DNS providers

[Michael Pope]

I've been looking for a good DNS provider (registrar & hosting) which
would allow me to transfer existing .com.au's and work with Heroku apps.
What are people using out there?

I've looked at
- DNS Made Easy
- domainregistration
- netregistry
- Godaddy
- Cloudflare
- Netlogistics
- iinet
- dnsimple
- mamothVPS
- enetica
- MelbourneIT

dnsimple looks really good, the only thing which stopped me from
swapping to them was they don't transfer .com.au's yet. I've got a few
domains with crazydomains and they don't handle CNAME for zone apex's
which is what Heroku apps need. I've tried iinet, MelbourneIT and I'm
not happy with both of those services. People keep mentioning Cloudflare
to me but best I can tell they are not a DNS registrar only DNS hosting.

Another option is to use someone like Crazydomains just for the
registrar and DNS Made Easy for the DNS hosting. How do people deal with
this when it comes Heroku apps?

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[Daniel Sabados]

http://dyn.com/ was recommended to us by Engine Yard.  Never had a problem since switching.  

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[Matthieu Stone]

I’ve used happily used Route 53 from Amazon for a number of years now: https://aws.amazon.com/route53/

[Ronny Haryanto]

CloudFlare recently announced https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-cloudflare-registrar/ — may or may not be what you're looking for, though. Their DNS hosting is good and probably one of the fastest around, and they support CNAME "flattening" for the root, which is great, I can just point example.com straight to an ELB or Heroku as a CNAME, and CF's DNS servers will respond with A records.

Ronny

On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 10:24 AM, Michael Pope <map...@gmail.com> wrote:

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[Rimian Perkins]

Hello!

Have a look at Amazon’s Route 53.

Cheers,
Rim

[Tate Johnson]

You don’t need to tie your registrar and DNS hosting together. Any DNS host you pick will give you a set of nameservers which you can point your domain to. Then you can configure whatever zones you need. I haven’t encountered a registrar that doesn’t let you update the nameservers.

AWS Route53, Cloudflare, or DNS Simple will do what you want. If you use Route53 take a look at Heroku’s documentation: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/route-53#naked-root-domain. If you use Cloudflare you can disable content acceleration for just DNS.

Cheers,
Tate

[James Healy]

On 10 March 2016 at 11:48, Tate Johnson <ta...@tatey.com> wrote:
> You don’t need to tie your registrar and DNS hosting together.

Depending on your domain requirements, it's often not possible to anyway.

Thanks to the mix of domains we require, we've ended up with one DNS
host (dnsimple) and 4 registrars (in preferred order: dnsimple,
domainname.edu.au, crazy domains and instra). It's a mess, but
manageable.

We're happy with dnsimple for hosting. It's a shame they can't
transfer in .com.au though. If they did, we would drop crazy domains
as a registrar.

James

[Pat Allan]

> On 10 Mar 2016, at 12:02 PM, James Healy <ja...@yob.id.au> wrote:
>
> We're happy with dnsimple for hosting. It's a shame they can't
> transfer in .com.au though. If they did, we would drop crazy domains
> as a registrar.

DNSimple are working on AU transfers - I alpha-tested the process with them a couple of months ago (wasn’t quite working then, but I should follow up to check where things are at now).

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Pat

[Phil Oye]

> We're happy with dnsimple for hosting. It's a shame they can't
> transfer in .com.au though. If they did, we would drop crazy domains
> as a registrar.

Actually, DNSimple will transfer .com.au domains, but it is a manual process. I’ve not done it myself (on my todo list), but I got the following email from them about it:

> The .AU registry has some particular processes, so we would have to manually start the transfer process for a .COM.AU domain for you.
>
> In order for us to start the transfer we require:
>
> - the domain name
> - current WHOIS details, i.e. the domain's exact registration details for the registrant, administrative and technical contact (name, company name, complete address, phone number and email address)
> - the domain's auth code.
>
> We can then start the transfer in our system and provide the registry with the auth code and the domain's contact details.
>
> The registry will compare the provided contact details with the information in their database. If the details match they will ask for a final authorization from the registrant by sending an email to the registrant's email address. The email will state "TPP Wholesale" as the new registrar, which is our upstream partner for .AU domains.
>
> You will need to confirm the transfer as described in that email in order for the transfer to proceed.

[Chris Raethke]

tl;dr iwantmyname.com for domains, cloudflare.com for DNS + extra stuffs

At Bugcrowd (crowd sourced security testing) we wanted to make sure we have rock solid domain registrar, DNS providers and other domain related services. So I spent a good amount of time researching who supports what etc.

From a registrar, the experience in registering domains was very important, as was supporting a decent range of TLDs so we can protect our identity. Iwantmyname have a really slick simple to use system, they are also a custom, so we know their system is very secure. As a bonus their prices are good.

From a DNS provider we wanted someone who is ahead of the curve when it comes to the latest and greatest from a feature and security perspective. Cloudflare are great for this, they can flatten APEX domains, and support DNSSEC. They also can do caching, security filtering and if you want to get super tricky you can run Railgun for even faster responses.

In addition to domain registrar and DNS provider you should be ensuring you have SPF + DKIM records for all your domains and then setup DMARC and use a service to capture the failures. For this we settled on dmarcian.com.

For anyone still reading we are using digicert.com for EV SSL certs.

Happy to go deeper for anyone interested.

Chris

[Steven Noble]

+1 for DNSimple for .com domains -- a great service with baked in Heroku support

have not yet tried it for .au domains

s.

[Michael Pope]

Thanks everyone for your recommendations. There are a lot of solutions
here but it mainly boils down to dnsimple, route 53 or cloudflare.

I'll try to get dnsimple to tranfer my domain it would be nice to have
the registrar and hosting together, failing that I'll use something like
crazydomains + dnsimple. Thanks for your help.

Phil, who did you speak to at dnsimple? I spoke to a Mak & Joseph from
dnsimple and they said it wasn't possible yet, maybe I need to speak to
the guy who suggested the manual procedure to you.

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[Phil Oye]

> On 11 Mar 2016, at 10:43 AM, Michael Pope <map...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Phil, who did you speak to at dnsimple? I spoke to a Mak & Joseph from
> dnsimple and they said it wasn't possible yet, maybe I need to speak to
> the guy who suggested the manual procedure to you.

Hi Michael,

I spoke to Melanie Baker back on 3 March 2015, so it is very possible that the information is well and truly out of date.

Cheers,
p.

[Michael Pope]

Ok, well keeping my DNS registrar and DNS hosting separate maybe a good
idea anyway.

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