Features

Register and Manage Domains with Terraform

Register and manage your domains with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.

Wilson Lin

What's New at DNSimple

Okta SSO, new name server sets, 500+ TLDs, and improved domain management APIs & redundancy.

Anthony Eden

DNSimple's New, Improved DNS Record Editor

Manage DNS records more easily with UI improvements, better validation, and improved error handling.

Guillermo Gutiérrez

Improving DNSimple's Domain Management APIs

Retrieve the status of your registrations and renewals from a dedicated API endpoint.

Ole Michaelis

Introducing Okta Single Sign-On

Managing your DNSimple team members is even easier with Okta Single Sign-On.

Dallas Read

Diversifying DNS for a More Resilient DNSimple

Diversifying our DNS edge to bring even more resilience to our anycast DNS.

Santiago Traversa

Now Supporting ECC for Let's Encrypt Certificates

Let's Encrypt certificates will be signed using Elliptic Curve Cryptography Private Keys for improved security and performance.

Javier Acero

Elliptic Curve Cryptography Support for Certificates

Announcing Elliptic Curve Cryptography support for certificates.

Néstor Salceda

Improving Validation Errors in API Clients

Announcing several improvements related to dealing with validation errors in our API clients.

Simone Carletti

Improving Delegation Changes in Secondary DNS and DNSSEC

We've recently improved delegation handling for both secondary DNS and DNSSEC.

Anthony Eden

Now Supporting IPv6 Endpoints for Primary and Secondary DNS Hosting

Provision IPv6 endpoints for your Primary/Secondary fault tolerant DNS operations.

Atanas Argirov

Webhook Suppression Management

Monitor and control your webhooks' health with the new clear suppression feature.

Néstor Salceda

Simplify DNSimple Access with Google Single Sign-On and Social Login

Managing your DNSimple team members is even easier with our new Google Identity Provider integration.

Anthony Eden

Announcing DNSimple integration with Hashicorp Consul

The DNSimple Network Infrastructure Automation (NIA) Consul integration automates DNS record provisioning in response to changes in the service mesh.

Ivan Bakalov

Introducing the DNSimple Netlify Connector

Connect your domains to Netlify simply and reliably. Our Netlify Connector automatically takes care of DNS setup and Netlify configuration for your Jamstack applications.

Anthony Eden

Introducing the new Rust REST API Client Library

How we chose and built our newest REST API in Rust.

Enrique Comba Riepenhausen

Introducing Domain Access Control

Use DNSimple's Domain Access Control to limit what each member can access on a per-domain or per-zone basis.

Anthony Eden

Introducing DNSimple's Terraform Provider

Use DNSimple's Terraform provider to efficiently manage your DNS.

Enrique Comba Riepenhausen

Announcing DNSSEC General Availability

DNSimple is moving our DNSSEC out of beta and into general availability.

Guillermo Gutiérrez

Announcing KEY-data support for DNSSEC

DNSimple now supports the KEY-data interface for notifying registries when zones are signed for DNSSEC.

Guillermo Gutiérrez

Introducing Our Developer Advocate & Two New Open-Source API Libraries

Introducing Enrique Comba Riepenhausen as our Developer Advocate, along with two new open-source API libraries - PHP and Python.

Enrique Comba Riepenhausen

Introducing the Heroku Connector

Our new Heroku Connector perfectly configures your domain's connection to Heroku.

Guillermo Gutiérrez

DNSimple Now Supports Secondary DNS Hosting

Configure DNSimple as your secondary DNS provider to improve your domain's availability and redundancy with AXFR zone transfers.

Ivan Bakalov

API v2: Introducing Domain Price Endpoints

Announcing API v2 methods for retrieving domain prices.

Carlos Ribeiro

EDNS Client Subnet (ECS) support for ALIAS records

Announcing EDNS Client Subnet (ECS) support for improved latency.

Atanas Argirov

API v2: Introducing New Endpoints for Transfer API

Announcing API v2 methods for retrieving and canceling domain transfers.

Carlos Ribeiro

Go API client 0.6x series, DNSControl, Terraform, and more

Go API client 0.6x series and updates on several existing integrations.

Simone Carletti

How To Auto-Import DNS

Auto-importing DNS using DNSimple.

