By popular demand, you can now switch to yearly billing for your DNSimple subscription and benefit from 1 month of service for free. To switch to yearly billing: log into and go to https://dnsimple.com/account . There you will see a button to Switch to Yearly Billing. When you make the switch you will automatically be…
2012 in Review
As we close out 2012, I’d like to take a moment to reflect a bit on the year that is about to end. We started the year with just over 2000 customers, and ended the year with more than 5000. We have just shy of 40,000 domains in our system, 15,000 of which are registered…
Extended DNS Hosting to All IDN Domains
We’re now supporting DNS hosting for all IDN TLDs.
Planned System Maintanence, January 7th, 2013
We will be disabling the DNSimple web application and API starting at 6:30 AM UTC January 7th, 2013 for approximately 1 hour for a planned system upgrade. We will be posting updates on Twitter during this period if the maintenance window needs to be extended. No DNS service will be affected during this maintenance window,…
Improved Renewal Notifications
Today we are happy to announce a brand new email notification system.
New Country TLDs Added
I’m happy to announce that we’ve added several new country-code TLDs for registration and transfer at DNSimple. The new TLDs we’ve added are: com.au, net.au, org.au es, com.es, org.es, nom.es ch li fr pe, org.pe, nom.pe, com.pe, net.pe Please let us know if you have any issues during registration or transfer for these newly supported TLDs…
Domain Pagination
Today we shipped an update to our domain list page that adds domain pagination and improves the existing searching and filtering capabilities.
ALIAS records now respect the TTL
This is just a quick note to everyone using ALIAS records. All ALIAS records will now respect their TTL value set at DNSimple. The default TTL is 1 hour but you can change it to a lower value if you would like. This is different than the previous setup where the TTL was pulled from…
New API documentation and Other Updates
Revamped API documentation At DNSimple we believe that the API is an important part of what we offer. Most of our services are accessible either via web interface and every day hundreds of users manage their domains with our iPhone app or third party tools based on the API. Until now our API documentation has…
DNSimple acquires RoboDomain, Inc.
We are pleased to announce that RoboDomain Inc. is now a part of DNSimple! Simone Carletti, the co-founder of RoboDomain and the creator of the Ruby Whois library, is joining the DNSimple team to help make life even simpler for DNSimple customers. Simone’s software engineering talent and comprehensive knowledge of the domain system will help…