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I believe OP was asking for authoritative dns, not recursive.
Primarily NS1, with a backup at he.net, for a few low traffic domains.
Not ideal in terms of features, but on the other hand I haven't had a DNS problem of any kind for the past 19 years.
Run a mix of NS1 and DNSMadeEasy with dnscontrol for mostly rDNS zones. Looking to replace NS1 as we're not getting much value out of it in comparison to the cost.
what to use depends on your use case. there are so many decent public options, then why offer one for the public? if you want to get into it then perhaps have a value add ready?
for myself, i use DoH wherever possible, or the vanilla public dns offerings from cloudflare or nextdns as mentioned by many already. at least for DoH, the mainstream services connect you to the nearest servers so "server location" is never an issue.
For authoritative DNS for my domains, I use Cloudflare. I chose Cloudflare only because it is required if you want to use their "at cost" domain registration and renewal services. It was a compromise. I would prefer to keep domain registration and authoritative DNS with separate providers.
For choosing DNS forwarders for recursive DNS, you may want to try a DNS benchmarking tool to see which DNSs give the best performance from your system's location:
https://www.grc.com/dns/benchmark.htm
default DNS by domain register
cloudflare & bunny dns
bunny.net for all domains.
Woops. Thx I do not complain
This is what people have commented so far, definitely a healthy amount of options, was expecting more bunny and cloudns and wasn't expecting to see HE up high. What are some must have features for a free dns? Planning on setting one up that people can use for free. (I am planning to set it up myself but if other people want it I wouldn't care)
cloudflare 13
hurricane electric 5
bunnydns 5
cloudns 4
ns1 3
desec 3
1984 2
afraid 2
hetzner 2
dnsmadeeasy 2
luadns 1
ultradns 1
gcore 1
Cloudflare free dns & Gcore free dns.
My main ones:
Cloudflare, NextDNS 👍
Cloudflare
dns.he.net is fast, free and very reliable but still no dnssec option (they did post they're working on it...) Nice backup for any primary.
Cloudflare is the best one, imho
cloudflare.. it's like all you can eat restaurant with delicious menus lol
Has anyone tried Zilore? They have a free version with 10,000,000 DNS queries, looks interesting.
Gcore and n1.
The geodns of Gcore is the best I have ever used (including lat long, asn, countries and visual map to each node).
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CloudFlare only.
Bind9 on 2x VPS, master/slave.
ClouDNS, mainly because they are the least expensive of the paid DNS services and the Anycast network is satisfyingly fast to update.
ClouDNS and self hosted!
Stability is my first consideration,
and I think dns.he.net and Cloudflare are good so far.
I think I am the first to mention DNSManager.io. Found the link to sign-up from here at LET. Simple and effective. I haven't had a problem so far. Hosting 29 domains with them. (decent mix of production domains in there).