Sebastian Hermida

Announcing HTTPS Support for the DNSimple Redirector

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

Luca Guidi

Is it DNSimple, eh?

Now and then we all need to flex our developer's muscles and build something fun and useful. Learn how to never miss if a website uses your favorite domain automation provider.

Ole Michaelis

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.

Ole Michaelis

Announcing CDS/CDNSKEY Support

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

Anthony Eden

Let's Encrypt Wildcard Certificates Are Here

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

Ole Michaelis

.SE and .AI domain registrations now available

You can now use DNSimple to register and manage .SE and .AI domains. Read on for details.

Anthony Eden

API v2: Zone Distribution Check

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

Luca Guidi

.APP and .PAGE domain registrations now available

Good news! You can now use DNSimple to register and manage .APP and .PAGE domains. Read on for details.

Anthony Eden

Expanding into Australia

We've expanded into the Australia region with our new Sydney datacenter.

Aaron Kalin

Announcing Let's Encrypt API Public Beta

You can now request, download, install, and renew a Let's Encrypt certificate via the DNSimple API.

Simone Carletti

Upcoming changes to domain expiration and notifications

We recently made some changes in the way we deal with expiration dates. In this post I'm going to explain the changes we introduced and how they affect you.

Simone Carletti

Revamping our referral program

A referral program is a powerful way to get new customers. We recently breathed new life into our referral program.

Laetitia Eden

Finding your next TLD

We revamped our top-level domain pages to make it easier to find the information that you are looking for.

Sebastian Hermida

An Overview of DNSimple's Custom Records

We provide specific custom records such as URL, ALIAS, and URL to simplify some of the DNS pain points.

Amelia Aronsohn

DNSSEC Beta Launch

Beta support for DNSSEC at DNSimple is here! Read on to see how to enable DNSSEC on your domains.

Anthony Eden

Manage your domains like a ninja with these few keyboard shortcuts

Find out how you can quickly access any resource with a few key presses.

Sebastian Hermida

Introducing CAA records

Let Certificate Authorities know if they are allowed to issue certificates for your domain with this new record type.

Anthony Eden

Introducing activity tracking

The new activity tracking feature will allow you to browse the history of all the things that happened in your DNSimple account.

Javier Acero

DNSimple API v2 is now Generally Available

Today we are making a big step towards providing services for domain management automation with the general availability of the latest generation of our domain management API.

Simone Carletti

Easier domain contact verification

We have implemented a new feature that alerts you when your domain is pending contact verification

Sebastian Hermida

Announcing Let's Encrypt Public Beta

The Let's Encrypt integration allows DNSimple customers to request a free certificate issued by the Let's Encrypt certification authority for any domain managed with DNSimple.

Simone Carletti

Announcing the Node.js API client

JavaScript joins Elixir, Go, and Ruby as the fourth language to have an official client for the version 2 of the DNSimple API.

Anthony Eden

Announcing Elixir API client

Elixir joins Go and Ruby as the third language to have an official client for the version 2 of the DNSimple API.

Javier Acero

API v2: announcing filtering and sorting

With API v2 in beta, we're releasing new features requested by our developers community. Today we announce filtering and sorting.

Luca Guidi

DNSimple Slack app

A quick and fun new way to register domains and to update your account right from your team's Slack channel.

Antoine Meunier

Announcing DNSound

Every wondered what your domains sound like?

Sebastian Hermida

Publish DNSimple events to a Slack channel

Strillone is service that listens to incoming webhooks from DNSimple, and publishes them to a Slack channel or other chat service.

Simone Carletti

Announcing DNSimple webhooks

With the new DNSimple webhooks, you can now track events happening inside your accounts, improve your integrations, and make managing your domains even easier.

Anthony Eden

Announcing DNSimple API v2 Beta

The new version of the DNSimple API (v2) is now available in Public Beta.

Simone Carletti

A new dashboard

Find, and easily manage all your domains across your accounts from one simple place.

Sebastian Hermida

DS Records for DNSSEC

Today we take our first step towards supporting DNSSEC by enabling DS record management for registerd domains.

Anthony Eden

Multi-year SSL certificates are here!

It's now possible to purchase or renew SSL certificates for more than one year.

Simone Carletti

Announcing SSL Installation Instructions for Azure

We've just launched a new set of instructions for installing SSL certificates on Microsoft Azure.

