1 category · RankedDyn
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Managed DNS | Network and edge | 0% | 15 of 78 | 25% | 16 | criticized challenger |
Movement
By model
How each model treated Dyn across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
By framing
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“Best for: Large enterprises, especially those with complex email requirements or existing Oracle investments.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Managed DNS · comparative prompt · alternative
“Enterprise-Grade | IBM NS1/Neustar UltraDNS, Dyn, Infoblox (DDI) | Complex routing, multi-cloud orchestration” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Managed DNS · scale prompt · alternative
“Enterprises may prefer Akamai or Oracle Dyn for advanced support and global infrastructure.” MiniMax M2.5 · Managed DNS · comparative prompt · alternative
“Proven anycast network, monitoring, analytics, and DDoS protection; now part of Oracle Cloud” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Managed DNS · comparative prompt · alternative
And against it
Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.
“Dyn is infamous for the October 2016 Mirai botnet attack... reputation for vulnerability against massive DDoS attacks.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Managed DNS · negative prompt · hard negative
“Avoid for mid-sized: ... NS1/Dyn (overkill/expensive for enterprise extras)” Grok 4.1 Fast · Managed DNS · paraphrase prompt · hard negative
“Historical vulnerability shown in the massive 2016 DDoS attack that took down major sites” Grok 4.1 Fast · Managed DNS · negative prompt · soft negative
“reliable but higher cost (~$100+/mo)” Grok 4.1 Fast · Managed DNS · direct prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Dyn, over the 35 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Dyn was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
What carried it into the answer
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 31 of the 35 answers that named Dyn and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
119 of the 119 domain citations in answers naming Dyn came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
dyn.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Dyn takes 0% of first choices and Cloudflare DNS takes 84%.ShowHide
Search and answers
In search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- 3,600 a month (“dyn”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 407 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 13,574 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 720 · 77 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 11,285
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This edition- First choices
- 0 across its categories
- Named in
- 35 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 31 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHide| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-11 to 2026-10 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case study | 901 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 570 | undated | Data catalogs, Object storage | ||
| Report or ebook | 53 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 37 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 33 | undated | |||
| Blog | 16 | undated | |||
| Webinar or virtual event | 16 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 13 | undated | |||
| News or press | 3 | undated |
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page dyn.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read October 5, 2026.
Names read as Dyn
Follow Dyn
An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.
Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.
The company
Dyn is its own company.ShowHide
The company
In its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- The solution for ever-changing, hard-to-remember IP addresses.
- Not stated on the pages read
- Who it is for, price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting, customers
What Dyn's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: dyn.com. A claimed page can correct any of them.
Claim this page
Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Dyn's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Dyn, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Dyn by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Dyn is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name Dyn, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.