Updates - DNSimple Blog

Expanding Data Centers for Fast, Authoritative DNS

Announcing support for two new European data centers in Frankfurt and Paris.

Anthony Eden

How We Simplified Your Domain Management in 2021

Highlights of our favorite new features and enhancements DNSimple released in 2021

Anthony Eden

Let's Encrypt R3 Intermediate Certificate Expiration (30 September 2021)

Updates regarding the upcoming Let's Encrypt R3 intermediate certificate expiration and how to prepare for the change.

Simone Carletti

.AU Registry Requirements and Renewals

Enforcement of .AU registry requirements, their effect on auto-renewals, and how we're addressing it.

DeAndre Harris

Introducing the new Java API Client Library

Our new Java API Client Library is now in beta - available on GitHub and as a Maven artifact.

Guillermo Gutiérrez

SSL Certificates Validity Decreasing to One Year

Beginning August 14, 2020, all new Sectigo certificated will be issued with a maximum validity of one year.

Simone Carletti

Celebrate 10 Years with a Free DNSimple T-Shirt

Get a free limited-edition t-shirt featuring the characters of howdns.works and howhttps.works with any new yearly subscription to DNSimple.

Anthony Eden

Introducing the C# API Client Library for .NET

Developers interested in integrating the DNSimple application into their .NET systems now have an official DNSimple C# client.

Anthony Eden

Sectigo Root Certificate Expiration Issue

The complete review of the Sectigo Root certificate expiration issue, including incident timeline, DNSimple response and DNSimple future actions.

Simone Carletti

Supporting Let's Encrypt & Virtual Conferences

Making the Internet better by supporting Let's Encrypt & sponsoring virtual conferences

Anthony Eden

Advancing Privacy on the Web with Let's Encrypt™

Launching our 10th anniversary campaign to help Let's Encrypt

Anthony Eden

We Could All Use Some Confetti Right Now

DNSimple is ten years old this year and that's something to celebrate.

Anthony Eden

Issuing New Certificates to Address Let's Encrypt CAA Rechecking Bug

DNSimple will request new Let's Encrypt certificates for all certificates issued after January 1, 2020 that are impacted by the announced CAA rechecking bug.

Anthony Eden

Sponsoring Team Voltage for the Houston FIRST Championships

Our local high school robotics team is heading to Houston for the FIRST Championships, and we're going along for the ride.

Anthony Eden

Wishing You a Happy & Healthy 2019!

Thank you for an awesome 2018. All of us here at DNSimple look forward to bringing you even more in 2019.

Anthony Eden

GDPR at DNSimple

The General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, goes into effect this week. Find out what we're changing to help customers comply with the new regulations.

Anthony Eden

Recap: Ruby Unconference Hamburg 2018

A recap of the Ruby Unconf in Hamburg which was debuting the first weekend in May.

Ole Michaelis

API v1 Shutdown: Last notice for May 10 and May 31

On May 10 we will shutdown the API v1 for 4 hours. On May 31, 2018 we will permanently shut down the API v1.

Simone Carletti

Welcome Corey Haines

Corey Haines joins the DNSimple team from Chicago.

Anthony Eden

Welcome Andrew Rabbitt

We have a new team member! Welcome Andrew Rabbitt to the DNSimple team.

Anthony Eden

API v1 Shutdown Notice

On May 31, 2018 we will permanently shut down the API v1. Any API v1 integrations will no longer work.

Simone Carletti

Conference recap: fstoco 2017

We've been at Canada's one and only Fullstack Toronto, a *pretty good* conference in one of the most beautiful cities in Northern America. Here is our highlight reel.

Ole Michaelis

More affordable Whois Privacy prices

Effective immediately, we've decreased the price for the whois privacy service from $8/year to as low as $2/year.

Simone Carletti

Conference recap: code.talks 2017

We've been to one of the biggest language-agnostic conferences in Europe. Here's our best of.

