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Internet Systems Consortium is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) entity. We do not have a wealthy foundation, we support our work by soliciting donations and by selling technical support subscriptions for our software. Our software can be downloaded for free, however, we employ some very hardworking and dedicated engineers and they need to pay their rent. We encourage you to consider supporting and donating to ISC, and further promoting the mission of giving the world a more open and robust Internet. A few of the initiatives we plan for 2016, that you could help support, include:

Development and release of BIND 9.11, with significant new features
BIND maintenance releases on 9.9 and 9.10 trains
DHCP maintenance releases (4.3.4, 4.1-ESV-R13) and our last planned feature train, 4.4)
Kea DHCP release 1.1 (we released 1.0 in the last week of 2015)
New and updated Knowledgebase articles on BIND and DHCP
Management and operation of F-root nodes around the world

Ways to Support ISC:

Individual donation

We are grateful for your donations in any amount. We accept via PayPal (use the big blue button below, credit card (click on ‘Shop‘ in the top-most menu to go to our web store), or of course, we take checks, purchase orders and wire transfers.
Examples of how your donation could be used:

$25 answers a user question on a public mailing list
$40 supports research into a bug report
$400 pays a senior software engineer to work on open source for a day
$2500 will send an engineer to an IETF meeting, to contribute to the evolution of open standards

If you make a donation you will receive an email from us acknowledging the donation. The button below takes you to PayPal, where you can enter any amount that you wish to contribute.

Organizational support

We accept donations from organizations. You can mail us a check (see ‘Contact ISC’ for our mailing address). If your organization would prefer to donate via purchase order, please contact us at [email protected] and someone will get back to you promptly.
Alternatively, perhaps you can ask your employer to subscribe to our software. Many of the organizations who pay for support subscriptions do so primarily in order to support our work in maintaining and enhancing our open source software, but also want to receive advance notification of security vulnerabilities. This is a way you can support our work, but also derive a special benefit for your organization.
Sponsored development. Our fundraising from support subscriptions and donations is generally not enough to fund development of new projects. We have had some generous sponsors in the past who have funded major projects, such as the development of the Kea DHCP server, or individual software features. If your organization has an interest in a significant new feature or new project, contact us to discuss sponsorship.

If you are using our software and share in our Open Source vision, please consider making a donation today.

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Annual Reports: 2013, 2014.

2016 Donors

Organizations

2015 Donors

Individuals

John Allen

Torfinn Ingolfsen

Jeremy Pougnet

BTA.bankingtrust

Olaf Menzel

Stefanos Charchalakis

Mark Zachlod

Mike Reinstein – for NTP

Jon Seidel – for NTP

Michael Machado

DzFlexibility – for NTP

Loubar Billet

Joey Looney

James Popovich

Jeremy Towers – for NTP

Richard Doty

Sean Fagan

Leo Bicknell

Stephen Arntzen

Clifford Bedore

Comcast

THANK YOU for supporting Open Source!