Hey y’all, I’ve been using my.freenom as my domain registrar for the past six years without too many issues. I’ve kept it mainly because it has been cheap as balls. However, I am now looking for a registrar that supports dynamic dns and would love to hear your suggestions. The first results that pop up are google and godaddy which are not what I’m looking for. (I actually had issues with godaddy stealing domain names all the way back in 2010, but that’s another story) A local community reference is worth a lot more to me than a top search result.
The plan is to set up my domain to point to my local IP for stuff like valheim servers so i don’t have to share an IP every time we want to play. My friendlywrt router supports dynamic dns out of the box, so that’s what I’m looking to use for my domain.
Also, it needs to support subdomains going to different places. Complete access to the dns records is enough, but I would love a more user friendly interface for adding things like a separate email host, a webhost address, plus a subdomain for the valheim server.
For free, duckdns.org
For a little money (of buying a domain name), Cloudflare
Both have apps, scripts, API, docker containers etc. to dynamically update. And a web interface, obviously.
I just want to point out that you want a DNS server that supports dynamic IP updating. Not a registrar. The registrar isn’t necessarily your nameserver. The two are different things. Might help with your search.
Thank you, but I’m using a paid domain that needs yearly fees in order to remain mine. A separate dns server would probably work, but I would rather make one payment instead of two.
Have a look at Dynv6. They support delegation from your registrar and dyndns by several different means.
Check out porkbun, they have cheap prices and an API that’s supported by ddclient.
Porkbun is the way!
porkbun
Interesting. Would you say that porkbun is a good candidate for setting up a PiHole + Wireguard VPN at home?
I think choosing a domain registrar with DynDNS support has very little to do with setting up PiHole and Wireguard at home. PiHole and Wireguard will not care about or interact directly with a service like porkbun. Okay, you might configure PiHole to forward DNS requests to porkbuns nameservers, but that’s something every dns provider will support because that’s what dns providers do.
You don’t have to change domain registrar, you just have to point your non dynamic domain’s CNAME record to your free dynamic dns address. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNAME_record This way you can add ddns capabilities to any domain
Oh my god that’s perfect. I think I managed to do it with this. Thank you so much.
This is my setup. Ddns on the router updates ddns service and all my domain records are a cname to that.
Looks like you solved it but I moved from Google DNS to Namecheap and it works well. I use multiple subdomains and certbot without issue.
Cloudflare? Namecheap?
Not sure exactly what features you’re after but the vast majority of them support what you mentioned above.
Fyi, namecheap doesn’t expose the API unless you pay more, also the API key is admin rights, not just changing the IP. I would stick with cloudflare.
OVH has (ipv4 only) DynDNS and is widely supported by routers etc.
I use cloudflare as my DNS and registrar and ddclient to set up addresses dynamically
I know you got your answer but wanted to mention the Google DNS is going away and being migrated to square space.
Check out Cloudflare, with a D. It’s free and does exactly what you want.
