Now that most of the world is shut down and many people are without an income, things can get interesting. There are often spikes in crime during economic downturns. Just last week, one of my co-workers had someone break into his garage in the middle of the night while he and his family were asleep.
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Working From Home? Six Easy Steps to Get Started with Remote Access
Working From Home? Six Easy Steps to Get Started with Remote Access Now that the entire world is practicing social distancing, working from home has gone from a luxury to a necessity. Companies across the globe have taken the leap to empower their workforce to work from home to help reduce the spread of COVID-19.
Continue ReadingA Note From Our CEO – COVID-19 and No-IP
At No-IP, our hearts go out to everyone affected by the coronavirus (COVID–19) pandemic, and we’re committed to doing everything we can to ensure the safety of our employees and our community.It is because of this that we have decided it is best if our team works from home so we can do our part
Continue Reading2019 Year End Wrap-Up
It is hard to believe that 2019 is already over. How are we in a new decade already? 2019 was a busy year for the No-IP team. We had lots of fun and celebrated many successes this year. Learn about everything that No-IP accomplished. Official Subscription Launch Last year, No-IP partnered with an industry-leading subscription management
Continue ReadingWebsite Maintenance for the New Decade
It’s hard to believe it is already 2020. It seems like just yesterday that the world was in a panic about Y2K. So what are the things you should do to prepare your website for the new year? The best way to start the decade is to focus on some basic domain and website maintenance. What should you
Continue ReadingNo-IP Hosts 6th Annual Giving Thanks Food Drive
For the sixth year in a row, No-IP is hosting their Giving Thanks Food Drive to benefit the local community. The Giving Thanks Food Drive will benefit the Food Bank of Northern Nevada, a local non-profit organization that is dedicated to helping feed more than 91,000 neighbors in need in our community. Having access to healthy food
Continue ReadingNo-IP Now Offers IPv6 Dynamic DNS
What is IPv6? IPv6 is an Internet addressing system that is designed to replace IPv4. It works in a very similar way as IPv4 but offers some additional benefits. As the pool of available IPv4 addresses diminishes, there was a need to implement a protocol that offers a much larger pool of IP addresses to
Continue ReadingDoH: The Pros and Cons of DNS Over HTTPS
First things first, let’s give a little refresher of what DNS is. DNS stands for Domain Name System DNS is like the white page directory for the Internet. You supply a name, DNS supplies a number. The name, in this case, is specifically a hostname and the number is an IP address. Without DNS you
Continue ReadingAnycast Networks: What Are They and Why Do They Even Matter?
We talk about our Anycast network a lot. With over 100 points of presence in globally redundant locations, what’s not to be proud of? What is an Anycast network and why does it even matter? Before we get into Anycast, let’s talk about a routing scheme called Unicast. Unicast is how most DNS networks work.
Continue ReadingSearching For a New Dynamic DNS Provider? Make the Switch to No-IP Dynamic DNS
It was just announced this week that Oracle Dyn will be deprecating many of their DNS consumer/small business solutions soon, including the Dyn Remote Access and Dyn Pro products. We’d like to be one of the first to welcome any Oracle Dyn Customers to No-IP. We have been around since the beginning (like Oracle Dyn)
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