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A DNS hosting service is a service that runs Domain Name System servers. Most, but not all, domain name registrars include DNS hosting service with registration. Free DNS hosting services also exist. Almost all DNS hosting services are "shared"; except for the most popular Internet sites, there is no need to dedicate a server to hosting DNS for a single website. Many third-party DNS hosting services provide Dynamic DNS.
DNS hosting service is better when the provider has multiple servers in various geographic locations that minimize latency for clients around the world.
DNS can also be self-hosted by running DNS software on generic Internet hosting services.
Free DNS
Nowadays the large quantity of free services appears in Internet. In most cases they are not worse and sometimes even better than paid analogues. What free DNS service should include presently?
Certainly elements of management A, MX, CNAME, TXT, NS records of your domain zone should be included. Web forwarding services are included into a standard services kit of practically all free services. Various useful utilities and a lot of other things, all these functions free DNS has today.
You can think that free services can not have sufficient reliability, cannot be convenient enough for daily work and simply cannot provide for you due working capacity. Here you are mistaken. The majority of modern free DNS services are sponsored by large providers of a telecommunication service. Under the control of powerful corporations they develop according to modern global network development tendency.
The main aim of free of charge DNS services is to make Internet better and faster, to give for web designers all modern functions and abilities of making perfect web resources. On the opposite side paid services just have an aim of profit making.
Free DNS services always try to develop according to users needs. Frequently their servers are worldwide located to provide high speed of work, and also high reliability.
See also
External links
- DNS Providers in the Open Directory - Listings of providers of DNS services in the Google Directory.
- Dynamic DNS Providers in the Open Directory - Listing of providers of dynamic DNS services in the Google Directory.
- FreeDns.ws - Totally free domain name hosting.
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