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DNS Made Easy
A global managed DNS provider for both primary and secondary DNS. Provides their clients full manageability and add on services including disaster recovery and round robin load balancing They currently handle about 400 million queries daily with 12 nodes that handle traffic on their primary DNS platform. Locations include Virginia, Texas, California, Illinois, New York, Washington State, UK, Germany, and Hong Kong. Their network runs off of IP Anycast and BGP routing, which they upgraded to in 2004. They also say they are running a proprietary software. They provide complete manageability of your dns records, allowing you to set your own TTL’s and make bulk changes to multiple domains/records. They do offer 24/7 phone support but will charge you. There is no history of DNS Made Easy having any outages and they guarantee 100% uptime.
Additional Services:
Secondary DNS
System Monitor and Failover (primary dns only)
Round Robin Load Balancing
SMTP Authentication Services
Email Forwarding
IMAP / POP services
Pricing:
Home User $1.25/month ( 3 domains, 120 records, 1 million queries)
Small Business $2.50/month (10 domains, 400 records, 5 million queries)
Business $5.00/month (25 domains, 1,000 records, 10 million queries)
Corporate $125/month (50 domains, 2,000 records, 50 million queries)
Enterprise $2,500/month (up to 750 billion queries)
Further Information:
They will charge you up to $100/hr for their phone support.
Their auto-failover service allows you to ping your IP’s every 2-4 minutes on 3 protocols; TCP, UDP, and HTTP on any port you desire. You can have a backup of up to 5 IP’s per A record.
You can lower your TTL’s as low as 5 seconds on a given record.
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On May 6, 2009 Justin wrote:
I really like this company. Been using them for 3 years now, and never had an issue. They provide a bunch of services so you dont have to go elsewhere to get them. I can update my records pretty quickly and the user interface took me no time to learn how to use. The only annoying thing is that I have to pay for their phone support.
On May 14, 2009 Bill Messinger wrote:
I really love DNS Made Easy. I have used them for over 7 years and I have never had one second of downtime. They are one of the only providers I know that has 100% DNS uptime history.
I wish there web interface was a little more updated, that is the only marks that I can take off for them.
You do have to pay for their phone support if you are in their plans of $5 per month or less (which makes perfect sense). Not sure how you would expect anyone qualified to talk to you for $5 per month.
On May 21, 2009 peter wrote:
I have been using DNS Made Easy for a few years now. I have no
complaints about the service at all, my DNS has never gone down.
I would recommend this company to anyone, great pricing!
On June 29, 2009 Chris Meller wrote:
We used DNS Made Easy at a previous employer and I was pleased with the service enough to try it for my personal sites. I’ve been using it for over a year now and couldn’t be happier.
Their control panel may not be the sexiest, but the service sure kicks ass. There’s never been any downtime and response times are great (I monitor it with Pingdom).
The service is great, so I’ve never needed any phone support. At $14.95 a year I wouldn’t expect any either.
Great service at a great price, you can’t beat them.
On August 24, 2009 Tyler wrote:
1) Their website is very ugly, hard to manage.
2) Their network is good since they offer AnyCast.
3) Their support sucks.
If you don’t need support ever, go for it… Otherwise, stay away.
On August 26, 2009 Jonathan Goldfude wrote:
One of the best DNS services that I have ever seen. They are easy to manage and they do everything correct.
When I open support tickets they are replied very quickly and accurately.
On August 26, 2009 James Schirra wrote:
I have been using DNS Made Easy for a few years now and I couldn’t be happier. I have used a few of their competitors and moved away from them due to overblown pricing, performance issues, and outages. DNS Made Easy says that they have never been down, and I believe them because my DNS has never been down and I haven’t even seen a single hiccup.
I wouldn’t call their interface ugly. I would call it functional. Anyone who finds their control panel hard to use probably doesn’t know much about DNS.
When I make a change to any record in any of my domains that change is instantly propagated to all of their servers.
