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by Sibexico7 hours ago |
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upvoteby ralish7 hours ago|
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Uh, paying for DNS isn't uncommon? Examples off the top of my head:

- Akamai DNS

- AWS Route 53

- Azure DNS

- Cloudflare (excluding personal/hobbyist plan)

- Google Cloud DNS

And many, many others. And I note the site you posted this comment on is using Route 53, so probably paid as I doubt their query volume would be in the free tier.

Paying for DNS for personal/hobby stuff is probably pretty uncommon, because like you say, most domain registrars will offer it for free. But commercial websites often will, particularly larger ones with serious traffic.

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upvoteby sebiw7 hours ago|
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Domain Registrars usually have shitty, subpar DNS eg. without Anycast or DNSSEC.
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upvoteby savikko7 hours ago|
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If i have understood correctly, Anycast is not feature of DNS but a feature of BGP.

Otherwise, that is my observation also.

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upvoteby celsoazevedo3 hours ago|
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I believe they're referring to the DNS servers. The closer they are to the user, the faster a DNS resolution happens.

A good provider will have different locations across the world, and users connect to the nearest datacentre. The free DNS some domain registrars offer is, sometimes, hosted at one single location. If the server is in the US and the user is in Europe, you're adding 80-150ms to requests. If they use "anycast" servers, the user could connect to a server 1-20ms away.

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upvoteby matja7 hours ago|
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Amazon Route 53 is $0.40 per million DNS queries - which would terrify me if I used it, considering a typical 10Gbit server connection hosted at a unscrupulous ASN with no egress IP filtering is capable of sending a million DNS requests per second from random spoofed IP addresses.
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