With Digicert’s acquisition of DNS Made Easy (DNSME), DNSME has since hiked up their pricing for 25 zones from $75.00 to an astonishing $675 (Annual).
To be fair, existing users (legacy Business plan) only got a small bump from $75.00 to $96.00/yr, but, who knows how long that can last?
Since then I’ve been thinking about where I should migrate my DNS to after my contract with DNSME is due. I thought about building my own DNS clusters but it is just not worth it to spun up VMs around the world myself. Amazon Route 53 has been my first choice but recently I find that ClouDNS is not just a free DNS service as I always thought, they also offer Premium DNS. Duh.
So far, ClouDNS seems to tick all my boxes:
– Anycast DNS, with PoPs in Asia (Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan)
– Low TTL value (Would love to have as low as 1s, but 60s will do, as most recursive DNS does not respect a value lower than that anyway)
– DNSSEC support (Suck it Digicert DNSME for only providing DNSSEC on their $2100/yr plan)
– Super reasonable pricing (Premium M, 75 zones for only $54.45/yr, that’s a bargain)
– White-label support (Even with an option to upgrade to dedicated IPs and PTRs for only $25/month, damn)
One worry is that I did not find any documents mentioning the DNS propagation speed for ClouDNS’ zone records.
Will definitely be evaluating that and more as soon as I reach my last contracted year with DNSME 🙂