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I don't know if a whole TLD has ever gone down. But I think there was a case of Network Solutions having a registration problem vis-à-vis Hurricane. So Hurricane's DNS users went down because of the one and only domain name Hurricane was using. So my question would be, What did the DNS hosting industry learn from that, given the widespread use of only one domain name for multiple nameservers?
Keep the domain registration expiration date ten years out; and every time it goes to under nine years left to expiration, buy another year.
Good one! This brought a smile to my face.
I have seen electrical desks that you can level up/down to work while standing up!
@Michal212 feel free to DM me if you want to discuss your DNS needs
Then why do you seek different TLDs' redundancy?..
https://www.trustpilot.com/review/bunny.net
Because TLD redundancy automatically brings domain name redundancy (by definition). Some hosts do it. It's easy. So it makes me wonder why more hosts don't do it.
I am not so sure about your vision.... 🤷🏻
We do it, but mainly just because we can. Our DNS hosting nameservers use
.st,.gd,.vgand.fo. We're an accredited registrar for each and it's unlikely all registries would conspire to revoke this at the same time, but it's not likely any single one would anyway. Similarly, our unicast nameservers use two different DDoS protection upstreams despite both being in New York. Mainly just for some redundancy, knowing that each provider is in a different DC and on different networks.But ours is still very limited in capabilities. Not meant to really compete with the big dogs yet anyway... Speaking of which, we're still using Bunny for our main site and other projects that need GeoDNS capabilities...
I've been using Bunny for 3+ (?) years now. No major issues that I've been aware of. Cost is very reasonable.
Does Oracle's free tier include DNS hosting?
DM send
Nope. Authoritative hosted zone is paid. Rarely those big cloud provider gave hosted dns zone for free. I've only know digitalocean that allow adding zone for free, no questions asked but i believe they use cloudflare as backend. Another one allow free zone is hetzner. Contabo used to allow for free but now they change to also require existing paid product.
Aws is even ridiculous, even domain bought with them doesn't get free hosted zone. Linode only allow adding zone if got other paid products with them. Vultr the same, can activate zone only if got running vps but they allow destroying the vps afterwards and the zone will keep working so the cost will be minimal to create ipv6 only instance, add zone, destroy the instance.
Digitalocean and hetzner doesn't do dnssec though so I've been using vultr because they do dnssec. Costed me like $0.003 per zone for creating an ipv6 instance, add zone, destroy instance.
cloudns, dnspod, bunny.
I have a technical question.
When copying and pasting nameservers from a DNS host to a registrar, does the order of the nameservers matter? For example, PTRDNS offers four nameservers, each with a unique TLD. If I remember correctly, their
.eunameserver appears first, which implies it would be listed first with the registrar. I would have expected a three-letter TLD to go first, but I don't have a specific reason for that assumption.I think normally it round robin?
Don't mean to hijack, but... Currently using DigitalOcean and only using hosted email (ie no web hosting or any other service). Hearing people here keep he.net in high regard, makes me want to know if it's worth switching over. How does one stack against another? Not much interested in the lowest possible latency, but wanted the highest possible reliability.
TIA
PS: Only wanted to compare free options, so no bunny.net or other paid-for please
The order of the nameservers does not matter, you just need to enter all of them at your registrar.
Resolvers seem to prefer nameservers with shorter RTT, that is those that are "closer" in network terms (see https://blog.apnic.net/2019/08/16/recursive-resolver-authoritative-nameserver-selection/ ).
Thanks. It's working like a champ. If anyone needs DNS hosting, check out PTRDNS. From creating an account to going live, no nonsense.
CloudDNS 4,95€ DNS zones: 50
Obviously you don't have to share this, but I'd love to check whois for any domain name whose DNS is hosted by (and paid to) ClouDNS.
Why?
I just want to see what the nameservers are.
I just noticed that ovh also allow free hosted zone now. Just not anycast on free zone, and i think no dnssec for third party domain there. Just tested with 2 of my domains but i remembered again why i hate ovh, their panel is a crawling snail. Record edits do propagate quickly to their backend can do low 60sec ttl but goddamn their panel, took a few minutes for every edits to reflect there. Confused the hell outta me when dig already showed record already propagated but ovh panel still doesn't show anything. Its free though so beggars can't be choosers, I'll keep the 2 domains dns there.
Did you have other services there? I wonder if this is like Hetzner where having no other services is allowed when signing up for free DNS hosting.
I do have an existing .ovh domain but i think they don't limit it to ppl with existing paid product there. The dns menu and button to add third party dns zone exist even before i got the .ovh domain. Many registrar does that, godaddy, namecheap, porkbun allow adding third party zone. But creating an ovh account without really attempting to pay in cart will be a battle, because their stupid panel flow.