2024 was a year of transition for IBM NS1 Connect. In this first full year as part of IBM, we continued our strong tradition of innovation and market leadership, building on the incredible expertise of our technical team to solve the application connectivity challenges of our customers.
Over the course of 2024, NS1 Connect hit quite a few significant milestones:
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We added over 2,000 new users to the NS1 Connect free developer account, providing fast, reliable DNS services for a wide range of small businesses
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HTTPS URL Redirects, allowing our customers to manage URL forwarding, DNS, and HTTPS certificates in one place
IBM continues to make significant investments in NS1 Connect. 2025 is going to be an exciting year full of new capabilities, improved functionality, and (of course) relentless delivery of the consistent service our clients rely on.
Here are a few of the projects we’re excited about for the coming year:
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Back in 2023 we rolled out DNS Insights, a feature which provides curated, in-depth data on DNS usage patterns that are useful for troubleshooting. In 2025, we’re going to move DNS Insights into our portal experience, making it more accessible so all of our enterprise customers can benefit from these rich datasets.
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Support for multi-DNS architectures has always been a key value of NS1 Connect, and in 2025 we’ll be introducing several enhancements in this area. We plan to add support for BIND-compatible zone exports. We’re also planning to release Cloud Sync, a new service which translates DNS configurations across providers.