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I'm now looking for recommendations for another DNS provider. USA or Europe preferred. Anyone have any?

alex_hitchins 10y ago
I too am looking for alternatives. I moved to Dyn from ZoneEdit, I may look to go back. Has anyone favourable experience with Route53?
- module0000 10y ago
  > Has anyone favourable experience with Route53? Yes, using it commercially(for work) and for personal domains. The pricing is incredibly low, and I haven't had an outage/hiccup since it launched.
  - alex_hitchins 10y ago
    Thanks, I might give this a go with a 'spare' domain to investigate it more.
- jlgaddis 10y ago
  Ugh, I definitely wouldn't recommend going back to ZoneEdit (now "easyDNS").
  - alex_hitchins 10y ago
    I didn't know they were bought out as well. Many years ago I ran my own DNS, perhaps I should look at doing it again.
raesene6 10y ago
FWIW I like dnsimple . I've got domains on both services and I'll be moving my last stuff off dyn and onto dnsimple after this, no desire to be a customer of Oracle's.
XorNot 10y ago
namecheap work well for me.
- kogepathic 10y ago
  We're in the process of migrating away from Namecheap. They've been having DNS issues lately, as recently as last week (16 November) their entire DNS infrastructure was unexpectedly down for several hours. [0] Took all our sites offline. > $ host mydomain.com dns1.name-services.com > ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached They're cheap, but have been experiencing some real reliability issues as of late. Other registrars offer pretty similar pricing and don't suffer from as frequent outages. We were hardly the only people affected. Check their Twitter[1] for other people complaining of DNS outages. Also, their new admin portal redesign sucks. Tons of white space and managing domains now requires many more clicks than it did before. Their zone management interface also frequently fails to update the zone. Gandi's zone management interface is a million times better. [0] http://status.namecheap.com/archives/28960 http://status.namecheap.com/archives/28960 [1] https://twitter.com/namecheap https://twitter.com/namecheap
  - fomojola 10y ago
    Hate to pile on, but the admin portal redesign was incredibly bad. So many things that were logically organized together in the old design are now spread across N > 3 pages that are no longer linked from one to another. Hate to impute motives but after I found that I "accidentally" bought the same product multiple times because I simply couldn't trivially figure out WHAT I'd bought and hadn't yet configured I realized it was probably a revenue maximization exercise. Still use them because I like their service, but very dark.
jdwithit 10y ago
We balance our domains across Dyn and UltraDNS. No complaints about UltraDNS so far. Has just worked, and they have a decent REST API which is nice (as does Dyn).
- LinuxBender 10y ago
  We were on UltraDNS for a few years. They started receiving nearly quarterly DDoS attacks and then tried to try to sell us DDoS scrubbing services. From there we moved to Dyn and have been happy. The DDoS that took out Dyn for a while would have take any single provider offline.
  - jdwithit 10y ago
    Yeah, definitely. The bigger takeaway is probably that you really want to have more than one DNS provider. Assuming whatever you're running is important enough to justify the cost. If DNS ain't happy, ain't nobody happy ;)
    - LinuxBender 10y ago
      I agree entirely.
zippergz 10y ago
I use a combination of DNS Made Easy and Route 53. Both have worked well for me.
- stevekemp 10y ago
  This is a good thing to do. Rather than host all your DNS records at any one provider, split them across two. That allows you to keep on running even if your provider suffers a DDos, or outage. (As Dyn famously did recently.)
problems 10y ago
CloudFlare. It's free and bulletproof, even if you don't use their protective reverse proxy you can use their DNS service for free and it has a dynamic updating API. Unlike other providers (looking at you Amazon with your handling of Wikileaks) they've also proven themselves willing to stand up for their customers, even free ones legally.
- brianwawok 10y ago
  Cloudflare is not bulletproof. Had several times where cloudflare proxy plus my Nginx server got stuck in infinite loops making everything time out. No logical reason why. Switched to cloudCDN and 0 problems since.
  - problems 10y ago
    Sounds like your app was doing something weird as I've not had any issues using a similar setup. What's this cloudCDN thing? Can't find it on Google.
    - brianwawok 10y ago
      https://cloud.google.com/cdn/docs/ https://cloud.google.com/cdn/docs/ Check a checkbox, and your static stuff gets CDNed. Seems a lot better than letting another service control you, perhaps put up CAPATCHAs, perhaps mess up your networking, etc.
      - problems 10y ago
        > Seems a lot better than letting another service control you, perhaps put up CAPATCHAs, perhaps mess up your networking, etc. Disabling the CAPTCHAs is trivial, just set the security features to low or off. This does basically the same thing in terms of "mess up your networking" though. All your traffic is just routed through Google instead of CloudFlare. No real difference there. You can also kick the CF security up if you get attacked. Google's will however cost you a crapload if someone decides to run even a fairly primitive layer 7 attack against you. So you better just hope you don't get hit, unless I'm missing something excluding attack bandwidth?
tyingq 10y ago
Some ideas: Google's Cloud DNS: https://cloud.google.com/dns/pricing https://cloud.google.com/dns/pricing Route 53: https://aws.amazon.com/route53/ https://aws.amazon.com/route53/ Dns Made Easy: http://www.dnsmadeeasy.com/ http://www.dnsmadeeasy.com/ Dnsperf.com is also a good resource to compare speed and reliability of DNS providers.
- verandaguy 10y ago
  I've been using Route53 for the last 3 years, and I'll vouch for it. It's pretty sweet -- the UI is clear, but allows for a decent amount of configuration, and it's reliable. It also integrates with major registrars (GANDI's a big one) and lets you manage domain ownership via an AWS account -- and personally, I prefer unified bills.
  - cpks 10y ago
    I'll anti-vouch for Route53 for personal use. I use AWS pretty broadly, but with something like DNS, I like having a little bit more support if things go wrong. Amazon won't do much without a $upport contract. It's fine for business use with a support contract.
  - stevekemp 10y ago
    Route53 is awesome. I personally wrap it in git - https://dns-api.com/ https://dns-api.com/ - and remove the per-query pricing to provide stability.
- tracker1 10y ago
  Not sure if it's the same service, but if you're using Google as your registrar, DNS seems to be included... would be surprised if it wasn't the same infrastructure. I've heard good things about AWS Route53 as well.
  - pram 10y ago
    Google support confirmed that their Domains DNS is the same infra as the Cloud DNS
larrysalibra 10y ago
NYC-based NS1: https://ns1.com https://ns1.com
- stevekemp 10y ago
  Ironically they're now down - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13019858 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13019858

