Premium DNS
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Close security gaps
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Improve site availability
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Faster performance
Reduce "website not found" errors
Premium DNS includes
What is DNS and why do I need to manage it?
It's during this DNS address "look up" where you can experience problems in performance, accessibility and security - everything from your domain not being found to hackers redirecting your visitors to a fake website in order to steal their personal information.
Every domain name is given a series of numbers known as an IP address — for example, the IP address for www.coolexample.com is 68.178.232.100. It's this number that your browser uses to locate a particular website.
When you type a domain name into your browser, the DNS (Domain Name Server) looks through a huge database to find the IP address you requested and then directs your browser to the correct website content.
Premium DNS makes it easy to manage and secure your DNS to improve performance, accessibility and security by placing your DNS information on our Premium global network.
We distribute your DNS information on multiple servers around the world so visitors searching your site get connected to the closest server location, for a fast response.
Our DNS security feature (DNSSEC) stops hackers by securing the "look up" process and verifying the visitor is actually arriving at YOUR site.
Solve top DNS issues to improve security, reliability and performance.
What good is your website if visitors can't reach it? Premium DNS makes it easy to resolve common issues that prevent people from accessing your site, improving your overall performance, availability and security.
Problem: Hackers attempt to hijack your site and steal customer data. Hijacking is a risk with all DNS systems around the world. It's a common way for hackers to steal private information. When a customer types in your Web address, the hacker interrupts the DNS lookup process and sends the user to a fake and malicious site that may look like your website.
Solution: Premium DNS (enabled with DNSSEC) creates an unbreakable "chain of trust" between the visitor's browser and your server, verifying that the visitor is actually arriving at your website.
Problem: Keep all web exchanges private. Another way hackers steal credit card numbers and other sensitive information is through "eavesdropping." Hackers sit on the DNS server and "listen in" on messages, logins and passwords as customers access your site.
Solution: By verifying the visitor is at the intended website, Premium DNS shuts eavesdropping down.
Problem: "Website not found" errors cause you to lose visitors and sales. It's never good when users get a "website not found" error. At best, they think you're unprofessional; at worst, they think you don't exist.
Solution: Premium DNS makes sure your site is always available by using the Anycast global network, which provides multiple layers of redundancy. Your DNS records are distributed on servers throughout the U.S., Europe and Asia, so if one server should go down, your website will still be online. With unlimited secondary DNS, you always have a failsafe in case of a major outage.
Problem: Visitors experience delays or "time outs" trying to reach your site. There's a lot riding on the physical distance between your visitors and your server. Customers who live far away may experience a delay in reaching your site or even get a "website not found" error message. The more cable between your server and your customer's computer, the longer it takes for them to reach your site.
Solution: The Premium DNS infrastructure offers improved security and faster resolution than the standard infrastructure. And since your information is distributed across DNS servers around the world, customers connect to the closest server location for a quicker response.
We've been providing our customers 99.999%∞ uptime since 2002!
More than 40 million domains trust our DNS infrastructure to make sure their web applications are always available.
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Unlimited Domains (zones): Some providers limit the number of domains you can manage and charge extra to add more. With Premium DNS, you can manage DNS activity for all of your domains (excludes DNSSEC^).
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Templates: Create templates with common configuration for easy zone updates.
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Bulk Features: Bulk imports, exports and updates to zones.
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Groups: Group zones together for organization and apply universal group updates.
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Expanded record limit: Don't be nickel and dimed with overages. Get 1,500 records per domain with Premium DNS. 99.999% SLA guarantee∞
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Error Checking: You don't have to be a DNS expert. We make it easy to find issues with our error checking features.
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Forwarding: Call forwarding for your website.
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99.999% SLA guarantee∞: We guarantee a 99.999% uptime Service-Level Agreement∞ on your DNS resolution to insure your web-based systems are always available.
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DNSSEC: Enable up to 5 DNSSEC domains (additional available) and secure your site with the DNSSEC chain of trust, making sure hackers can't redirect your visitors to a fake and malicious site.
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Secondary DNS: When your web application is mission-critical, you want a secondary DNS server with syncing.
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AnyCast Global Network: Get fast, reliable, secure DNS resolution with our Anycast network. This redundant, global approach covers the U.S., Europe and Asia, helps protect against DNS-targeted DDoS attacks and eliminates a single point of failure.
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Manager: Easily manage all of your domains with full control over record types: NS, MX, A, SRV, TXT, CNAME and more. You can also control time-to-live (TTL) at the record level.