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Your DNS service is quite a good service. What are the chances of DynaDot introducing a fee-for-service DNS. Reason I ask is that for domain name extensions that you can not be the registrar such as .au .nz but to name a few.  

While it would need to have room for a few more 'A' host names (say 10) not much else would need to change from your current DNS service. Naturally I would make it only available to static IP's to avoid the overheads of Dynamic DNS hosting.

Further you could offer a DNS service that allows x amount of forward lookup zones. A good amount would be 10 zones (we all seem to own multiple domain names these days) with a limit of 100 'A' records across the 10 zones.

Basically - while you have free DNS services out there they do not offer the stability that DNS really needs

A good example would be DNSMadeeasy.com


[This post has been edited by e_h_rochedale south_au on Jan 11, 2007 8:54am.]

I only use them for backup (my main DNS I run myself, or through my professional hosts) and they have never been down when my DNS server has been so they are fine for that. But yes, if your running a business website dynadot (or any other DNS company that is run professionally) would be best.

As you say passable but most people with anything close to a business do not like passable - FreeDNS is good for small community websites but to me honest a 6 hour outage only 4 weeks ago is not good. FreeDNS even say 98% uptime is the target while serious users would want 99.8%+. Just .25% per annum amounts to 1 day over a whole year and outages comes generally in sizable blocks.

DNSmadeeasy have a great product - I use it currently - but their service is poor. I am hopeful that DynaDot can match the product and I find their service very good so I would be a winner.

Having said all that Raph, FreeDNS do give a good service where if the DNS went down for 3hours and this was not a problem for the end user I would recomend them as well. Of the free/Low contribution DNS services they are by far the best

I don't mean to steal potential business from dynadot (you're doing a great job by the way!) but if you are looking for backup DNS, I've never had a problem with a group called FreeDNS (http://freedns.afraid.org). You can use them as backup DNS, or even as primary DNS, and their free service is quite adequite for most things, although you can get a premium membership for even more features.

> Further you could offer a DNS service that allows x amount of forward
> lookup zones. A good amount would be 10 zones (we all seem to own
> multiple domain names these days) with a limit of 100 'A' records across
> the 10 zones.

I am not sure I understand your suggestion.  Could you please clarify?

As I run my own DNS servers I see things in Forward lookup zones (Windows DNS). Basically Bulk packs of 10 domains with upto say 100 'A' records shared betwwen them rather than 10 per domain. If you go to DNS Made Easy seee what they offer for DNS services. I think their Small business and Business memberships are the target markets.

It's a good money spinner and given that you already do domain DNS for free for have domains registered through you it is only a Hop-Skip and a jump away from selling DNS services. While I run my own DNS servers I am always on the lookout for good secondaries.

> Your DNS service is quite a good service. What are the chances of DynaDot
> introducing a fee-for-service DNS. Reason I ask is that for domain name
> extensions that you can not be the registrar such as .au .nz but to name a
> few.  

This is a good idea, though, it seems that we have already added this idea to our feature request list for consideration.

> While it would need to have room for a few more 'A' host names (say 10)
> not much else would need to change from your current DNS service.
> Naturally I would make it only available to static IP's to avoid the
> overheads of Dynamic DNS hosting.

Hmm, we will consider adding more subdomains since there seems to be a demand for it.

> Further you could offer a DNS service that allows x amount of forward
> lookup zones. A good amount would be 10 zones (we all seem to own
> multiple domain names these days) with a limit of 100 'A' records across
> the 10 zones.

I am not sure I understand your suggestion.  Could you please clarify?