DNS Made Easy has servers anycast all over the world, so my customers in the US and EU all see excellent performance.
The price of their service is much lower than I could reach running my own servers and they are dead bang reliable. I can’t ask for anything more from a DNS provider.
On March 5, 2010 Nick T wrote:
DNS Made Easy is AWESOME! Great service at an incredible price! I highly recommend you all use them.
On April 18, 2010 Amy wrote:
I have been using DNS Made Easy for a few years now and I couldn’t be happier. I have used a few of their competitors and moved away from them due to overblown pricing, performance issues, and outages. DNS Made Easy says that they have never been down, and I believe them because my DNS has never been down and I haven’t even seen a single hiccup.
I wouldn’t call their interface ugly. I would call it functional. Anyone who finds their control panel hard to use probably doesn’t know much about DNS.
When I make a change to any record in any of my domains that change is instantly propagated to all of their servers.
DNS Made Easy has servers anycast all over the world, so my customers in the US and EU all see excellent performance.
The price of their service is much lower than I could reach running my own servers and they are dead bang reliable. I can’t ask for anything more from a DNS provider.
On April 19, 2010 Michelle wrote:
I really love DNS Made Easy. I have used them for over 7 years and I have never had one second of downtime. They are one of the only providers I know that has 100% DNS uptime history.
I wish there web interface was a little more updated, that is the only marks that I can take off for them.
You do have to pay for their phone support if you are in their plans of $5 per month or less (which makes perfect sense). Not sure how you would expect anyone qualified to talk to you for $5 per month.
On April 23, 2010 Amy wrote:
We used DNS Made Easy at a previous employer and I was pleased with the service enough to try it for my personal sites. I’ve been using it for over a year now and couldn’t be happier.
Their control panel may not be the sexiest, but the service sure kicks ass. There’s never been any downtime and response times are great (I monitor it with Pingdom).
The service is great, so I’ve never needed any phone support. At $14.95 a year I wouldn’t expect any either.
Great service at a great price, you can’t beat them.
On April 27, 2010 Christopher wrote:
I have been using DNS Made Easy for a few years now and I couldn’t be happier. I have used a few of their competitors and moved away from them due to overblown pricing, performance issues, and outages. DNS Made Easy says that they have never been down, and I believe them because my DNS has never been down and I haven’t even seen a single hiccup.
I wouldn’t call their interface ugly. I would call it functional. Anyone who finds their control panel hard to use probably doesn’t know much about DNS.
When I make a change to any record in any of my domains that change is instantly propagated to all of their servers.
DNS Made Easy has servers anycast all over the world, so my customers in the US and EU all see excellent performance.
The price of their service is much lower than I could reach running my own servers and they are dead bang reliable. I can’t ask for anything more from a DNS provider.
On April 28, 2010 Tony wrote:
1) Their website is very ugly, hard to manage.
2) Their network is good since they offer AnyCast.
3) Their support sucks.
If you don’t need support ever, go for it… Otherwise, stay away.
On July 20, 2010 Kitvy wrote:
DNSMadeEasy is awesome. I use their service and it is very reliable. Price is competitive and affordable for small and personal user.
Highly recommended.
On August 10, 2010 Dave wrote:
“On August 07, 2010 DNS Made Easy was the target of a large multi Gb/s attack against all of our name servers. The attack started at 8:00 UTC and was fully mitigated by 14:00 UTC. During this time period there were regional outages from some or all of our name servers. Regional outages means that certain regions of the world were not able to resolve your DNS and other regions of the world were resolving normally. When all name servers were not reachable a DNS query would have been lost, when some name servers were not reachable then DNS performance would have been slower than normal but still operational.
The regional downtime was in very small periods but it still did affect the overall resolution for all of our client’s DNS.”
I was affected and this tells me DNS Made Easy does not have the bandwidth capacity and capabilities that I thought they did. Looking elsewhere as I can not afford a second a down time.