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DNSimple

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What is DNSimple?

DNSimple provides, DNS hosting and domain management automation services through API and beautiful web interface. Register domains, manage DNS, and issue SSL certificates, with clients in Ruby, Go, Elixir, Node, and more. DNS hosting service is fully compliant with all the .BANK security requirements.

Categories & Use Cases

DNSimple, a very simple domain manager

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It is a portal that facilitates the management of DNS domain zones, and also provides SSL certificates. It also works as a domain registrar. It can function as a primary DNS zone or configure it as a secondary zone for our domains that are on other DNS service providers. It also allows various price plans according to our needs.

Pros

  • Domain management.
  • Configuring SSL certificates
  • http to https redirection

Cons

  • It only has 3 pricing plans, but they are very flexible.
  • Domain transfers can sometimes be slow

Most Important Features

  • Unified management
  • SSL Certificates
  • http to https redirection

Return on Investment

  • Faster management from a single portal, which saves time/money in management
  • Centralization of all SSL certificates
  • Redirection from http to https so we save money on updating all the links to our web pages.

Alternatives Considered

Namecheap, Hostwinds and GoDaddy

Other Software Used

Cisco Umbrella, Pentaho, Jupyter Notebook