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Simple DNS Plus VS NSD

Compare Simple DNS Plus VS NSD and see what are their differences

Simple DNS Plus logo Simple DNS Plus

DNS Server for Windows

NSD logo NSD

NSD is an authoritative only, high performance, simple and open source name server.
  • Simple DNS Plus Landing page
    Landing page //
    2021-10-26
  • NSD Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-07-09

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NSD videos

NSD Powerball Review 2020: What They Don't Tell You

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  • Review - NSD Spinner Review And Test
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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Simple DNS Plus and NSD)
Security & Privacy
54 54%
46% 46
Ad Blockers
54 54%
46% 46
Monitoring Tools
48 48%
52% 52
Block Ads
56 56%
44% 44

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Simple DNS Plus seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 1 time since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Simple DNS Plus mentions (1)

  • Spamhaus RBL down. Causing E-mail ddelivery issues.
    Which DNS do you use for your external queries? We like to use a shadow DNS setup where Windows Server DC's do most of the local lookups but they reference another local server running Simple DNS Plus which handles anything external (both outgoing and incoming as we host our own DNS records); it has some nice performance / security features and helps insulate our DCs. Ultimately though we use Google / Quad9 for... Source: over 1 year ago

NSD mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of NSD yet. Tracking of NSD recommendations started around Mar 2021.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Simple DNS Plus and NSD, you can also consider the following products

PowerDNS - PowerDNS offers open source DNS software, services, and support.

BIND - BIND is by far the most widely used DNS software on the Internet.

Unbound - Unbound is a validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver.

Knot DNS - High-performance authoritative-only DNS server

dnsmasq - Dnsmasq is a lightweight, easy to configure DNS forwarder and DHCP server.

djbdns - The djbdns software package is a collection of Domain Name System tools created by Daniel J.