DNSimple Reviews and details

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• Beware of EuroDNS

  If you’re still looking for an alternative, https://dnsimple.com is an excellent engineer focused no bullshit domain registrar and they support .co.za. - Source: Hacker News / 13 days ago

• DNS Hosting: GoDaddy vs ???

  I also use and love the service provided by https://dnsimple.com/. Source: about 1 year ago

• DNS Hosting: GoDaddy vs ???

  I personally use https://dnsimple.com/ for this. Source: about 1 year ago

• Ask HN: What do you like or dislike about team/org domain name management?

  I've used the two most popular domain name providers, GoDaddy and Namecheap, to manage domains. Both leave a lot to be desired, particularly around teams & permissions, that I'm considering to build a product around if others have similar problems. I'm curious if you have the same problems and what products you're already using to solve said problems. Here's my list: 1. For eng orgs of 50+ people, I'd like to... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Ask HN: What's the current best domain host?

  Https://dnsimple.com/ Hands down, blindfolded, and drunk. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Alternative to Google Domains?

  I’ve heard good things about https://dnsimple.com/ but no experience of them myself, I use Microsoft. Source: over 1 year ago

• Ask HN: So you moved off Heroku, where did you go?

  I made a video about it but it is not published yet. I hope to publish it soon here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkc8xf5A7qCQydN6tG0BmmQ There was no misconfiguration, just millions of DNS requests but not millions of actual users. I was in contact with AWS support multiple times. The only solution was so use AWS Shield Advanced. They did refund most of the charges but it was too risky for me. Even after I... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Anyone ever need to change DNS providers for Heroku web hosting?

  I can highly recommend https://dnsimple.com. They do ALIAS and has a good DNS management UI. I would avoid AWS Route 53 as they charge pr DNS lookup. Source: over 1 year ago

• Will setting up a HNS domain resolve in all browsers?

  Will https://dnsimple.com/, https://nextdns.io/, https://hnsdomain.com/ or any other service solve the issue so the domain will resolve like usual? And still have SSL and maybe even email? Source: over 1 year ago

• Tell HN: Godaddy canceled my domain, gave me 2h to respond, then charged €150

  I'm always amazed to find techie people that don't use something at least as good as https://dnsimple.com/. I've been using them since 2011 and have not had a single issue. In fact, they have just kept on progressively getting better! - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Are there any DNS Hosts that Support Algorithm 8 (RSA) DNSSEC?

  I pretty sure, from reading their documentation, that DNSimple (https://dnsimple.com) supports Alg. 8 for DNSSEC. Source: over 1 year ago

• Need to move to a different DNS host for public DNS

  Https://dnsimple.com/ might be a good fit. Source: almost 2 years ago

• SSL certificate not working on root domain

  If you really want the apex domain to work you'll either need to switch to a different DNS provide (like DNS Simple or use a service like mine Expedited WAF which will give you a static inbound IP which you can set an A record for. Source: over 2 years ago

• Transferring domain from Epik

  Choices really do depend on what you actually want out of a registrar. For example, if loads of rich automation is your thing dnsimple are great. Or you can pick someone cheaper but use cloudflare for your actual records, since CF have a fantastic API, crazy fast propagation, and integration with the rest of their ecosystem - at the cost of having an extra account, extra complexity, etc. Cloudflare are themselves... Source: over 2 years ago