Joseph Caudle

New authenticator-compatible two-factor authentication

Today we are very happy to announce a complete overhaul of our 2-step verification system based on the TOTP specifications.

Simone Carletti

DNS Hosting per domain

With this new feature you can selectively enable/disable DNS hosting for a specific domain.

Simone Carletti

Multiple Accounts, Teams, New Plans and New Features

Today we are launching new features, including multiple account support and teams, as well as new plans with new features. We've been working on this for a while now, and we're excited to finally put in your hands. Read on for details.

Anthony Eden

The new face of the certificate page

We've just redesigned the domain certificate page to make it easier to see a certificate order, download and install an SSL certificate.

Simone Carletti

Customize your billing email

Now you can decide what email address DNSimple invoices will be sent to.

Javier Acero

Making secondary DNS configuration simple

We have simplified the setup of Secondary DNS by adding pre-populated providers.

Sebastian Hermida

Announcing Secondary DNS support

After several weeks of hard work we are very happy to announce that DNSimple supports Secondary DNS starting today.

Javier Acero

Enhancing SSL Security

We're always improving security at DNSimple. Here is what we did for our SSL setup.

Aaron Kalin

SSL certificate installation wizard

The new SSL certificate installation wizard will guide you throughout the setup of the certificate on your server.

Simone Carletti

Your domain management page has been redesigned

The domain manage page is your dashboard for everything about your domain. We're happy to introduce a new page that should make everything easier.

Sebastian Hermida

Yes, we SHA-2

All DNSimple certificates are now using the SHA-2 (SHA-256) hashing algorithm.

Simone Carletti

Disable Notifications on Expiring Domains

Getting notifications about domains you just want to expire about can be annoying. Now you don't need to see them anymore.

Joseph Caudle

Two Factor Authentication Support for API

API now supports Two Factor Authentication, any API call will now comply with the 2FA settings of your account.

Simone Carletti

PDF invoices now available

We have been working on our invoicing system a lot lately. Today we are finally releasing one of the most requested features: PDF invoices.

Javier Acero

DNSimple iOS 3.0 now available

I'm extremely excited to announce a new major version of the DNSimple iPhone application.

Simone Carletti

The Next Break Through in DNS Technology

Today we're introducing a new technology that revolutionizes DNS delivery. Read on to find out more about this amazing break-through.

Anthony Eden

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We have expanded our DNS hosting so it covers all new gTLDs and private domains.

Simone Carletti

Refreshing invoices

I've been silently working behind the scenes at DNSimple on the design of the app. Today I'd like to introduce the first of many improvements: refreshing the invoices we send.

Hans verschooten

Subscription Renewals Invoiced

Starting today we will send an invoice when your subscription is renewed, making it easier to track all of your DNSimple charges via invoices.

Anthony Eden

Announcing the Versioned API

Today we're marking an important milestone in our API development. We're officially announcing a new versioned API and a new dedicated API base URI.

Simone Carletti

New Services for the New Year

We've deployed support for two new services today and we've also improved the ALIAS record. Read on for details.

Anthony Eden

Resending an SSL Certificate Approval Email

You can now resend an SSL certificate approval email using the link in your certificate page.

Simone Carletti

Moving Domains within DNSimple

We often receive requests about moving domains from one DNSimple account to another. The good news is that you can accomplish this easily, without going through the domain transfer process.

Anthony Eden

Reset domain token from UI and API

Starting right now, you can reset the domain token from the application.

Simone Carletti

Contribute One-Click Services via a Github Pull Request

Suggesting a one-click service is now very simple. Fork our DNSimple Services project on Github, develop your service integration and issue a pull request.

Anthony Eden

New Resolution Status widget

We silently rolled a completed new version of the Resolution Status indicator with real-time results.

Simone Carletti

Record deletion confirmation

By popular demand, we added a confirmation dialog when trying to delete a record from the advanced editor.

Simone Carletti

Heroku Service - Specify Your App Name

Today we deployed a change to how the Heroku one-click service works. Heroku recently released their European region, and with that change they deprecated the "proxy" subdomain for Heroku apps. To make DNSimple's one-click service compatible with this change, we now require your Heroku app name, as it appears in your herokuapp.com subdomain. When you add Heroku just enter your app name part of the herokuapp.com domain and you should have an ALIAS for your apex domain and a CNAME for "www". You can always add or change these later.

