No-IP

No-IP by Vitalwerks Internet Solutions, LLC.

Logo
Type	LLC.
Industry	DNS and Hosting
Founded	1999 Vitalwerks LLC
Headquarters	Reno, Nevada
Products	Dynamic and managed DNS Domain name registration E-mail services Server monitoring SSL certificates URL redirection
Website	No-IP.com

Vitalwerks LLC is the parent company of No-IP which is a Dynamic DNS provider for paid and free services. No-IP offers DNS services, email, network monitoring and SSL certificates. Email services include POP3 email, outbound SMTP email, backup mail services and mail reflection and filtering.

History

No-IP was launched in October 1999 offering free Dynamic DNS and URL redirection. Users were able to create a sub-domain under a few domains owned by No-IP. In May 2000, Vitalwerks Internet Solutions, LLC was formed as the parent company of No-IP. In January 2001 No-IP began offering paid managed DNS services which allowed users to set up dynamic DNS using their own domain name. Later that year they began offering email services to complement their DNS product. With growing popularity, No-IP has been featured in magazines such as PC magazine^[1] and Mac User^[2] and also a segment on Tech TV.^[3] They began reselling domain names in 2002 and in 2006 became an ICANN accredited registrar.

Technology and Services

No-IP's core product is Dynamic DNS services ("DDNS"). The basic dynamic DNS services using a domain owned by No-IP are free to use as long as the account remains active. An upgraded service to use your own domain name will cost about $25 for the year. Dynamic IP addresses are common on residential cable or DSL broadband accounts. The free service allows users to setup between one and five host names on a domain name provided by No-IP. The host name will then resolve to the current IP address of that user's computer. A software client is also provided by No-IP for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux that can be run on the computer that has the dynamic address. No-IP also provides other DNS, e-mail, and Network Monitoring services.

Dynamic DNS API

Dynamic DNS a host name such as mysite.no-ip.com is linked up to the user's dynamic IP address. Whenever the IP changes a dynamic DNS client will send an update to No-IP with the current IP address and then No-IP propagates the DNS change to the Internet within seconds.^{[citation needed]}

To facilitate IP address updates, No-IP has an open protocol that allows software developers and hardware manufacturers to communicate via HTTP to notify them of an IP address change.

Router manufacturers such as DLink,^[4] Sonicwall,^[5] SMC,^[6] and Toshiba^[7] have built in support for No-IP's Dynamic DNS protocol.

Some third party firmware, such as DD-WRT, also include No-IP in their selection of DDNS providers for routers that are compatible and do not have it from the manufacturer.

Notes and references

1. ^ Dealing with Dynamic IP Addresses - Expert Help by PC Magazine
2. ^ MacUser - Mac News, Reviews and Know-How
3. ^ http://www.no-ip.com/media/tech-tv-sm.mpg
4. ^ Setting up D-LINK Routers with No-IP Dynamic DNS
5. ^ SonicWALL Help
6. ^ http://www.smc.com/files/AP/DS_BR18VPN_EN.pdf
7. ^ Using A Toshiba Security Camera systems with No-IP

External links

• No-IP.com website