~jb
Jim McAtee wrote:
Just received the announcement that Tucows will be offering their DNS service beginning in December and checked out the details at the RRC.
Is there a pricing page that I missed?
How will the service be priced - do each of the little add-ons, such as the domain forwarding and "under construction" page each carry a monthly fee?
Does Tucows offer geographically diverse DNS servers? How many servers are there and where are they located? Is any kind of redundancy is employed - are they clustered, for instance?
Is there no secondary-only DNS offering? I know this was discussed previously. Overall, the DNS service seems like somethng being sold more to resellers than to end-users, so I'm surprised that secondary DNS wouldn't be offered. A service where Tucows' servers are authoritative, but pick up zone updates from a reseller's (stealth) DNS servers might also be attractive.
Can multiple zones share common zone files, other than the one "default zone"? That is, can I point 100 domains(zones) at one set of records, 50 domains at another set, etc.? As a web host, we do this commonly, with one or two zone files per physical hosting web server. All domains share the same information and if an IP address changes, it means just updating one zone for all of the affected sites running on that server. If a customers has DNS needs beyond the basic web/ftp/email that we provide, we break them out into their own zone and maintain it as needed.
Can the zone files be edited directly, either by the reseller or by the customer? Or are the API and RWI based only on per-record transactions?