Anthony Eden

Improving Visibility With System Records

Starting today all of those records which used to only be visible by querying our DNS servers will now be visible through the DNSimple site as System Records.

Anthony Eden

Simplify Your Accounting with Yearly Billing

By popular demand, you can now switch to yearly billing for your DNSimple subscription and benefit from 1 month of service for free.

Anthony Eden

Extended DNS Hosting to All IDN Domains

We're now supporting DNS hosting for all IDN TLDs.

Simone Carletti

Improved Renewal Notifications

Today we are happy to announce a brand new email notification system that makes it even easier to see what domains and certificates are nearing expiring, all in a single glance.

Simone Carletti

New Country TLDs Added

I'm happy to announce that we've added several new country-code TLDs for registration and transfer at DNSimple.

Anthony Eden

Domain Pagination

Today we shipped an update to our domain list page that adds domain pagination and improves the existing searching and filtering capabilities.

Simone Carletti

ALIAS records now respect the TTL

All ALIAS records will now respect their TTL value set at DNSimple.

Anthony Eden

New API documentation and Other Updates

Please welcome our new DNSimple API documentation.

Simone Carletti

Protect Your DNSimple Account with Two-Factor Authentication from Authy

Today we've launched two-factor authentication support in DNSimple to give you an extra level of protection against unwanted access to your account.

Anthony Eden

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 of performance enhancements too.

Anthony Eden

Introducing the POOL Record - A new virtual record providing a pool of CNAME records

I'm pleased to announce the general availability of a new virtual record type called POOL record, that lets you create multiple CNAME records on the same subdomain.

Anthony Eden

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:

Anthony Eden

Introducing the ALIAS Record - Naked Domain Aliasing that Works!

Today I'd like to introduce a new record type that we've added to make pointing to dynamic hosting services a little less painful.

Anthony Eden

Whois UI

DNSimple's WHOIS lookup interface allows you to lookup WHOIS information for a domain.

Anthony Eden

Advanced Editor v2 and New APIs

I'm happy to announce that the DNSimple Advanced Editor has gotten a refresh.

Anthony Eden

Statements by Email

Starting with the current billing cycle, all DNSimple customers will now receive a statement via email with details about charges made through their DNSimple accounts.

Anthony Eden

Pricing for More than 500 Domains

If you've been looking into using DNSimple for hosting your DNS and you have more than 500 names, we now have you covered. As of today, any Reseller customers will pay a smaller per domain for domain management when you exceed 100 domains.

Anthony Eden

API Enhancements and Fixes

I'm happy to announce that we've now made SSL certificate purchasing, sharing and vanity name servers enable/disable functionality available via the DNSimple API.

Anthony Eden

Vanity Name Servers and Record Notes

We've just rolled out two new features for DNSimple that we'd like to share with you.

Anthony Eden

Refer a Friend, Get Free DNS

As of today you can now get one month of free DNS service for each customer you refer to DNSimple when that customer activates their account. The person you refer also gets a free month in addition to the 30-day free trial they already get, effectively giving them free DNS for 60 days.

Anthony Eden

SSL Certificates and Lower Prices on Registrations

We've been hard at work here and have some exciting announcements.

Anthony Eden

Sharing Domain Management Responsibilities

We've released a new feature today to all DNSimple customers that provides a way for you to share management functionality with other DNSimple customers without sharing credentials for an account.

Anthony Eden

All of Your DNSimple Transactions in One List

Just in time for this year's tax season, you can now get a list of your transactions with DNSimple on the web site and show and print receipts for each charge transaction.

Anthony Eden

Announcing 'Services' and other UI Enhancements

We're very happy to announce the roll out of an improved DNSimple web interface today to all DNSimple customers. Staying true to our name, the updates to the web interface are all about making DNS simple. Here is a rundown of what has changed and how it will make your experience with DNSimple even better.

Anthony Eden

WHOIS Privacy Protection

I've just rolled out a new feature for DNSimple called WHOIS Privacy Protection. For DNSimple customers that register with us or transfer domains into our system we can now make your WHOIS information private by putting a third-party in between you and spammers. For $8.00 per year per domain your email address and physical address will no longer be shown in WHOIS output. Email will be routed to you through a proxy email address.

