DNS Services for a registrar

Fri Aug 12 20:24:52 UTC 2016

Right -- we could do it, though it would be a first for us.

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Justin Paine
Head of Trust & Safety
CloudFlare Inc.
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On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 1:17 PM, Filip Hruska <fhr at fhrnet.eu> wrote:

> Even for registrars?
>
> Because OP's question was
> > We need to provide DNS services for domains we offer as a registrar.
>
> Best Regards,
> Filip
>
>
> On 12.8.2016 22:11, Justin Paine via NANOG wrote:
>
>> I won't push further than this -- but it seems a bit silly not to
>> mention that CloudFlare provides free AnyCast DNS. You can elect not
>> to even use any of our caching if you just want to use us for DNS.
>>
>> J
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>> On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 12:24 PM, Peter Beckman <beckman at angryox.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> If there are other metrics in which to measure DNS speed, availability
>>> and
>>> redundancy, I'd love to seeing them. I have but my own datapoint and the
>>> metrics from others. Tear down the testing model, but at least show a
>>> different/better one in return.
>>>
>>> On Fri, 12 Aug 2016, Keith Stokes wrote:
>>>
>>> Route53 can get expensive for lots of domains. Queries are cheap with the
>>>> first 1M free, but if you have 1000 domains you’ll pay $500/month.
>>>>
>>>> You can build dedicated servers in multiple AZs and data centers able to
>>>> handle that many domains for far less.
>>>>
>>>> You might also consider running dedicated servers in each of AWS and
>>>> Azure to avoid a single-provider failure.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Having worked for AWS, there is no "global" control plane that would
>>> bring
>>> two regions down at the same time. While possible, due to say a targeted
>>> successful attack on both regions simultaneously, highly unlikely.
>>> Control
>>> and data plane software updates and deployments are done regionally, and
>>> often on an Availability Zone basis where applicable, to ensure there are
>>> no defects.  Automation measures and will automatically roll back code
>>> that
>>> breaks deployment metrics.
>>>
>>> It's pretty sweet. Their internal tools team does amazing things with
>>> automation.
>>>
>>> Route53 is $0.50 per month per "zone" (domain) for the FIRST 25, then
>>> $0.10
>>> per month per zone after that. 1000 domains would be $110 a month, not
>>> $500. 500 million queries at $0.40 per million, another $200/month.
>>>
>>> Who knows if you need that much, but it is pretty affordable.
>>>
>>> Beckman
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>>> Peter Beckman                                                  Internet
>>> Guy
>>> beckman at angryox.com
>>> http://www.angryox.com/
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