[ale] dyndns.com

[James Sumners]

I've been using dyndns.org since at least 2001. In that time, they
have dropped the free domains from 5, to 4, and finally 2. Earlier
this year they pushed the free accounts into having to _manually_ log
in to the dyndns.org website at least once every 30 days or the
account will be deleted.

If my ISP wouldn't randomly change my home IP, I'd be dropping
dyndns.org. As it is, I'm in the market for an alternative (if I ever
get the time to do the research).

On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 1:30 PM, leam hall <leamhall at gmail.com> wrote:
> John,
>
> If I understand correctly, it is about $10-15/yr for name registration. Then
> you pay for DNS services. Not sure if OpenDNS could help here.
>
> FWIW I've been a DynDNS customer for a while.
>
> Leam
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 1:24 PM, John Heim <john at johnheim.net> wrote:
>>
>> I want to get a dynamic dns account for my vanity domain, johnheim.com. I
>> see that dyndns has a debian package so I went there and created an account.
>> When I started putting things in my shopping cart, I saw that  transfering
>> the domain was like ten or twelve bucks. But it wants to charge me something
>> like $35 for "standard DNS". Do I need that? I'm getting a total of around
>> $45 for one year. Everywhere else I look, it's $10 to $15 *total*.
>>
>> The shopping cart options at dyndns.com  for DNS are something like
>> "standard DNS", managed DNS (which is way more), and "I want to run my own
>> DNS server." I don't want to pay $35 for DNS nor do I want to run my own DNS
>> server.  Is the shopping cart just misleading or do I really need that
>> standard DNS service?
>>
>> I know that I could just use a different company but I'm blind
>> anddyndns.com works well with a screen reader. Better than  namecheap,
>> godaddy, or namesecure.
>>
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>> ===
>> John Heim, john at johnheim.net
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