Zeit.world: free global DNS

https://zeit.world

by TheCoreh • 10 years ago

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infodroid2• 10 years ago

But what's the catch?

Rauchg4• 10 years ago

Co-founder of ▲ZEIT here. There's no catch. If you deploy with https://zeit.co/now, DNS is free.

Here's a little .gif showing the entire process if you're curious: https://twitter.com/rauchg/status/746093788272037888.

base• 10 years ago

How are you going to make money?

kerkeslager• 10 years ago

How are you planning to fund this long-term?

KiniK• 10 years ago

now alias [my id] [my domain].com ⏎ > [my domain].com is a custom domain. > Verifying the DNS settings for [my domain].com (see https://zeit.world for help) > Detected zeit.world nameservers! Configuring records. > Error! Custom domains are only enabled for premium accounts. Please upgrade at https://zeit.co/account.

DamnableNook• 10 years ago

The post title and linked page don't make it obvious that this isn't a standalone service; it's a feature of their "now" hosting service. So you can't use it for your app unless you host it with "now".

"now" has a free, highly limited tier for open source projects, but their standard tier is $15/month.

Rauchg4• 10 years ago

We've been getting lots of great feedback and usage on our OSS tier. Improvements are coming. Many of the limits are in place to prevent abuse.

newjersey• 10 years ago

I think the worst part is limiting the number of deployments you can do per month.

20 FREE deploys per month

This isn't good. I think the latest meta is that We want people to deploy early and deploy often. If something escapes code review (which lets face it: we make mistakes and is probably just two or more "Looks Good To Me") we want to catch it and deploy a fix as quickly as possible.

Do deploys really cost that much in terms of compute resources for you? Or is it just an arbitrary differentiator?

ymse• 10 years ago

The title is misleading. It's not a DNS service, but a node.js hosting platform similar to Heroku.

Custom domain is not included in the free tier: https://zeit.co/now#pricing

If you're on a paid plan, you'll get Geo-DNS for "free".

Zeit.world: free global DNS

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