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ZoneEdit
A managed DNS provider that offers various service level agreements which you can decide on. They primarily have servers in the US and they offer a variety of add on services. They currently manage around 600,000 domains and they have 5 node locations; New York, DC, Texas, California, and Germany. Their network is not running IP anycast and their resolver code is BIND. They provide an interface to manage your domains and they support all record types. There is no phone support and its not entirely 24x7x365. They provide various SLA’s based upon how many servers you sign up for.
Additional Services:
- Email Forwarding
- URL Forwarding
- Dynamic DNS
- Email Recovery
- Failover
- Load Balancing
- Reverse DNS
- Domain parking
Pricing:
You purchase “zone credits”
Free – first 5 domains added with under 200MB usage each
$10.95 – 1 zone credit
$49.95 – 10 zone credits
$99.95 – 25 zone credits
$349.95 – 100 zone credits
All of these include unlimited records per domain.
Every time 1 year or 200MB of usage is used (1 million DNS queries), 1 debit is added to your account for the zone
If you add extra (third, fourth) of their name servers it will cost an extra ‘zone credit’ (1) per year
Failover monitor service costs an extra ‘zone credit’ (1) per year
Backup mail service also costs an extra ‘zone credit’ (1) per year
*FREE accounts are ones where the usage is less than 200MB per domain, and there have been fewer than 5 domains added to the account, and no premium services have been used.
Further Information:
The average failure detection time on their failover service is 10 minutes, which varies depending on the situation. Recovery times average around 5 minutes.
Mail backup service will store mail up to 10 days.
Feedback has shown their interface to be very unattractive.
The lowest TTL you can set is 20 minutes and you cannot set them individually.
Based on trace route tests, it seems as though they have more node locations than what their website says; ie. New Zealand, New Jersey and Wisconsin.
They have not updated their website since 2002.
They have one known outage back in November 2006.
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On May 6, 2009 Melissa wrote:
Zoneedit has been working great for me the past couple of years. I initially was looking for a company with servers outside of the US and a failover solution. Now i’m using them for several things including load balancing and reverse DNS. They have a lot of different options to choose from. Don’t take their website into consideration when choosing them!
On May 19, 2009 Networker wrote:
I’ve neen using ZoneEdit for the last three years and they are, so far reliable the dame as Dyndns
On August 30, 2010 Daniel wrote:
I tried Zone Edit for a very short time because I could not get past a glaring security issue. Zone Edit allows a Zone Transfer which is a stupid security mistake to make at this point in Internet history. It’s also something they obviously understand the risks of because they do not allow Zone Transfers for their own domain name. I sent a service request and it has been 4 days. They do state that they ignore some service requests (http://www.zoneedit.com/contact.html) and I guess mine is in their ignore pile.
Overall if you care about security or returned support requests skip Zone Edit.