I too am looking for alternatives. I moved to Dyn from ZoneEdit, I may look to go back. Has anyone favourable experience with Route53?

module0000 10y ago
> Has anyone favourable experience with Route53? Yes, using it commercially(for work) and for personal domains. The pricing is incredibly low, and I haven't had an outage/hiccup since it launched.
- alex_hitchins 10y ago
  Thanks, I might give this a go with a 'spare' domain to investigate it more.
jlgaddis 10y ago
Ugh, I definitely wouldn't recommend going back to ZoneEdit (now "easyDNS").
- alex_hitchins 10y ago
  I didn't know they were bought out as well. Many years ago I ran my own DNS, perhaps I should look at doing it again.

raesene6 10y ago

FWIW I like dnsimple . I've got domains on both services and I'll be moving my last stuff off dyn and onto dnsimple after this, no desire to be a customer of Oracle's.

XorNot 10y ago

namecheap work well for me.

kogepathic 10y ago
We're in the process of migrating away from Namecheap. They've been having DNS issues lately, as recently as last week (16 November) their entire DNS infrastructure was unexpectedly down for several hours. [0] Took all our sites offline. > $ host mydomain.com dns1.name-services.com > ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached They're cheap, but have been experiencing some real reliability issues as of late. Other registrars offer pretty similar pricing and don't suffer from as frequent outages. We were hardly the only people affected. Check their Twitter[1] for other people complaining of DNS outages. Also, their new admin portal redesign sucks. Tons of white space and managing domains now requires many more clicks than it did before. Their zone management interface also frequently fails to update the zone. Gandi's zone management interface is a million times better. [0] http://status.namecheap.com/archives/28960 http://status.namecheap.com/archives/28960 [1] https://twitter.com/namecheap https://twitter.com/namecheap
- fomojola 10y ago
  Hate to pile on, but the admin portal redesign was incredibly bad. So many things that were logically organized together in the old design are now spread across N > 3 pages that are no longer linked from one to another. Hate to impute motives but after I found that I "accidentally" bought the same product multiple times because I simply couldn't trivially figure out WHAT I'd bought and hadn't yet configured I realized it was probably a revenue maximization exercise. Still use them because I like their service, but very dark.

jdwithit 10y ago

We balance our domains across Dyn and UltraDNS. No complaints about UltraDNS so far. Has just worked, and they have a decent REST API which is nice (as does Dyn).

