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Comment by IgorPartola | Hacker News Reader

It's clever but feels at least a 3/10 shitty. Dyn is an old company and back in the day they provided free subdomains while nobody else did. I haven't used them recently because their pricing seems so high. How do others feel about them?

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A few years ago I had Dyn hosting my DNS records for a website that had Amazon affiliate links. For some reason, one day someone at Amazon mistook those links for spam and contacted a service called MarkMonitor. MarkMonitor contacted Dyn and Dyn took down my account, shutting off access to the website. Without ever contacting me.

I was able to get my account reinstated after clearing the whole thing up with MarkMonitor and Amazon. I then removed all affiliate links and moved my DNS hosting elsewhere.

Never using Dyn again.

I still have a lifetime standard DNS subscription with them from back in the day when they were dyndns.org and you could physically mail them cash. The DNS hosting has been very solid (except for the day Mirai took them offline) but the standard query limits are way too low for any moderately trafficked website. All the managed DNS providers I looked at seem to have very restrictive query limits without a "enterprise - contact us" plan, one of the reasons why I decided to just do DNS-only on Cloudflare.

Why not he.net?

I use he.net DNS quite a lot for personal projects. I've had a few instances where DNS was not resolving that make me a bit cautious to move larger sites onto their service.

> I haven't used them recently because their pricing seems so high. How do others feel about them?

I feel about them that the free dynamic DNS option with a Namecheap registration offers everything Dyn did except built in options on cheap home routers.

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