E339 - DNS Is Old Tech (And That's Why It Still Runs the Internet)

#339: DNS has been around since the 1980s. Nobody's writing blog posts about how it changed their life. But every single thing on the internet depends on it -- including all those AI tools everyone's excited about.

Anthony Eden has been in the DNS business since the late nineties, when he was CTO of one of the first seven domain registrars after the .com deregulation. In 2010 he started DNSimple, and he did it without a dime of venture capital. Sixteen years later, his 20-person team runs a global DNS infrastructure with 14 edge nodes and 9 origin servers spread across...