This is one of the most solid and longest lasting services online. Have been using it for almost two decades I think and nothing's changed.
Why dns is a topic eludes me because they all forward to root hint servers.
Why doesn't everyone just use their IANA resolvers?
Their backup DNS service is great, so you can run your own DNS with just one server.
https://nic.eu.org/ is also very cool for getting a domain name if paying for one is a challenge.
https://nic.eu.org is very nice but I haven't been able to register a domain there for a long time now
This looks so much like https://dns.he.net/ that it seems to me it canāt be a coincidence. Is this a case of copying a well known design or is there more to it?
It's possible they are both descendants from XName: https://web.archive.org/web/20120625081138/http://source.xna...
Doesn't look that similar to me, they both just look a bit old.
The "portal" layout style was very popular on Web 1.0, reminds me of PHP-Nuke.
omg, invoking php-nuke brings me back. fun era (recent php2shell wild ride notwithstanding). Honestly it's more like web 1.5 - not straight up hand written html but no wild client side stuff either.
And yes, there absolutely was a "look" that's a product of the technology of the time - tables for design, limited styling / js support, php "components" that you could load and replace as part of your portal, and "themes".
> PHP-Nuke
There's a name I haven't heard in a while!
I wouldn't think much of it. It was a popular design trend for a while there; some just never updated. I don't blame them, it's fairly decent on readability and minimalism.
I am interested, but I have some questions that don't seem to be addressed in the about us page:
How well is continuation guaranteed?
What if someone buys them? Or the maintainer stops for whatever reason?
afraid.org has been there offering free DNS hosting since the year 2000, 26 years
Whilst it would be nice to know their contingency and continuity plans, I feel like their history is a better indicator of the future than just a bunch of feel-good words that you'd likely find a way to interpret pesssimisticly anyway.
Every once in a while, HN surfaces absolute gems like this. Bookmarked and thanks to esher!
So to get this straight this is just hosted DNS? Like Route53? They arenāt a registrar or anything?
So you could pay for hosted DNS and then use them as the name server and other DNS records for multiple domains that you have?
It is like Route53. However, you cannot buy domain names from FreeDNS.
You can use FreeDNS as a name server and manage domain name records, like A records, cname, and MX records. You can have a dynamic domain name too.
You can also obtain free sub domain names from those who use FreeDNS as the name server and offer free sub domain names.
Happy freeloader for something like 15 years, can recommend
I have a couple domains (notably BBS.io) with them for people to use as ddns sub domains. Pretty happy overall.
One of the 5,000+ premium members. I've been using them as a secondary and for dynamic dns since... I have no idea for how long but much further back than 2015 when I started using a password manager that keeps history, probably circa 2005.
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