Free DNS service?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3796750

by stephenapple • 14 years ago

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Ever since EveryDNS was acquired by DynDNS I feel it left a void for a free DNS service. Does anyone else since this void? I may create a free DNS service to fill it. Thoughts, suggestions and feature requests would be greatly appreciated!

aq11• 14 years ago

http://www.namecheap.com/products/freedns.aspx

Not ideal, but not terrible either.

wegwerf• 14 years ago

I have no firsthand experience but 1984.is run a free DNS that I have heard mentioned a few times.

http://1984hosting.com will take you to their English site (although the What is FreeDNS? page is in Icelandic).

scas• 14 years ago

Hurricane Electric offers free DNS, http://dns.he.net

andrewhillman• 14 years ago

I use http://freedns.afraid.org. It's a great service.

pardner• 14 years ago

We are extremely happy with Zerigo. Great UX, with things like import/export of records, and ready-to-go snippets for email hosted at Godaddy etc and Heroku-hosted domains. They have a free plan (3 domains, 50k queries/mo). IMO their $19/year (20 domains, 1M queries/mo) and $39/year plan (45 domains, 2M queries/mo) are "pretty close" to free.

brandoncordell• 14 years ago

http://dnsimple.com

It's not free, but it's only like $3/mo. You get 1 month free, and with every referral you get a free month. It's by far the best and easiest dns service out there. It was a side project of an HN'er as well. He did a fantastic job with the service.

Makes DNS easy. When I wanted to set up google account stuff (mail, notes, docs, etc). I just clicked on the domain edit, clicked edit (or something along that verbiage) and chose it from the list. Also used that to set up my A record pointing my personal domain to my username.github.com site.

OJ• 14 years ago

I'm a huge fan of http://pointhq.com/

Free DNS service?

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