[reginaldo]

History: (from http://www.luadns.com/about.html)

I was a happy user of a free DNS hosting service for many years, when this service was acquired by a competitor in august 2011, I was forced to move somewhere else.

While migrating my zone files I realized that I don't like Bind syntax files neither administering tens of domains through a web interface. I've started to experiment on how it should look a perfect DNS service for me. I've realized that I would love to store my configuration files in a Git repository and I would need some configuration language for templating (Lua).

This is how Luadns was born on October, 2011.

I don't know if this is an after the fact explanation, but either way it's a very good story about scratching your own itch.

By the way, they had me at I would love to store my configuration files in a Git repository. As soon as I have a use for this in a new project, I'll be their user. The examples are pretty cool too.

[dsl]

The dates line up. August 2011 was when Dyn bought EveryDNS and fucked everyone.

I have been helping people move off the Dyn platform and encouraging the development of efforts like this (both technically and financially) ever since.