Authoritative DNS

189DNS
Authoritative DNS for your domains

Manage zones and records from a single console.

  • Redundant authoritative servers
  • GeoDNS
  • Observable responses

Highlights

Key capabilities

Bulk records

Submit many records at once.

One-click free certificates

ACME certificates you deploy yourself.

Hijack detection

Mismatched answers are flagged as hijacked.

Poisoning detection

Unexpected addresses are flagged as poisoned.

Poisoning mitigation

Resolve over HTTPS, bypassing recursive resolvers.

HTTPDNS

DNS over HTTPS

Resolve over HTTPS

No local recursive resolver involved.

Geo-aware

Returns addresses by region.

One key per domain

Revoked keys stop working immediately.

Sample-driven integration

Integration samples are provided in the console.

Dedicated NS

Your own authoritative servers

You stay in control of your zones.

Dedicated public IPs

Not shared with public name servers.

Guided setup

Starts answering as soon as it is ready.

A pair of NS hostnames

Delegate at your registrar.

Zone sync

Records are pushed to your own servers.

Responsibility

You procure or rent the nodes yourself and are responsible for outages caused by downtime, unpaid bills or attacks. See the Terms of Service.

Plans

Choose by scale

See the console for quotas.

Free

Starter

Get your domains onboarded.

Enterprise

Teams

Dedicated support.

Payment: online payment supported; prices are in USD.

Get started

Get started in three steps

  1. 01

    Add your domain

    Add it in the console.

  2. 02

    Add DNS records

    Configure A, CNAME and other records.

  3. 03

    Switch name servers

    Point your domain to our NS at your registrar.

Note

NS changes take effect within minutes to hours, up to 48 hours.

Free SSL

Free SSL certificates

Multiple domains in one certificate, wildcards supported.

Multi-domain

One certificate covers many domains, including *.example.com.

Fully automatic for hosted domains

Pick from existing records or type them in; validation is automatic.

External domains supported

We show the records to add at your current DNS provider, ready to copy. Checks run before submission, and failed checks don't count against your quota.

Wildcard records are safe

Existing * records won't affect validation, and your records are never modified.

Multiple download formats

ZIP with crt, chain, fullchain and private key, plus PFX for IIS.

Deployment guides

Nginx, Apache, Tomcat, BT Panel / 1Panel.

Auto-renewal

Renewed automatically before expiry, no reapplication needed.

My certificates

View and download all issued certificates in one place.

Quota

Each account can request up to 20 new multi-domain certificates per day, with up to 100 domains each. Auto-renewals don't count toward the quota.

Get started

Sign in and add your domain