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Why are DNS services so expensive?
There were days when ZoneEdit would let you host up to five domains completely free of cost. And reasonably so, AFAIK a DNS reply rarely crosses 520 bytes unless you are doing something exotic.
ZoneEdit now charges $12 per domain per year. Others seem to have joined the bandwagon. Why so expensive? Most importantly, are there any "full-featured" free providers of repute remaining?
- opendomain 14y agoCloudFlare is Free for basic DNS and have GREAT security features.
- PythonDeveloper 14y agoI pay $3 a month for 10 domains at dnsimple.com . Service is great and they have not had an outage in the 18 months that I've used them.
- jauer 14y agoDNS is one of those things that is easy to do yet hard to do right. On the low end someone could run nsd/bind/powerdns on a vm from linode and one from prgmr and be 80% of the way there. That extra 20% involves getting your own IP space for anycast, proper instrumentation, BGP, probably colocation around the world, and making that all work together. If someone is going to go to all that trouble they darn well better be charging for it if you want to be able to depend on it.
- AxisOfEval 14y agoHmmm... Thanks. That clears it :o). But at the same time, I have rarely seen players who charge (and some of them quite a lot) advertise or talk about their anycast capabilities.
- jauer 14y agoThey could be charging for convenience, a pretty UI, etc. To name a few of the more popular ones that charge that I'm aware of: Amazon Route53: http://aws.amazon.com/route53/faqs/#Route_53_anycast http://aws.amazon.com/route53/faqs/#Route_53_anycast Dyn (right below the price) http://dyn.com/dns/dynect-managed-dns-lite/ http://dyn.com/dns/dynect-managed-dns-lite/ DNS Made Easy: http://www.dnsmadeeasy.com/technology/ip-anycast/ http://www.dnsmadeeasy.com/technology/ip-anycast/ EasyDNS: https://web.easydns.com/dns_management/?icode=dnshosting https://web.easydns.com/dns_management/?icode=dnshosting