Ole Michaelis

Welcome Maria Munuera!

Today I welcome Maria Munuera to the DNSimple team.

Anthony Eden

Uniregistry TLD price increases

Starting September 1st we'll adjust the domain registration, tranfer, and renewal prices for several TLDs, as a result of registry price increase.

Simone Carletti

DNCrew ChefConf 2017 Wrapup

We here at DNSimple love the chef community and it's heartwarming to be reminded how much they love us back.

Amelia Aronsohn

Our commitment to Domain Management Automation

At DNSimple we truly believe in automation, here's some of our future plans.

Simone Carletti

New Chef Cookbook Release

We've re-written our Chef Cookbook for Chef 12 and 13 compatibility and to use our domain management API v2.

Aaron Kalin

CentralNic is sunsetting several second-level .COM TLDS

CentralNic has discontinued a number of second-level TLDs they offer, including .AR.COM, .GB.COM, .HU.COM, .KR.COM, .QC.COM, .NO.COM, .SE.COM, .UY.COM.

Anthony Eden

Terraform 0.9 and DNSimple API v2

Terraform 0.9 has been released, and it contains important updates to the DNSimple Provider.

Simone Carletti

Welcome Ole Michaelis

Ole joins DNSimple helping with all things software.

Anthony Eden

Changes to browser HTTPS warnings in Firefox and Chrome

Firefox and Chrome are now strengthening their warnings, flagging HTTP sites with forms as insecure. Here's how you can avoid the issue.

Amelia Aronsohn

ChefConf 2016 Wrapup

Discussing the experience of the DNSimple team at ChefConf 2016.

Amelia Aronsohn

Large redesigns and big rebrandings

We are releasing big visible updates to our UI and we launched a new logotype to match what's coming up this year.

Sebastian Hermida

Announcing DNSimple Ruby Gem v3

After the beta release of the version 2 of our API we have updated the official Ruby client to support the latest version.

Javier Acero

DNSimple at RubyDay 2015

A short coverage of the RubyDay 2015 conference in Italy.

Simone Carletti

DNSimple April 2016 Team Meetup Recap

In April 2016, the DNSimple team got together in Pomas, France for our team meetup. Here's what happened.

Anthony Eden

DNSimple at RubyConf.PH 2016

A short coverage of the RubyConf Philippines 2016 conference in Manila.

Simone Carletti

Welcome Laetitia Eden

Laetitia joined the DNSimple team officially in January! Laetitia is in France and is working on customer onboarding and experience.

Anthony Eden

Welcome Luca Guidi

Luca joins the DNSimple team from Rome, he has been working on the API and he created the Hanami Ruby framework.

Simone Carletti

DNSimple Team Retreat in Avignon, August 2015

Summary of the 5th DNSimple team retreat held in Avignon at the end of August, 2015.

Simone Carletti

Anthony's talk at So Coded 2015

Mr Eden was in Hamburg earlier this Summer to drop knowledge at SoCoded 2015.

Antoine Meunier

Welcome Mak Arnautovic

Mak joins the DNSimple team as our first DevOps Apprentice

Aaron Kalin

Welcome Antoine Meunier

Antoine joins the DNSimple team from Montreal to tackle customer acquisition.

Anthony Eden

Announcing Zone Vision, A New Tool for Inspecting DNS Zones

Announcing our new web service for inspecting DNS zones and finding potential issues. Read on to see what Zone Vision can do for you.

Anthony Eden

5 Years of DNSimple

5 years ago, today, the first commit for DNSimple was recorded in git.

Anthony Eden

Olympic Hopeful Antoine Meunier and DNSimple Team Up

Late last year I sat down with Antoine Meunier, 2014 canoe-kayak US champion and 2016 olympic hopeful, and over burittos we agreed to a sponsorship deal. Read on to find out more.

Anthony Eden

DNSimple at TropicalRuby 2015

A short coverage of the TropicalRuby 2015 conference in Recife.

