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Link | Akamai | Amazon Route 53 | Cloudflare | ClouDNS | Constellix | Division120 | dns.com | DNS Made Easy | DNS4.PRO | DNSEver | DNSEXIT | dnspark | DNSPod | dollardns.net | DynDNS | Dynect | easyDNS | EntryDNS | Google Cloud DNS | GSLB.me | LoadDNS | namecheap | netriplex | Nettica | no-ip | NSOne | PointDNS/PointHQ/Copper.io | PowerDNS | Rage4 | UltraDNS/Neustar | Zerigo | ZoneEdit | Zonomi | Bukaka Host |
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| Website | akamai.com/... | amazon.com/... | cloudflare.com/... | cloudns.net | constellix.com | division120.com | dns.com | dnsmadeeasy.com | DNS4.PRO | dnsever.com | dnsexit.com | dnspark.com | dnspod.com | dollardns.net | dyndns.com | dyn.com/... | easydns.com/... | entrydns.net | google.com/... | gslb.me | loaddns.com/... | namecheap.com | netriplex.com | nettica.com/... | no-ip.com | nsone.net | pointhq.com | powerdns.net | rage4.com | neustar.biz/... | zerigo.net | zoneedit.com/... | Zonomi.com | bukakahost.com |
| Offers Anycast Network | Yes 18 locations worldwide | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes 30 servers | No | No | Yes 5 servers on paid plans | No | No | No | Yes 17 PoP Anycast | Yes 25 servers | No | Yes 12 datacenters across the globe | Yes 14 nodes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | |||
| Server Locations | 18 | 36 | 21 on six continents | 16 | 17 | 5 | 3 | 17 | 12 | 11 | 12 | 3 | 5 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Dynamic DNS Updates | Yes via API only, no web interface | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes With Paid plans | Yes | Yes via API | Yes with TSIG | Yes Web & API | Yes Special DynECT DDNS Package | Yes Dynamic DNS updates can be performed using the popular ddclient (dyndns2 protocol) or via GSLB.me free REST APIs | Yes | Yes Web & API: Free Dynamic DNS and Plus DNS for DNS on your own domain name | - N/A | No | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||||||
| Free Plan | Yes | Yes 4 DNS servers; 3 DNS zones; 3 Mail forwards; Unlimited records; Dynamic DNS; Web redirects | No | Yes | No | Yes 5 domains | Yes 10 records limit | Yes | Yes 2 hosts on provided domains | No | No | Yes | No | Yes 1 authoritative zone (max 20 records) and 1 dynamic load-balanced FQDN (geohost) | No | Yes | No | Yes 3 hosts on provided domains | Yes Unlimited Zones, 50 RRs | Yes | Yes 250,000 queries, unlimited domains & RRs | Yes 3 domains, 50k queries/mo | No | Yes | ||||||||||
| Max. Resource Records | Default: 10,000 You can request more here: amazon.com/... | Free Plan: 1,000 Paid Tiers: 3,500 | Depends on Tier | 10 / Unlimited on highest tier | 5000 - You can request more | Free usage: 20, Pro users: unrestricted | 50 for Free Tier Unlimited for All Others Tiers | 0 | Depends on tier | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Queries Included | Route 53 is pay-per-use: $0.50 per million queries for the first 1 billion queries/month $0.25 per million queries after that | Unlimited | Pay as you go. Each million queries cost $0.395 /month (if less than a billion queries /month). | 5 mil/mo | 500,000 | Unlimited | Unlimited | 2.5 million DNS queries per month - $200/mo | No limitations on the number of queries | Unlimited | 5M/mo free | 1 mil/mo | 1M/mo | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Query Overage | $0.50 per million | No overages. Pay as you go. | $1.60-$6/mil/mo | $5M/mo | 2 Euro per domain over 250,000 requests; then 1 Euro for requests over 1M | $2.50-$4.90/million/month | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name | Akamai | Amazon Route 53 | Cloudflare | ClouDNS | Constellix | Division120 | dns.com | DNS Made Easy | DNS4.PRO | DNSEver | DNSEXIT | dnspark | DNSPod | dollardns.net | DynDNS | Dynect | easyDNS | EntryDNS | Google Cloud DNS | GSLB.me | LoadDNS | namecheap | netriplex | Nettica | no-ip | NSOne | PointDNS/PointHQ/Copper.io | PowerDNS | Rage4 | UltraDNS/Neustar | Zerigo | ZoneEdit | Zonomi | Bukaka Host |
| Additional Features | cloudns.net/... | Integrated monitoring, enhanced DNS Failover, GeoDNS, GeoIP routing, IP Filters, Proximity-based routing, Vanity DNS, record pools, weighted round robin, ANAME records, and AAAANAME records. | DNSSEC, slave | TSIG Security Updates | 6 dynamic load balancing algorithms (round robin, any available, priority, weighted, proximity, georouting). Geographical balancing includes proximity balancing and geo-routing. Full authoritative DNS and Dynamic DNS supported. Supported healthcheck: ICMP, TCP, HTTP, HTTPS, POP3, POP3s, IMAP, IMAPs, SMTP, SSH, OpenVPN, “Always up” and Passive. Supported alerting through e-mail, SMS and pushover.net | Built-in Monitoring, Failover Support, Global Server Load Balancing, Weighting, Sticky Sessions, User Access Management | 2-factor auth with Authy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Minimum TTL | 0 | 5 | 5 | 60 | 1 | 15 seconds | 0 | 60 | 60 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| PTR RR | Yes For All Zones | Yes only for in-addr.arpa | Yes for all zones | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| SPF RR | Yes | Yes | No only TXT | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Price for 1 domain | $1.00 per month per hosted zone | FREE | $5.00 /month | $24.95/mo | $29.95/yr | $20/yr | 0.1 Euros/month | $0 | $23/mo | 24.95/yr | $0 | 2.00/year | $30/mo | FREE | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Price for 10 domains | $9.50 /month | $54.95/mo | $29.95/yr | 1 Euro/month | $0 | $0 | 17.00/year | $20/yr | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Price for 25 domains | $17.00 /month | $59.95/yr | 3 Euro/month | $0 | $0 | 36.25/year | $39/yr | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Price for 100 domains | $5.00/month | $24.13 /month | $210/yr | $200/mo | 10 Euro/month | $0 | Yes. | $0 | 125/year | $99/yr | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Custom nameservers? | Free Plan: No Pro Tier: No Business Tier: Yes Enterprise Tier: Yes |
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