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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.

Anthony Eden's profile picture Anthony Eden

Hosting Handshake domains with DNSimple

Introduction to the Handshake (HNS) project, a decentralized blockchain-based alternate DNS chain, and how you can use DNSimple to host HNS domains.

Ivan Bakalov's profile picture Ivan Bakalov

How to Avoid DNS Downtime

Increase performance, mitigate risk, and reduce DNS downtime with these steps.

Dallas Read's profile picture Dallas Read

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How we're using GitHub Actions to transform our error triaging workflow

We've started automating our triage process with GitHub Actions, resulting in great improvements.

How we modernized the legacy Javascript in our Rails app

We iteratively modernized our legacy Javascript improving the quality, stability, and developer-happiness of our code.

What Are Vanity Name Servers?

What a vanity name server is and why you should use one.

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Which TLD is Right for Me?

GDPR and WHOIS Privacy

Using Elixir in DNSimple's API - A Toolkit Roundup

Is DNSimple the Right Choice for My Business Domain?

Analyze Your Domains in Google Sheets

Why Your Financial Institution Should Use a .BANK

Using Structs to Facilitate Dependency Injection with Go

Speed up Dialyzer in CI - PLT caching done right

Our Journey to Chef's Inspec

Why Financial Institutions Migrate their .BANK Domains to DNSimple

Everything about DNS, you never dared to ask. A Primer.

Quick tips for practical Rubocop workflow

Presenting code in Keynote

Simple, Async, Map/Reduce queue for Ruby

Sign Git commits

Learn these 11 Tricks to get happier customers through amazing customer support

Building a distributed eventually consistent key-value store with DNS and Elixir

Check out our Chef & DNSimple Webinar

Introducing new speakers

From the physical world to the digital world

What you can do with the DNSimple API

Why aren't you using the Chef Accumulator Pattern?

Tales of a Chef Workflow: Keeping a tidy server

Debugging DNS

Writing open-source Chef cookbooks (part I)

Getting on stage – the definitive guide

The Silver Searcher, a better UNIX search tool

The Power of the Pull Request

When and how to use animations in slides

8 domain management tips for everyone

Why Is WHOIS Important?

Create beautiful slide decks

The Value of Exit Surveys

Conferences: the ultimate team building event?

Aligning Projects with Business Goals

The Not-Your-Job Jobs of DNSimple

Limiting the risks of SSL certificate mis-issuance

Learning to Fail Fast at DNSimple

How we organized our presence at CodeMash 2017

Taking a vacation from writing code to write more code

Secondhand Knowledge

Crafting a Peer Review Process for a Distributed Team

The idiomatic challenges of working for an English spoken, American company

How we organize our team meeting

Snapping a Polaroid Picture of Our Marketing Efforts

Redundancies in your domain name services

Announcing DNStudy

Understanding ICANN Accreditation

The Bullet Journal: when reliability and practicality outweigh technology

Lessons learned from growing a small business

The Three R's of Domain Names

The cavernous caveats of a digital nomad on the vanlife

On remote working and finding a co-working space

The story of How DNS works

Redirects with HTTPS

Our open source Chef cookbooks

The journey of DNSimple's first apprentice

Workflows in the wild – how we reinvented our onboarding emails using Drip workflows

Using multiple accounts to segment the business

OMG Thursday (aka Documentation Day)

WTF Thursday (aka Bug Squashing Day)

Common DNS records and their uses

Why and How to Use Google's Public DNS

Scaling UIs

Should you keep your DNS management and domain registration together?

What's in a DNS response?

The benefits of using a managed DNS provider

Top DNS Lookup Tools

How we support our customers at DNSimple

The Top DNS Servers And What They Offer

Technical challenges behind the Secondary DNS

Supporting GitHub Student Developer Pack and Global Day of Code Retreat

Don't Lose Business - Transfer Your Domain Names Without Downtime

How CodeShip.io Continuously Deploys DNS Records

DevOps and Chef at DNSimple

Troy Hunt on Moving to DNSimple

Let's Talk About Security

Understanding IO Renewal Policies

Ignite Talk from 2011: Everything You Need to Know About DNS in Five Minutes

Things to Know About Transferring a Domain

GoDaddy, SOPA and You

DNS Simplified: SPF Records

Preparing Domains in GoDaddy for Transfer Out

DNS Simplified: MX Records

DNS Simplified: CNAME Records

DNS Simplified: A Records