Ever since EveryDNS was acquired by DynDNS I feel it left a void for a free DNS service. Does anyone else since this void? I may create a free DNS service to fill it. Thoughts, suggestions and feature requests would be greatly appreciated!
<a href="http://dnsimple.com" rel="nofollow">http://dnsimple.com</a><p>It's not free, but it's only like $3/mo. You get 1 month free, and with every referral you get a free month. It's by far the best and easiest dns service out there. It was a side project of an HN'er as well. He did a fantastic job with the service.<p>Makes DNS easy. When I wanted to set up google account stuff (mail, notes, docs, etc). I just clicked on the domain edit, clicked edit (or something along that verbiage) and chose it from the list. Also used that to set up my A record pointing my personal domain to my username.github.com site.
We are extremely happy with Zerigo. Great UX, with things like import/export of records, and ready-to-go snippets for email hosted at Godaddy etc and Heroku-hosted domains. They have a free plan (3 domains, 50k queries/mo). IMO their $19/year (20 domains, 1M queries/mo) and $39/year plan (45 domains, 2M queries/mo) are "pretty close" to free.
I have no firsthand experience but 1984.is run a free DNS that I have heard mentioned a few times.<p><a href="http://1984hosting.com" rel="nofollow">http://1984hosting.com</a> will take you to their English site (although the What is FreeDNS? page is in Icelandic).
<a href="http://www.namecheap.com/products/freedns.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://www.namecheap.com/products/freedns.aspx</a><p>Not ideal, but not terrible either.