Simone Carletti

Welcome Sebastian Hermida

Sebastian joined the DNSimple team a few weeks back. Read on to find out a bit about him.

Anthony Eden

API v0 end of life and API v1 2FA timelines

On October 31st, 2014 the API v0 will be shutted down and two-factor authentication for v1 will be enabled by default.

Simone Carletti

SHA-2 and DNSimple

We're serious about improving security and you should be too. Here's our plan for issuing SHA-2 signed certificates

Joseph Caudle

Migrating away from the old Heroku legacy routing layer

Heroku is closing their legacy routing system. For the new routing system you'll need a DNS provider that supports ALIAS records.

Jacobo García López de Araujo

Welcome Joseph Caudle

Joseph joins the DNSimple team from Indianapolis and will bring his development skills to bear on the DNSimple app.

Anthony Eden

Switching from Authorize.net to Stripe

Switching from one payment provider to another is no small task, but it is possible. In this post I will explain how we did it.

Anthony Eden

Unicast Name Servers to Shut Down

If you use vanity name servers you should read this as you may need to make changes at your domain registrar.

Anthony Eden

Welcome Javier Acero

Javier Acero joined the DNSimple team a few weeks back. Read on to find out a bit about him.

Anthony Eden

Heartbleed and Getting New Keys and Certificates

Due to the Heartbleed SSL vulnerability, it's a good idea to replace your SSL keys and certificates once you've patched the vulnerability.

Anthony Eden

Heartbleed Vulnerability Update

How DNSimple is reacting in front of the just discovered SSL Heartbeat vulnerability

Anthony Eden

Jacobo García joins the DNSimple Team

Jacobo García joins the DNSimple team to work on our infrastructure from European time zones. Read on to find out a bit about Jacobo.

Anthony Eden

Services vs Templates

Today we are taking one step further in the separation between services and templates by officially removing standard templates in favor of services.

Simone Carletti

Welcome Aaron to DNSimple!

Aaron Kalin joined the DNSimple team to help with all things infrastructure. Read on to find out a bit about Aaron.

Anthony Eden

Improved support site

We updated our support site, leaving KBSimple in favor of a static site generator.

Simone Carletti

Out with the old and in with the new

In the spirit of 'out with the old and in with the new', we're launching our redesigned blog and a new status page today.

Anthony Eden

Happy New Year from the DNSimple Team

Happy New Year! As 2013 draws to a close, we would like to express our gratitude for your ongoing support. We've experienced an extraordinary year of growth.

Anthony Eden

Anycast for Everyone

As of yesterday, December 27th, we've replaced our Unicast servers with Anycast. All DNSimple customers now have access to our Anycast network at no additional charge.

Anthony Eden

PSA: New Rules for Domain Name Registrants Starting January 2014

Starting on the 1 January, 2014, a change in the rules for email addresses on your domain registrant information may cause your web site and email to be taken offline if you're not careful.

Anthony Eden

Scheduled maintenance (Sunday, December 1 at 10AM Pacific)

We have scheduled a one hour maintenance window beginning Sunday, December 1st at 10 AM Pacific time (1800 UTC).

Darrin Eden

Scheduled maintenance (Sunday, September 8 at 10PM Pacific)

We have scheduled a one hour maintenance window beginning Sunday, September 8 at 10 PM Pacific time (0500 UTC).

Darrin Eden

Keyboard Shortcuts

When you use a site on a regular basis it is nice to have keyboard shortcuts to make navigation easy. A week ago we added support to DNSimple for various keyboard shortcuts to make your life easier. Here is a short explanation on how to use them and how we implemented them.

Anthony Eden

Scheduled maintenance (June 30th)

We're moving our write enabled Postgres cluster to a new data center. As such we've scheduled a one hour maintenance window starting at 8am Pacific time (1500 UTC) on Sunday, June 30. The DNSimple app and API will be unavailable for roughly twenty minutes.

