Comments on: dns hosting

Question: dns hosting

stevejensen — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 10:17:34 -0800

DNS hosting - who has the most features and accessibility?

Looking for a DNS hosting service that provides a very robust web-based admin.

Must have the ability to create wildcards and some kind of export feature would be nice (for backups of zone files)

Netsol and register, while being "registrars" have crappy dns management tools. Looking for someone that has something better than these guys...

By: johannes

johannes — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 11:20:16 -0800

Look at UltraDNS. I haven't used their service recently (it's been over 3 years since I worked there), but the web interface was robust and the actual service underneath it was scalable and reliable.

By: twiggy

twiggy — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 11:21:17 -0800

GoDaddy's DNS management tool is actually pretty decent... I ask all of my webhosting clients to go through GoDaddy since I don't have my own two DNS servers (I don't have a major hosting company.. it's a friends and friends of friends sort of thing)

Joker.com is also good.

By: toomuch

toomuch — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 12:24:53 -0800

zoneedit - 5 free domains

By: misterioso

misterioso — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 13:04:36 -0800

I second ZoneEdit.

By: evariste

evariste — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 13:29:48 -0800

I use DNSMadeEasy and it's great. Recommended to me by the geniuses at Textdrive.

By: evariste

evariste — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 13:42:11 -0800

(DNSMadeEasy's pricing: 50 domains for $25/year)

By: thebabelfish

thebabelfish — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 14:24:17 -0800

EveryDns is a free DNS service that provides many extra services such as dynamic DNS and web hops. Without a donation, you can have 20 domains and 200 records total. A one time donation of at least 15$ will earn you unlimited resources. I highly recommend them.

By: stovenator

stovenator — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 15:44:54 -0800

I like Afraid.org. It's freem and they basically let you do anything you want (within reason, no SPAM allowed). I highly recommend their DNS service.

I used to use MiniDNS.net and loved it, because they allowed you to directly edit your zone records, but I stopped using them for some reason or another. I think it was because at the time they only offered DNS for Dynamic users, and I didn't need Dynamic DNS. But it's been a long while, so I'm not so sure anymore if that's why I dropped them.

By: stovenator

stovenator — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 15:46:15 -0800

s/freem/free/

I obviously meant "It's free, and..."

By: AllesKlar

AllesKlar — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 16:54:08 -0800

Since no one has "represented" it, I'm a fan of gandi.net

By: Mike C.

Mike C. — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 20:51:52 -0800

DynDNS.org has a good DNS service. And, no, I'm not talking about the 'dynamic' DNS entries. I've been using their Custom DNS service for about... two years. No complaints.

By: stevejensen

stevejensen — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 04:15:28 -0800

Thanks everyone!