Last year I gave a talk at Ignite Boulder titled: “DNS in 5 Minutes”. I’ve been remiss in not sharing this, so here you go.
Remember, DNS can be fun too.
DNSimple iPhone App v2 is Now Available
Thanks to the hard work of Florin T. Patrascu, DNSimple now has a brand new version for its iPhone app, and it’s awesome. With version 2.0 you can now register and transfer domains right in the app. It also possible to manage all of your various record types now as well and has a bunch…
POOL: A new virtual record providing a pool of CNAME records
Following up on the ALIAS record, I’m pleased to announce the general availability of a new virtual record type: the POOL record. The POOL record type lets you create multiple CNAME records on the same subdomain. On each request our authoritative name server will serve up one of the CNAME records randomly. Using our API…
Retiring old ns4.dnsimple.com IP address
On April 10th we will be retiring the old IP address for ns4.dnsimple.com. We’ve already moved over all DNSimple customers who use ns4.dnsimple.com directly, as well as customers who use a vanity name server where the domain is registered through us. The only remaining name servers to be updated are vanity name servers that are…
How The ALIAS Virtual Record Works
Late last year we introduced the ALIAS virtual record type at DNSimple. Since then we’ve had numerous people ask us how we implemented the functionality. While we are always making incremental changes, here is an overview of how it works: When one of our authoritative name servers receives a request for an A record, CNAME…
Announcing the DNSimple Community Site
Hey everyone Robert here. It’s been a while since we did a blog post and it isn’t because we’ve been lazy. Anthony and Darrin have been doing an awesome job continuing to make DNSimple a solid and robust product as well as providing top notch support. Another huge thanks to everyone that chose to vote…
Post-mortem for Name Server Performance Degradation
Today all of our name servers experienced performance degradation that in turn caused customer sites to fail to resolve. This was especially evident to customers who are using our ALIAS record type. The source of the issue was a malformed TXT record that ended up getting published out to the name servers. This malformed record…
Things to Know About Transferring a Domain
Transferring a domain from one registrar (like GoDaddy) to another (like DNSimple) can be a scary thing. You have domain names that you want to make sure stay operational during the transfer and you want to know that your domain will be safe. I’ve put together this blog post to help clarify how the transfer…
GoDaddy, SOPA and You
GoDaddy’s statement before congress regarding SOPA was published yesterday and suffice to say that the negative response has been overwhelming. That’s exactly how it should be too. We at DNSimple oppose SOPA and any attempt by the US government to try to rule the Internet. DNSimple vehemently opposes any attempts to censor the Internet or to provide the…
Introducing the ALIAS Record
Most of the times DNS does what you expect it to do with little or no fuss (well, ok, sometimes with a little more fuss) but we strive to make DNS as easy as possible at DNSimple. Today I’d like to introduce a new record type that we’ve added to make pointing to dynamic hosting…