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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.
On September 21, 2010 Dan wrote:
Tony and Tyler appear to be singing the same tune! Yet certainly not my experience nor that of many who’ve posted here in review.
Certainly understand where Dave is coming from, yet I don’t know of too many organizations anywhere that can absorb 50Gb/s assault. Left out of his post were some key parts to this problem:
“4) How large of an attack was this?
This attack hit levels that were so high that our Tier1 upstreams were suffering latency and network issues for other clients at many of their locations due to this attack. This caused some of our Tier1 bandwidth providers to use their last resort response of null routing traffic to some of our IPs from some networks to prevent major service degradation to their core networks.
Measuring the exact size of this attack is rather difficult. However, discussions with our Tier1 bandwidth providers during the attack led to an estimate of 50 Gb/s in size. This was based on reports of multiple 10Gb/s lines being saturated at multiple different providers in different geographic regions.
During our after-action discussions internally and with our providers after the attack was mitigated we analyzed all information available to us through monitoring systems and traffic reports and we revised our estimate of the attack size to be fluctuating between 20Gb/s and 40Gb/s during the attack. We will never know the true size of this attack as we actively moved traffic around to different locations throughout the attack and IPs were temporarily null routed into and through various networks, and some traffic was blocked from provider to provider in response to the attack.
We do know that due to the service implication to the Tier1 providers, networking teams from China Netcom, China Telecom, Level3, GlobalCrossing, Tiscali, and Arbinet were involved to stop the attacks. Level3 and Arbinet both played special heroic roles in facilitating that the correct people were involved from all networks to make sure that the attack was stopped as quickly as possible.
5) How was this attack stopped?
Fighting attacks of this magnitude is very complex and a full answer involves much information that we do not want these criminals to know. What we can say is that that we used a combination of routing techniques, DDoS mitigation tools, customized firewalls, and high level inter-provider negotiations.
China Netcom and China Telecom had to null route the name servers from their networks in order for the attack to not impact other traffic they had going to the United States. ”
If Tier1 providers were suffering from this attack, it’s no wonder that DME suffered. And recovered in relatively short order. Also, I commend their staff on not only how they dealt with the technical response but how they’ve dealt with the public response: head on and straight up. Kudo’s to DME!
On December 1, 2010 John wrote:
WARNING! Dnsmadeeasy.com COMPLAINT:
DNDmadeEasy Sucks! They are the rudest piece of scum on the planet and will steal your money. I repeat DNDmadeeasy.com sucks. These guys threatened to sue me because of a false spam complaint and then would not even refund my money. DNSmadeeasy is a scam! I repeat, go elsewhere. You been warned. And no, I’m not a competitor as they will probably state. Don’t fall for their lies.
On February 14, 2011 Jason wrote:
I agree with most comments here. DNS Made Easy’s support is the worst ever. They are rude and very slow.
Will not recommend them.
On May 26, 2011 Steve wrote:
I (think) I wish I found this site before signing up and paying my money to DNSME. Up until now they have been pretty helpful. But now that I got stuff set up I’m not sure what I have and am not getting any or very slow email support. (They did mention they would be happy to charge me for phone support.) All I wanted to do is have a fail over service so that if my main site when down then it would fail over to a back up site. They explained to me that this was easy. So I bought a back up domain moved both sites named servers to DNSME and bought the fail over feature. I set it up as described in the videos including a heart beat script and thought I was set. I crippled the heart beat script and sure enough I got the email messages telling me my site was down. However when I hit domain1.com it did not take me to domain2.com. (And oddly after hours of waiting for TTL time out, domain1.com still was responsive.) When I contacted DNSME they told me fail over doesn’t work that way but only changes the “A” record IP address to the new server. So I didn’t need a second domain. “Even better” I said and “who do you do that?” What I got back was “The destination backup server would likely need a virtual host configuration…” “likely need a virtual host”? What kind of answer is that? Seems like what I’m trying to do is pretty straight forward and common and of value to others so why don’t they describe how do set that up? If someone knows how to step me through this (if its possible) and would be willing to share I’d really appreciate it. info@casadebellagio.com
On December 20, 2011 privacy wrote:
I was considering using their services, but after I saw what they stated in their Terms of Service. I have decided I will never use their services. They will put all the costs to you if your domain is attacked, this is crazy, what if you just get picked randomly. This is Wow
DNS Made Easy follows industry standards for dealing with DoS and DDoS attacks against a client’s domain(s). If DNS Made Easy is under a DDoS attack due to a client’s domain(s) then all associated costs with fighting the attack will be passed on to the client. The client is expected to reimburse DNS Made Easy within 24 hours for any and all additional costs of bandwidth and emergency expenditures to DNS Made Easy in the course of mitigating a Denial-of-Service or Distributed Denial-of-Service attacks against a client’s domain(s). This includes, but is not limited to, support time, bandwidth, special consulting, and loss of business associated to the client’s attack.