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tedivm on Jan 7, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Faster, More Awesome GitHub Pages

All that shows is who they're hosting their DNS with, it has nothing to do with using a CDN. Dynect offers a CDN management tool that makes it easy to balance multiple CDNs across specific regions, so I'm not at all surprised they're using them for their DNS.

philip1209 on Jan 7, 2014 [–]

If they were using Cloudflare, as the other commenter had asked, they would be using Cloudflare nameservers

tedivm on Jan 7, 2014 | [–]

While it's true that they could be using the DNS servers, it's not true that they have to-

https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200168706-H...

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