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title: "Our efforts to acquire Zerigo have fallen through…."
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post_id: "14438"
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published: "2017-03-14T14:05:43+00:00"
modified: "2017-03-14T14:05:43+00:00"
author: "Mark E. Jeftovic"
categories:
  - "Industry Watch"
tags:
  - "geodns"
  - "Zerigo"
  - "Zoneedit"
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For some time I suspected that DNS provider Zerigo was no longer a priority for their parent company after they were acquired by VOIP provider (and easyDNS client) [8×8](http://www.8x8.com) back in 2011. This sort of thing happens all the time, company gets acquired, parent switches direction, some of the acquisitions get left out in the cold. It happened to [Zoneedit](https://www.zoneedit.com) (more than once) until we picked them up in 2014 and now keep it running as a standalone unit.

We saw the opportunity to do something similar with Zerigo. I tracked down Thomas Morgan, the original Zerigo founder, who generously gave me his time to outline the backstory behind Zerigo’s sale to 8×8, what the original rationale was and what happened (TL,DR – new 8×8 CEO switched directions and focus).

He also provided me with a senior level contact there and we began a conversation in late 2016 around the possibility of easyDNS acquiring Zerigo. It never got to the stage where we even put numbers around it but there *seemed* to be receptivity to the idea. In early 2017 we received word that the company was too busy to consider this at the moment and could we revisit the issue in mid-year?

This morning word began trickling in that 8×8 has[ announced Zerigo end-of-life](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13863592) for April 30, 2017, so it seems that’s the end of *that* idea.

So what now for Zerigo users?
-----------------------------

If you’re looking for a place to land now, we’ve setup a code “zerigo” on our Zoneedit unit ([follow this link](https://www.zoneedit.com/?V=zerigo)) and create an account and you’ll get 10 free zones while we figure this out. Zoneedit is non-anycast (for now), if you use the zerigo vcode link above then you can delegate to:

`<br></br>dns1.zoneedit.com<br></br>dns2.zoneedit.com<br></br>dns3.zoneedit.com<br></br>dns4.zoneedit.com<br></br>`

If you were using Zerigo’s **geoDNS** implementation and need that, then go with easyDNS, where we’ve been running our new geoDNS implementation for [www.php.net](https://www.whatsmydns.net/?utm_source=whatsmydns.com&utm_medium=redirect#A/www.php.net) for quite some time. GeoDNS bundles with the [Enterprise DNS service level](https://www.easydns.com/dns/enterprise).