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Re:Faster, More Awesome GitHub Pages by philip1209 on Tuesday January 07, 2014 @02:25PM (#7019255)
Doesn't look like it:

    dig +short NS github.io
    ns2.p16.dynect.net.
    ns4.p16.dynect.net.
    ns1.p16.dynect.net.
    ns3.p16.dynect.net.
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Re:Faster, More Awesome GitHub Pages by dangrossman on Tuesday January 07, 2014 @02:27PM (#7019272)
You need to hit a subdomain of github.io (any subdomain) to see the CDN; that's where user pages live.
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Re:Faster, More Awesome GitHub Pages by tedivm on Tuesday January 07, 2014 @02:57PM (#7019491)
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.
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Re:Faster, More Awesome GitHub Pages by philip1209 on Tuesday January 07, 2014 @03:44PM (#7019760)
If they were using Cloudflare, as the other commenter had asked, they would be using Cloudflare nameservers
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Re:Faster, More Awesome GitHub Pages by tedivm on Tuesday January 07, 2014 @04:07PM (#7019921)
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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