LinuxBender 10y ago
We were on UltraDNS for a few years. They started receiving nearly quarterly DDoS attacks and then tried to try to sell us DDoS scrubbing services. From there we moved to Dyn and have been happy. The DDoS that took out Dyn for a while would have take any single provider offline.
- jdwithit 10y ago
  Yeah, definitely. The bigger takeaway is probably that you really want to have more than one DNS provider. Assuming whatever you're running is important enough to justify the cost. If DNS ain't happy, ain't nobody happy ;)
  - LinuxBender 10y ago
    I agree entirely.

zippergz 10y ago

I use a combination of DNS Made Easy and Route 53. Both have worked well for me.

stevekemp 10y ago
This is a good thing to do. Rather than host all your DNS records at any one provider, split them across two. That allows you to keep on running even if your provider suffers a DDos, or outage. (As Dyn famously did recently.)

problems 10y ago

CloudFlare. It's free and bulletproof, even if you don't use their protective reverse proxy you can use their DNS service for free and it has a dynamic updating API. Unlike other providers (looking at you Amazon with your handling of Wikileaks) they've also proven themselves willing to stand up for their customers, even free ones legally.

brianwawok 10y ago
Cloudflare is not bulletproof. Had several times where cloudflare proxy plus my Nginx server got stuck in infinite loops making everything time out. No logical reason why. Switched to cloudCDN and 0 problems since.
- problems 10y ago
  Sounds like your app was doing something weird as I've not had any issues using a similar setup. What's this cloudCDN thing? Can't find it on Google.
  - brianwawok 10y ago
    https://cloud.google.com/cdn/docs/ https://cloud.google.com/cdn/docs/ Check a checkbox, and your static stuff gets CDNed. Seems a lot better than letting another service control you, perhaps put up CAPATCHAs, perhaps mess up your networking, etc.
    - problems 10y ago
      > Seems a lot better than letting another service control you, perhaps put up CAPATCHAs, perhaps mess up your networking, etc. Disabling the CAPTCHAs is trivial, just set the security features to low or off. This does basically the same thing in terms of "mess up your networking" though. All your traffic is just routed through Google instead of CloudFlare. No real difference there. You can also kick the CF security up if you get attacked. Google's will however cost you a crapload if someone decides to run even a fairly primitive layer 7 attack against you. So you better just hope you don't get hit, unless I'm missing something excluding attack bandwidth?

tyingq 10y ago

Some ideas: Google's Cloud DNS: https://cloud.google.com/dns/pricing https://cloud.google.com/dns/pricing Route 53: https://aws.amazon.com/route53/ https://aws.amazon.com/route53/ Dns Made Easy: http://www.dnsmadeeasy.com/ http://www.dnsmadeeasy.com/ Dnsperf.com is also a good resource to compare speed and reliability of DNS providers.

verandaguy 10y ago
I've been using Route53 for the last 3 years, and I'll vouch for it. It's pretty sweet -- the UI is clear, but allows for a decent amount of configuration, and it's reliable. It also integrates with major registrars (GANDI's a big one) and lets you manage domain ownership via an AWS account -- and personally, I prefer unified bills.
- cpks 10y ago
  I'll anti-vouch for Route53 for personal use. I use AWS pretty broadly, but with something like DNS, I like having a little bit more support if things go wrong. Amazon won't do much without a $upport contract. It's fine for business use with a support contract.
- stevekemp 10y ago
  Route53 is awesome. I personally wrap it in git - https://dns-api.com/ https://dns-api.com/ - and remove the per-query pricing to provide stability.
tracker1 10y ago
Not sure if it's the same service, but if you're using Google as your registrar, DNS seems to be included... would be surprised if it wasn't the same infrastructure. I've heard good things about AWS Route53 as well.
- pram 10y ago
  Google support confirmed that their Domains DNS is the same infra as the Cloud DNS

larrysalibra 10y ago

NYC-based NS1: https://ns1.com https://ns1.com

stevekemp 10y ago
Ironically they're now down - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13019858 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13019858