Anthony Eden

NAPTR and Domain Registration through the API with extended attributes

As of yesterday, DNSimple now supports NAPTR records and domain registration and transfer of TLDs that require extended attributes through the API.

Anthony Eden

Edit Domain Records

A new deployment of DNSimple has gone live, bringing with it the ability to edit records. Previously you had to delete the old record and add a new one in order to make a change, now you can simply click the Edit link and make the changes you need, save the record and the DNS servers will be updated.

Anthony Eden

DNSimple API Update - Manage Contacts

I've just pushed an update to the DNSimple API that adds support for listing, describing, creating and deleting contacts.

Anthony Eden

DNSimple API Update - Domain Registration and Transfer

I've just pushed out a release of DNSimple that updates the DNSimple API to add support for domain registration, domain transfer and a variety of template and template record manipulation actions.

Anthony Eden

Domain Registration and Transfer

DNSimple is now providing domain registration and transfer services to all of our customers.

Anthony Eden

Get Stronger Account Protection with Web Authentication (WebAuthn) Support

Introducing Name Server Sets

Introducing Notes for DNS Records

Register and Manage Domains with Terraform

What's New at DNSimple

DNSimple's New, Improved DNS Record Editor

Improving DNSimple's Domain Management APIs

Introducing Okta Single Sign-On

Diversifying DNS for a More Resilient DNSimple

Now Supporting ECC for Let's Encrypt Certificates

Elliptic Curve Cryptography Support for Certificates

Improving Validation Errors in API Clients

Improving Delegation Changes in Secondary DNS and DNSSEC

Now Supporting IPv6 Endpoints for Primary and Secondary DNS Hosting

Webhook Suppression Management

Simplify DNSimple Access with Google Single Sign-On and Social Login

Announcing DNSimple integration with Hashicorp Consul

Introducing the DNSimple Netlify Connector

Introducing the new Rust REST API Client Library

Introducing Domain Access Control

Introducing DNSimple's Terraform Provider

Announcing DNSSEC General Availability

Announcing KEY-data support for DNSSEC

Introducing Our Developer Advocate & Two New Open-Source API Libraries

Introducing the Heroku Connector

DNSimple Now Supports Secondary DNS Hosting

API v2: Introducing Domain Price Endpoints

EDNS Client Subnet (ECS) support for ALIAS records

API v2: Introducing New Endpoints for Transfer API

Go API client 0.6x series, DNSControl, Terraform, and more

How To Auto-Import DNS

Announcing HTTPS Support for the DNSimple Redirector

Is it DNSimple, eh?

Announcing Two-Factor Enforcement for Accounts

Announcing CDS/CDNSKEY Support

Let's Encrypt Wildcard Certificates Are Here

.SE and .AI domain registrations now available

API v2: Zone Distribution Check

.APP and .PAGE domain registrations now available

Expanding into Australia

Announcing Let's Encrypt API Public Beta

Upcoming changes to domain expiration and notifications

Revamping our referral program

Finding your next TLD

An Overview of DNSimple's Custom Records

DNSSEC Beta Launch

Manage your domains like a ninja with these few keyboard shortcuts

Introducing CAA records

Introducing activity tracking

DNSimple API v2 is now Generally Available

Easier domain contact verification

Announcing Let's Encrypt Public Beta

Announcing the Node.js API client

Announcing Elixir API client

API v2: announcing filtering and sorting

DNSimple Slack app

Announcing DNSound

Publish DNSimple events to a Slack channel

Announcing DNSimple webhooks

Announcing DNSimple API v2 Beta

A new dashboard

DS Records for DNSSEC

Multi-year SSL certificates are here!

Announcing SSL Installation Instructions for Azure

New authenticator-compatible two-factor authentication

DNS Hosting per domain

Multiple Accounts, Teams, New Plans and New Features

The new face of the certificate page

Customize your billing email

Making secondary DNS configuration simple

Announcing Secondary DNS support

Enhancing SSL Security

SSL certificate installation wizard

Your domain management page has been redesigned

Yes, we SHA-2

Disable Notifications on Expiring Domains

Two Factor Authentication Support for API

PDF invoices now available

DNSimple iOS 3.0 now available