List of managed DNS providers

This is a list of notable managed DNS providers in a comparison table. A managed DNS provider offers either a web-based control panel or downloadable software that allows users to manage their DNS traffic via specified protocols such as: DNS failover, dynamic IP addresses, SMTP authentication, and GeoDNS.

Provider Domicile # of PoPs IP Anycast IPv6 DNSSEC Platform GeoDNS SLA APIs
Akamai Edge DNS US +200[1] Yes Yes Yes  Proprietary Yes 100% REST[2]
Amazon Route 53 US 63[3] Yes Yes Yes  non-BIND Yes 100% REST
Azure DNS US Un­known Yes Yes No[4] Microsoft DNS Yes 100% REST
CDNetworks US 48[5] Yes No ?  BIND Compatible Yes 100% REST
Cloudflare US 200 [6] Yes Yes Yes[7]  Proprietary Yes 100% REST
DigitalOcean US Un­known ? Yes No  non-BIND No 99.99% REST[8]
Dyn US 18 Yes Yes ?  BIND Compatible Yes 100% REST/SOAP[9]
easyDNS Canada 25[10] Yes Yes Yes[11] Un­known Yes 100% REST
Google Cloud DNS US 12 Yes Yes Yes  non-BIND No 100% REST
No-IP US 102 Yes Yes ?  non-BIND No 100% REST
Telindus Belgium Un­known Yes Yes ?   non-BIND Yes 100% REST/SOAP
UltraDNS US 30 Yes Yes Yes  non-BIND Yes 100% REST/SOAP
Alibaba Cloud DNS Cayman Islands 20 Yes Yes Yes BIND compatible Yes 100% REST
Oracle Cloud DNS[12] US 18 Yes Yes No BIND compatible Yes 100% REST

See also

References

  1. ^ "Designing DNS for Availability and Resilience Against DDoS Attacks" (PDF).
  2. ^ "Akamai Developer and DevOps".
  3. ^ "AWS - Products and Services by Region".
  4. ^ "Azure DNS FAQ". Microsoft Docs.
  5. ^ "cdnetworks DNS server implantation". Archived from the original on 2013-04-25. Retrieved 2013-08-06.
  6. ^ "Cloudflare Network".
  7. ^ "Cloudflare DNSSEC Protection".
  8. ^ "DigitalOcean API reference".
  9. ^ "Dyn API Knowledge Base". Archived from the original on 2014-08-12.
  10. ^ "easyDNS Anycast DNS Nameservers". Archived from the original on 2011-05-14. Retrieved 2013-07-17.
  11. ^ "Set & Forget DNSSEC". easyDNS. Retrieved 18 August 2024.
  12. ^ "Oracle cloud revenue misses as competition intensifies". Reuters. 2021-03-10. Retrieved 2021-03-11.