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They're widely used because they were one of the few providers of geo-aware DNS service for a long time. (These days there are other, cheaper options, including Amazon Route53.)

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It's pretty wild that AWS is having impacts for the dyn outage given the shoutout to Route53. Wonder what they know that they don't?

Not sure if people are confusing Amazon with AWS in this case.

$ dig +short ns amazon.com

ns1.p31.dynect.net. pdns1.ultradns.net. ns4.p31.dynect.net. pdns6.ultradns.co.uk. ns3.p31.dynect.net. ns2.p31.dynect.net.

same seems to be the case for parts of AWS, comment below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12760165

Other option would have been Akamai's geo-aware DNS that has been available for a long time.

If anyone else is like me they assume Akamai = Expensive.

and they would be right.

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