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Free Nameserver Providers
WellGrounded
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Does anyone know of any good nameserver providers like Cloudflare? Do any low-end providers provide nameserver services for example?
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Rage4 DNS.
Just out of curiosity, what's wrong with cloudflare?
I could offer you my DNS Cluster, Three locations atm 2 EU and Australia.
Rage4 and DNS4.Pro
Both services are offering a "state of the art" anycast network and additionally lots of other premium features such as GeoDNS, DNSSEC and so on. You can't really go wrong with them :P
You're probably best off with Dns4pro.com - it's ran by @Amfy and he really cares about his network and will gladly help you with any problems, at least, that's what he did with me.
Setting up your own cluster won't work because it will access them in specified order and use the second, third etc as failover. Cloudflare, rage4 and dns4pro are all anycast.
Umm, no. That's not how DNS works.
It is more or less. There are tons of unicast nameserver provider outsite that are advertising "we have servers at tons of locations" - in general that doesn't mean anything, except redundancy.
The query time can only be reduced at the routing layer, so the only option is some kind of anycast... however, anycast adds lots of other nice features as well.
Anyone know any CDN provider that can 'CDN' for Free for https/SSL sites too? I know I can manually exclude subdomain with https. Cloudfare charge this for at least $20
Nameservers for a domain are not accessed "in specified order".
https://dns.he.net/
http://www.cloudns.net/
Always been using them.
Personally, I use [https://namecheap.com/products/freedns.aspx](Namecheaps DNS) , mainly becuase most of my domains are with them. I also found out today they support round robin.
dns.he.net
dns.he.net, namecheap dns and that's is all I use.
dns.he.net is backed by a pretty big operation, but I never used them extensively because I was intimidated by non-colourful control panels.
Already mentioned dns.he.net and ClouDNS.net - I am using both. Also, DNSExit.
dns.he.net
Never had a problem yet.