Our startup EntryDNS a free DNS management service

If it's totally free, how will you make money? Where's the business?

You should add support for SRV records. I know i personally couldn't use this unless you did.

Looks good, although the previous mentioned point of your revenuestream is a big questionmark, I'd rather pay 1USD/domain or whatever to know it will stick around.<p>I tried looking at your ns-servers for the screenshot-example(100armstrong.biz) but that seemed fake. Your own domain are using:<p>answer: entrydns.net 3600 NS ns3.serveriai.lt answer: entrydns.net 3600 NS ns4.serveriai.lt answer: entrydns.net 3600 NS ns1.serveriai.lt answer: entrydns.net 3600 NS ns2.serveriai.lt<p>Checking what serveriai.lt is makes me wonder how stable that can be. Not beeing from .lt its hard to know if thats a thrustworthy provider. I would suggest you put a few examples ns-records for the domains that will be hosted by you, and perhaps an action plan for failures at any of those, or a nameserver upstream. A good addition might also be to show how geographically distributed your ns-servers are, and perhaps give users a few options so they can make sure theres always a nsserver within the same country or continent as most of the users.<p>Your upcoming feature-list looks really interesting and something that could be well suited as a paid-for-option.<p>Good luck!<p>Edit: got some more ideas after posting

I quickly setup an account to see how many name servers you are offering. There only appear to be two primary name servers that are within the same netblock. Both IPs appear to be announced by the same ASN from the same location.<p>So your clients are one medium level denial of service attack away from a complete outage.<p>Doing your own IP anycast requires some heavy investments but sometimes you can work with providers that have multiple locations to setup anycast in their IP block.<p>Denial of service attacks are something you just deal with when you offer low cost or free services like these. You are going to have a lot of unsavory types register and start hosting sites from your name servers; and even after you terminate the record your name server still has to deal with responding with NXDOMAIN.

A DNS service with any type of free tier of service does not work. They have been tried dozens of times before (including by me), and never work out over the long term.<p>Your number one problem will be abuse. 50% of your user base will be the hacker/hobbyist types you expect, the other 50% will be people who can't get DNS service elsewhere (MLM/Ponzi schemes, child porn, jihadist forums and propaganda sites). These types of sites will generate tons of inbound complaints which you need to deal with, as well as massive DDoS attacks which you will need to sink to avoid service disruptions (think $100k+ in hardware plus bandwidth costs).<p>If you are crazy enough to move forward, you should reach out to dnsbl.org, its a shared database of domains to deny service to.

Nice too see a free alternative, even though I suspect it won't feel reliable in practice for serious sites, though I'm hardly an expert on this topic so I better leave that to experts.<p>What I could say though is that I'm after 6 months of usage very sold on DNSimple, those guys just rock and it's a few bucks per month - read: nothing - and updates records fast-as-*, instant support, even for obscure things as "the great firewall"-issues, etc. For those that want to pick a safe card.

Why would anyone sign up? No SSL and no security rationale talked about anywhere within the site. DNS isn't just for fun and games, the site doesn't exude much confidence in security as a development component.

What will your service have over dns.he.net?

Please give any constructive criticism!