Darrin Eden

Application maintenance window (May 15)

We have scheduled a one hour maintenance window beginning at 6pm Pacific time on Wednesday, May 15 (Thursday, May 16, 2013 at 0100 UTC). This will be used to update network routers at each of DNSimple's data centers to increase overall availability. We expect the DNSimple application and redirection service to each be unavailable for less than five minutes. Name service will not be affected. We apologies for any inconveniences this may cause our customers.

Darrin Eden

Announcing Advanced Editor v1 end of life

Today we're officially deprecating our advanced editor v1.

Simone Carletti

Application maintenance window (April 21st)

In order to update several low level components of our software stack we have scheduled a maintenance window beginning Sunday, April 21 at 0400 UTC (Saturday, April 20th at 9PM Pacific time). It will remain open for two hours. We expect the DNSimple application and API to be unavailable for less than twenty minutes. Name service will not be affected. We apologize for any inconveniences this may cause our customers. Updates will be posted to our Twitter feed.

Darrin Eden

Advancing DNS Into the 21st Century

Modern web applications benefit from fast DNS responses. DNS response times may still add anywhere from 10s to 100s of milliseconds to your applications overall latency. DNS providers are constantly working to reduce lookup times using technology such as caching and the use of BGP protocols. Even web browser makers like Google have joined in with fast public resolvers and even improvements in web browsers. You may have already heard of this term: pre-fetching. Well we've gone one step further…

Anthony Eden

NS3 IP Address is Changing

We will be moving NS3 from its current IP address to a new IP address.

Anthony Eden

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.

Anthony Eden

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.

Anthony Eden

DNSimple acquires RoboDomain, Inc.

We are pleased to announce that RoboDomain Inc. is now a part of DNSimple!

Anthony Eden

New DNSimple Knowledge Base

DNSimple has a new Knowledge Base, available today. The knowledge base has questions and answers about DNS, domains, SSL certificates and more. We've tried to do our best to provide useful answers that can help beyond DNSimple.

Anthony Eden

Retiring old ns4.dnsimple.com IP address

On April 10th we will be retiring the old IP address for ns4.dnsimple.com.

Anthony Eden

DNSimple Maintenance Sunday, September 18th

This Sunday, September 18th, 2011, we will be performing a short maintenance on the DNSimple web site and API server. This maintenance will take approximately 5 to 10 minutes during which the web site and API will be unavailable.

Anthony Eden

DNSimple Service Level Agreement

We know how important DNS is to you. Whether you have selected DNSimple because of the easy to use domain management and registration or because of our comprehensive API or because you know that we care deeply about providing an awesome DNS and domain registration service, we want you to be confident that we will also work diligently to keep your DNS service stable and operational so you don't have to worry about it.

Anthony Eden

Automatically updating your IP with DNSimple

Jason Seifer has a simple bash script that you can use to discover your current IP address and then use the DNSimple API to update an A record. Awesome!

Anthony Eden

ns3.dnsimple.com and ns4.dnsimple.com

As of today we've added two additional NS names to the name server names you can and should use for domains hosted with DNSimple.

Anthony Eden

DNSimple Maintenance

The DNSimple web site will be taken offline tonight for a short maintenance. DNS resolution should not be affected, although new records make take a few minutes longer than normal to show once the system is reactivated. We will post updates here as they become available. Thank you for your patience.

Anthony Eden

DNSimple Knowledge Base

We've begun work on the DNSimple Knowledge Base. If you have questions about DNS in general or about DNSimple's offerings, please contact us and we'll answer your questions in the Knowledge Base. We look forward to hearing from you.

Anthony Eden

From Beanstalkd to Resque

Yesterday I switched over DNSimple from a home grown background processing solution based on beanstalkd and custom code for handling queue messages as jobs to one using Resque.

Anthony Eden

Welcome to the DNSimple Blog

Given all of the awesome stuff that keeps coming out for DNSimple, I've decided that I need to be able to write longer posts.

Anthony Eden