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Do you host your DNS at your domain registrar?
OpaqueRegistrant
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Curious after a recent thread about this. Do you use your registrar's DNS servers or different ones? This isn't about your computer's DNS.
Do you use your domain registrar's DNS servers?
- Do you use your domain registrar's DNS servers?137 votes
- My domains use my registrar's DNS servers21.90%
- My domains use other DNS servers72.26%
- I don't know what this means2.19%
- I don't have any domains3.65%
Comments
Using my own. Cloudflare when lazy.
Registrar DNS is way easier. I already pay for the domain, why should I pay more for ClouDNS or whatever?
he.net slaving from my own hidden master
using bunny dns
Cloudflare and Hurricane Electric.
I dont have any domains
Cloudflare.
I'm not host anything critical, so I just use the default nameservers.
Most of the time, self-hosted PowerDNS (own nameservers).
In some cases the Registrar's own DNS.
all my domain = cloudflare
All of my domains are using Cloudflare DNS. But I don't use Cloudflare as CDN unless I need IPv6.
Hidden master via knotdns, pushed to 1984.hosting as the public facing ns. He.net and afraid.org can be used as hidden master too but i found some annoyances with them. I've experienced the smoothest experience with 1984.hosting with the hidden master setup so I've stayed with them.
My usage by ranking:
I use cloudflare mostly... but recently moved 1 domain to Bunny.
Most of our domains are using Cloudflare DNS.
But we don’t use Cloudflare as CDN unless we need IPv4.
My own (NSD).
https://dns.he.net/
Free DNS service
Cloudflare as registrar and dns service for my couple of domains. Too small to complicate it. I even use google hosted gmail too (free old G suite legacy)
Cloudflare
Out of 19 comments total, 10 say cloudflare (more than half), 4 - their own.
CF keeps replacing the open internet
P.S.
I use either shared hosting provider's NS (you can just add a domain, without actually hosting it), or 3rd party services - these days HE.net mostly, Zilore before that.
Never cloudflare.
also using cloudflare... Maybe its time to change
Indeed.
I don't use CloudFlare, I run my own DNS. Using bind, the master is firewalled off from the world and I have 4 public facing DNS servers that are secondaries from that one.
Cloudflare for registrar and DNS, so easy to keep track of things in one spot.
There's good reason most people are using Cloudflare; it's good, it's reliable (yes it is), it's easy, it's flexible, it's free and it's feature rich (including integrated CDN).
I use Hurricane Electric DNS for third level and higher domains that Cloudflare doesn't accept.
What do you mean by "you can just add a domain, without actually hosting it"?
You can use it as dns server instead hosting any actual files on the domain in that shared hosting. Usually i found cpanel shared hosting to have fastest dns servers in delegating. Its almost instant.. another one is HestiaCP too
Use DigitalOcean their DNS is free, reliable, has api and cli control. Easy to create scripts which interact with the cli. I would be completely lost without it.
Lately, I have been self-hosting authoritative DNS using my own hardware.
Cloudflare is one of the DNS services with the highest uptime. The DigitalOcean DNS service already uses the Cloudflare network. Registrars' DNS services are unreliable, and their uptime is uncertain.
Yes. Including 192.168.* addresses for my home network.