2. Managed DNS Services
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Managed DNS Services

Managed DNS Services Overview

What are Managed DNS Services?

A DNS server manages resolution between public IP addresses and their host names. A managed DNS service relieves much of the hassle associated with hosting your own DNS server. When self-hosting a DNS server, downtime can disrupt service delivery and requires troubleshooting. Managed DNS services provide far more resilient networks of servers. By steering traffic dynamically they improve access to digital assets and reduce DNS load time.

Managed DNS providers may also offer security features such as web application firewalls (WAFs), DDoS protection, web filtering and anti-malware. Many managed DNS providers specialize in failover, a common feature to ensure uptime by redirecting traffic away from endpoints that have gone down. Alternately, secondary DNS is a strategy to prevent outage whereby multiple authoritative servers are always available to answer queries.

Managed DNS Service Features & Capabilities

Managed DNS service providers specialize in availability, security, continuity, or cover all three. Common features offered by managed DNS providers are as follows:
  • Large global DNS network to support resiliency
  • Intelligent traffic routing (geolocation, policy)
  • Global load balancing, cloud migration
  • DNS failover for service continuity
  • Secondary DNS
  • Distributed denial of service (DDoS) protection
  • Web application firewall (WAF)
  • Antimalware
  • DNS analytics (log generation, traffic analysis, usage & downtime trends)
  • Availability and disaster recovery
  • DNS propogation and change management

Pricing Information

Managed DNS service providers offer services on a monthly pay-as-you go basis or on a subscription basis. Lower tier small business plans support a relatively limited number of domains or queries per second (QPS) vs. corporate plans. Enterprise plans offer wider feature sets like traffic steering, failover, more comprehensive analytics, and dedicated account support.

Managed DNS Products

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Oracle Dyn Managed DNS

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187 Ratings

Oracle Dyn DNS (domain name system) is an infrastructure-as-a-service that is touted by Oracle Dyne as one of the highest performance global networks existent. It is available as a managed DNS with secondary DNS available for more reliable business continuity on higher service tiers.

Cisco Umbrella

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26 Ratings

Cisco now offers OpenDNS Umbrella Web Filtering. Cisco acquired OpenDNS in August 2015, and rebranded the product as Cisco Umbrella.

Amazon Route 53

10 Ratings

Amazon Route 53 is a Cloud Domain Name System (DNS) offered by Amazon AWS as a reliable way to route visitors to web applications and other site traffic to locations within a company's infrastructure, which can be configured to monitor the health and performance of traffic and endpoints in the ne...

NS1

2 Ratings

NS1 in New York offers a range of managed DNS solutions across a worldwide anycast network of servers, featuring intelligent real-time traffic routing and a full security suite.

CloudfloorDNS

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Everbridge offers the CloudfloorDNS managed DNS service, supporting enterprises with a high availability DNS network, domain management and load balancing, DNS failover, and geo-aware traffic routing.

Azure DNS

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Microsoft offers Azure DNS, a managed network of name servers supplying availability, support for migration, and DNS security.

Neustar UltraDNS

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UltraDNS is a managed DNS service from web security company Neustar, featuring built-in security and threat intelligence.

Verizon ROUTE

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Verizon offers a managed DNS service, ROUTE, touting high performance and availability with their extensive worldwide network.

Google Cloud DNS

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Google Cloud DNS is a managed DNS service, featuring a global network of anycast servers and touting reliability, availability, and performance.

Akamai Fast DNS

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Akamai offers Fast DNS, a managed DNS touting high availability and strong DDoS protection, deployable as a primary or secondary DNS solution.

CDNetworks Cloud DNS

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CDNetworks offers their managed Cloud DNS service providing DNS protection against spoofing and cache poisoning, and high availability of web applications.

Verisign Managed DNS

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Virisign offers a range of DNS services, including their Managed DNS featuring traffic management, DDoS resilience, primary and secondary hosting, zone restore, and a suite of security tools.

F5 DNS Cloud Service

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F5 Networks offers their DNS Cloud Service providing failover and continual performance, DDoS protection, auto-scaling to meet application usage, and other features.