 25 domains (~ $0.45 per month per domain)

– After 25 domains (~ $0.10 per month per domain)

– Charges for traffic, advanced features, etc.

3. Migration options to / from DNS Made Easy

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Finally…

Notify us in the feedback from the webinar

• Need some of these features? Start using Constellix today!

• Need something that Constellix does not have? Let us know!

Open a feature request ticket