Originally funded by DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), BIND's ongoing development was later continued by Paul Vixie in the mid-1980s while employed at Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). After leaving DEC, Vixie co-founded the Internet Software Consortium (ISC) to support internet-related software, including BIND. ISC evolved into the Internet Systems Consortium in 2004, the organization which currently maintains development and provides support for BIND.
As of January 2016, the latest version of BIND was "9.10.3-P3," with the stable version being "9.9.8-P3."
Additionally, BIG-IP DNS offered by F5 can be deployed as a fully functional DNS proxy, providing global load balancing and DNS resolution capabilities across diverse infrastructures.