I use route53 for all of my domains (I don't have anywhere near 1000). The $1/mo was worth it to me simply to ease the pain of updating DNS information; I set t

I use route53 for all of my domains (I don't have anywhere near 1000). The $1/mo was worth it to me simply to ease the pain of updating DNS information; I set the name servers once (to point to AWS), and then only have to look to one place (through shell!) to manage DNS. I switch VPS hosts often enough that having shell based tool like route53 to switch DNS records has come in very handy. I also have a habit of switching domain registrars regularly. Having DNS managed by a 3rd party like route53 makes a change like this simple (just updating name servers once the transfer's done). I don't have the time to learn how to manage my own DNS server, so I'm happy to pay $1/mo to make my life a bit easier, and even happier to pay $0.50. I use pcorliss' ruby_route_53 gem[1]. [1] https://github.com/pcorliss/ruby_route_53 https://github.com/pcorliss/ruby_route_53