Goodbye 2025, Hello 2026

As we close out 2025, I'd like to share with you a recap of our year at DNSimple. Over the past year, we've made a lot of improvements and adjustments and implemented some helpful feedback from our customers.

You'll notice major enhancements across the board, from improved account navigation and invoice filtering to new security features like zone verification and CAA record tags. We've also expanded our Enterprise offerings with digital wallets, bulk DNS updates, and Microsoft Entra SSO, while continuing to make DNSimple more accessible through video guides and educational content.

Let's take a quick look at what we've improved, simplified, and added. Click the links in any of the sections below to learn more. If you're not using DNSimple yet, find the right plan for you, and give all these features and more a try free for 30 days.

Account management improvements

Over the past year, we've made some meaningful improvements to how you navigate and manage your DNSimple accounts, making it faster and more intuitive to work with multiple accounts and locate important information.

Account switching is now faster and more user-friendly, with accessibility improvements to make it easier to use for all customers. Get more details in this post.

We've also enhanced multi-account management to consolidate key account data, streamline communication, and provide a unified interface for managing multiple contracts. This gives Enterprise and Reseller customers more scalable, secure, and organized domain and DNS management. Explore multi-account management in this article.

Invoice filtering has been improved to provide more effective and reliable access to invoices with auditing, reconciliation, and compliance in mind. You can now quickly locate specific invoices within DNSimple using customizable search criteria and filters, significantly reducing time spent manually hunting through billing records. Learn more about invoice filters.

Security and compliance

At DNSimple, security and standards compliance are two of our top priorities. We've rolled out several important features to help keep your domains safe and compliant.

As part of DNSimple's ongoing commitment to enhancing our security, we've introduced a zone verification process. Now when you add a zone to DNSimple, we may require you to verify ownership of the corresponding domain. Preventing DNS takeover not only safeguards your domains, it helps ensure a more secure internet for all. Read more about preventing DNS takeovers and the verification process.

We've also made improvements to domain delegation that limit room for error and simplify the process to delegate to DNSimple's name servers. You'll no longer see Manual Secondary DNS as an option. Edit delegation (aka change name servers) is now set up to prevent errors, and Outbound Secondary DNS (aka Secondary DNS as Primary) and vanity name servers check the name servers the domain is delegating to to prevent breaking the domain's resolution. Read more in this post.

Finally, we've added support for registering and transferring .Bank and .Insurance domains in DNSimple. These exclusive domains help financial and insurance institutions stand apart from the competition while providing customers with peace of mind through multiple levels of verification and security. DNSimple ensures full compliance with all registry requirements, including DNSSEC signing, TLS encryption, and proper name server configuration. With our expert technical support and simplified registration process, institutions can confidently manage these TLDs in one place. Learn more about registering and managing .Bank and .Insurance domains.

Enterprise features and automation

For our Enterprise customers, we've added powerful new tools to simplify day to day operations and improve efficiency with automation.

Enterprise plan customers can now add funds for ongoing fees like renewals, registrations, transfers, and SSL certificates to their digital wallets automatically. You can set a limit and replenish your wallet as needed, ensuring you have the funds needed at all times to power your domain and DNS services. Read more about digital wallet replenishment in our support documentation.

We wanted to improve efficiency when updating records through the API, and mitigate the need for individual API calls for each record when managing large or complex DNS configurations. With a new API endpoint, we make it easier and faster to manage DNS records at scale. Available to customers on our Enterprise plan. Read more about bulk DNS updates.

Enterprise customers can now use Microsoft Entra as a single sign-on (SSO) provider. Using an SSO provider simplifies the onboarding and login experience for you and your team and helps you manage risk at scale. Learn more about Entra SSO.

One of our biggest goals at DNSimple is to make your experience as consistent as possible, so we updated our vanity name server web user experience to ensure that it more closely resembles the one provided by the API. Read more about vanity name server improvements.

Modern standards and Infrastructure as Code

The DNSimple team has been working to bring significant improvements to our underlying DNS architecture but also introduce the idea of managing your domains as you do your code base.

We discontinued support for the dedicated SPF record type (RR type 99) and transitioned to SPF records defined exclusively as TXT records, following the recommendations established in RFC 7208. This change brings DNSimple in line with modern SPF standards and eliminates any potential confusion between the two record types. Read more about discontinuing SPF record type.

DNSimple is currently the only provider offering complete domain lifecycle management in Terraform. This includes domain registration, renewal configuration, DNSSEC enablement, transfer lock management, delegation, and all the operational aspects of actually owning a domain, not just hosting its DNS.

Managing domains and DNS with Infrastructure as Code helps organizations meet compliance requirements for ISO 27001, SOC 2, and other frameworks. It provides access control, change management, configuration standards, asset inventory, segregation of duties, and point-in-time state verification. The DNSimple Terraform provider makes this possible with full domain lifecycle management. Learn more about domain compliance with DNSimple.

Educational content, events, and community

We continue to create a video series on some of our most popular support articles. You can learn more about how A records work, common DNS records, the differences among A, CNAME, ALIAS, and URL records, and what an SSL subject alternative name is. We've produced more of these over the last months — subscribe to our YouTube channel for all the latest.

We've also released an amazing webcomic that follows in the footsteps of howdns.works and howhttps.works that explains howdnssec.works — don't miss it.

We've been recording a lot of podcasts during 2025 (visit dnsimple.com/podcast) and sponsored incredible events like Xo Ruby, MicroConf Istanbul, CloudFest, DevOps LA, and ElixirConf Orlando.

We've tried to be present for the community and give back to important open source projects that mean a lot to us like Erlang Foundation, RubyGem, Let's Encrypt, and Linux Foundation.

And we had two incredible team retreats in Hollywood, Florida and Lake Tahoe, Nevada/California.

Help us Make DNSimple Even Better

As we wrap up 2025, we're already planning for the first quarter of 2026 and beyond, and we're looking for ideas and feedback from you, our customers, about what you'd like to see. If you're interested in contributing your suggestions for our 2026 roadmap, please reach out to me directly or through our support channels. We can schedule an interview so we can incorporate your ideas into what we're building.

Want to stay abreast of changes through next year? Find the latest from DNSimple on the Features page of our blog, and never miss a new release. Finally, with all the updates we've been rolling out, now is the perfect time to sign up for DNSimple and give us a try free for 30 days.

Thank you for a wonderful year, and I look forward to talking with as many of you as possible in 2026!

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Anthony Eden

I break things so Simone continues to have plenty to do. I occasionally have useful ideas, like building a domain and DNS provider that doesn't suck.