Ben Petro | Jul 23, 2012
With the start of the 2012 holiday shopping season just around the corner, online retailers have a lot to think about. The year-end shopping season can account for 30-40 percent of an online retailer’s annual revenue, so it’s understandable that major investment and planning are already underway for things like marketing campaigns, website optimization and perfecting the user experience. But often overlooked is the importance of DNS performance, one of the most critical components of maintaining website functionality.
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Sean Leach | Oct 04, 2011
If your network went down for five minutes, what would the impact to your business be? What if it went down for an hour? A day?
A recent survey commissioned by Verisign found that more than half of mid-sized and large enterprises with dedicated IT staff have experienced network downtime in the last year. Sixty-five percent of those downtime incidents were attributed to Domain Name System (DNS) failures and/or cyber attacks. Surprisingly, those with larger IT budgets, more website visitors and a dependency on their websites for more than 50% of their annual revenue were more likely to say they experienced downtime from a DNS failure.
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