Buddy NS Free, $ 0.00/mo. on DNS
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| 🔌 Domains Allowed : | unlimited |
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| 💳 Payment Methods : | Credit / Debit / Prepaid CardsWire Transfer |
| 🔨 Control Panel : | [In-house] |
| 🔧 Category : | DNS |
| 🌏 Server Locations : | Australia Canada Estonia Germany Israel Japan Singapore United Kingdom United States |
| ⚑ Targeting : | CH |
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*📜 Plan description
Free plan provides secondary DNS continuity and baseline cryptographic protection for individuals and small projects, including commercial use.
Traffic quota: up to 0.3 million DNS queries per month (per account).
DNS security: DNSCurve support for drop-in link-level protection.
Sync time: typically 6-12 minutes for DNS updates.
Access and automation: REST API is available for programmatic workflows, and domains, records, and updates are described as unlimited with the main limiter being traffic quota.
Delegation: uses Free-branded delegation.
Support: positioned as no support for this tier and intended to be fully unattended, relying on the user to bring their own know-how.
Use case: suited to users who already run their own primary DNS and want a reliable secondary that stays in sync and keeps zones reachable if the primary is down.
BuddyNS is positioned as a secondary DNS replication service designed to remove DNS as a single point of failure for websites, email, and other online services.
The service emphasizes survival and security against human mistakes, infrastructure failures, and attacks by serving zones side-by-side with the primary DNS with minimal operational change.
Security messaging highlights DNSCurve across all plans and DNSSEC on higher tiers, aiming for immediate, drop-in DNS hardening without requiring a redesign of existing infrastructure.
The platform promotes massive scalability on a global cluster designed for spikes in traffic and large query volumes, and a long track record of high reliability is highlighted in marketing materials.
Operational flow is described as: create an account, add domains to protect, allow zone transfers from the primary, delegate domains to BuddyNS, and then operate with continuity and monitoring from the BuddyBoard portal.
Infrastructure is described as a geographically sparse, multi-provider global footprint with redundant servers and strong IPv6 support, intended to reduce latency and improve availability for global users.
Traffic quota: up to 0.3 million DNS queries per month (per account).
DNS security: DNSCurve support for drop-in link-level protection.
Sync time: typically 6-12 minutes for DNS updates.
Access and automation: REST API is available for programmatic workflows, and domains, records, and updates are described as unlimited with the main limiter being traffic quota.
Delegation: uses Free-branded delegation.
Support: positioned as no support for this tier and intended to be fully unattended, relying on the user to bring their own know-how.
Use case: suited to users who already run their own primary DNS and want a reliable secondary that stays in sync and keeps zones reachable if the primary is down.
BuddyNS is positioned as a secondary DNS replication service designed to remove DNS as a single point of failure for websites, email, and other online services.
The service emphasizes survival and security against human mistakes, infrastructure failures, and attacks by serving zones side-by-side with the primary DNS with minimal operational change.
Security messaging highlights DNSCurve across all plans and DNSSEC on higher tiers, aiming for immediate, drop-in DNS hardening without requiring a redesign of existing infrastructure.
The platform promotes massive scalability on a global cluster designed for spikes in traffic and large query volumes, and a long track record of high reliability is highlighted in marketing materials.
Operational flow is described as: create an account, add domains to protect, allow zone transfers from the primary, delegate domains to BuddyNS, and then operate with continuity and monitoring from the BuddyBoard portal.
Infrastructure is described as a geographically sparse, multi-provider global footprint with redundant servers and strong IPv6 support, intended to reduce latency and improve availability for global users.
📄 Editorial Review
BuddyNS is a specialist secondary DNS and DNS security provider rather than a traditional web host. It does not sell shared hosting, VPS, domains or email; instead, it focuses entirely on keeping DNS fast, resilient and secure for organizations that already run their own primary nameserver. The service sits alongside existing DNS infrastructure, replicates zones in real time and answers queries from a global anycast cluster.The platform is operated by BuddyNS.com as part of FrontDam GmbH, a small Swiss company based in Zürich and focused on uptime and security of Internet services. The team positions BuddyNS as a long-running, battle-tested service with over a decade of operation, handling huge DNS volumes with a track record of 100% uptime since inception and no missed queries, which is quite rare in this niche.
From a product perspective, the offering is structured into four main plans: Free, Pro, Astronaut and Enterprise. The Free plan targets individuals and small setups that need continuity and security on a budget, including commercial use, with up to 0.3 million queries per month and DNSCurve encryption, but no formal support or mobile notifications. The Pro plan (from about $3/month) raises traffic limits into the multi-million query range, speeds up sync times and adds technical support and notifications, making it suitable for power users, hosting resellers and small businesses that need robust DNS but still watch costs.
The Astronaut plan (from about $12/month) is clearly aimed at organizations that treat DNS as critical infrastructure. This tier activates anycast, adds DNSSEC, DDoS protection, two-factor authentication and full technical support, with higher traffic quotas starting around tens of millions of queries per month. At the top end, the Enterprise plan (starting around $129/month) is built for ISPs, large SaaS platforms, ccTLDs and very high-traffic environments: uncapped traffic, the option to use dedicated IP ranges and even custom PoP locations, immediate DNS updates and close integration with the BuddyNS engineering team.
Regardless of tier, the common thread is the emphasis on dual DNS security (DNSCurve for link-level protection and DNSSEC for data-level assurance on higher plans), fast zone synchronization and global anycast resolution. BuddyNS explicitly targets sysadmins, registrars, hosting companies, universities and other technically savvy teams who already understand DNS and just want a reliable, secure, external secondary that "just works" alongside their primary nameserver.
Importantly, BuddyNS is not a public DNS resolver (like "8.8.8.8" - Cloudflare) and not a generic web host; it is a specialist authoritative secondary DNS and DNS security platform. Anyone looking for a place to host websites or mailboxes will need another provider and then point their DNS there, using BuddyNS purely as the resilience and security layer on top.
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