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Post Incident Report for Partial DNS Outage on November 1st, 2020

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Announcing HTTPS Support for the DNSimple Redirector

Configure HTTPS redirects with our easy-to-use DNSimple Redirector and a certificate from your DNSimple account.

Announcing CDS/CDNSKEY Support

DNSimple now automatically generates CDS & CDNSKEY records for every DNSSEC signed zone.

Is DNSimple the Right Choice for My Business Domain?

Exploring our business offerings

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Announcing Two-Factor Enforcement for Accounts

We've released two-factor authentication enforcement for accounts to make using DNSimple even more secure for your domains.

Let's Encrypt Wildcard Certificates Are Here

Starting today you can leverage DNSimple certificate automation to issue Let's Encrypt wildcard certificates.

API v2: Zone Distribution Check

Announcing API v2 methods for checking the distribution of DNS zones.

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Technical reasons behind the ALIAS record

In this article I will try to explain the technical reason behind the ALIAS record and important limitations of the CNAME record you need to know.

Elapsed time with Ruby, the right way

Elapsed time calculations based on Time.now are wrong. Learn why they are wrong and how to fix them.

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Things to Know About Transferring a Domain

Here are a couple of things that you should know about before transferring a domain.

The Top DNS Servers And What They Offer

There are a lot of DNS Servers out there. We're looking at some of the top ones here and comparing their features and why some are chosen

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Using time tracking to improve your remote working habits

What we learned, individually, from our collective time tracking experiment.

How We Work as a Remote Team

Inspired by a recent blog post from Travis CI, I'd like to share details about how DNSimple team members work together without offices.