References

1. It was April 14, 2003, bringing to and end five years of 100% DNS uptime.
2. The infamous Godaddy DNS outage of 2012 , which knocked millions of domains offline, was caused by a router misconfiguration (even though responsibility for it was initially claimed by hackers), see: http://arstechnica.com/security/ 2012/09/godaddy-outage-caused-by-router-snafu-not-ddos-attack/.
3. Domainsure is an easyDNS subsidiary.
4. It was difficult to write this section because I was always cognizant of the risk of veering into infomercial territory. I'll say it frankly: easyDNS was the first major managed DNS provider to come out and say that you need to use multiple solutions that go beyond any single provider. easyDNS was the only managed provider to build hooks and integrations into other DNS providers, and easyDNS is still the only company that provides automatic nameserver delegation...