Dynamic IP Solution

Please read the FAQ to explain:

• What is an IP?
• What is a Dynamic IP?
• What is DNS?
• What is a domain?
• How the Internet works?

Having an IP to a computer is similar to having a telephone number to a piece of property. Imagine that your telephone changed every couple of days though. The telephone book doesn't change quick enough. No one would be able to contact you for your business to be a success. If you ran a pizza delivery restaurant you wouldn't be able to sell any product since no one would be able to call you to place an order.

Dynamic IP is very similar to this problem. You are not able to host your site if your IP (your telephone number) changes. A normal DNS (Domain Name Service; your telephone book) does not update as soon as your IP changes. When your IP changes it usually creates broken DNS records, or worst yet, the DNS is now pointing to someone else's computer (another business).

At least that is how DNS used to work.... UNTIL NOW!

DNS Made Easy has created a DNS server to change your entry as your IP changes. You will never have downtime whenever your IP changes. Similar to changing everyone's telephone book as soon as your telephone number has changed.

How does DNS Made Easy work?

DNS Made Easy has built a system so that as soon as your IP has changed, you may contact our system to update your DNS record immediately.

Example:
Your FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name) computer to host your webpages is called www.dnsmadeeasy.com. (Of course instead of dnsmadeeasy it would be your own domain.) That FQDN has a DNS that is actually pointing to the name 192.168.9.1. Similar to how John Smith may have the telephone number 555-555-1892. Now as soon as your computer changes IP , let's say it changed to 10.7.12.123, the DNS entry is now also changed. But it changes for the whole world. Let's follow this step by step:

1. You make your account keep track of your domain. (Example www.dnsmadeeasy.com)
2. You point www.dnsmadeeasy.com to your IP which is now 192.168.1.2. DNS Made Easy provides you tools to do this easily.
3. The world is now going to your website by going to www.dnsmadeeasy.com.
4. Your IP has now changed since you have a dynamic IP solution from your ISP. Your IP has changed to 10.7.12.123.
5. You notify DNS Made Easy and your record is changed immediately.
6. Everyone can now connect to your www.dnsmadeeasy.com and they are now connecting to 10.7.12.123.

Plus it gets even better! And this is how DNS Made Easy is better than the rest!

How is DNS Made Easy different from other services?

• Many other services only update their records at set times. Many run their updates at night or once a day. Often forcing you to have a day of downtime.
  • DNS Made Easy makes the DNS updates immediately.
• Other services require you to have a large TTL. A TTL (time to live) is the length of time that your record will stay in cache (memory) on other systems. Since other providers force you to have TTLs of 12 hours to 1 day you will have a long period of downtime.
  • DNS Made Easy allows you to set your TTL as low as 5 seconds depending on membership.
• DNS Made Easy has a 100% uptime history.
  • Something that not many other providers can claim.

What does it take to have DNS Made Easy be your Primary and Secondary DNS?

Tell the Registrar with which you registered (or which you will register) that your domain will be using DNS Made Easy's nameservers. You will have to provide some (or all) of the following information:

To make DNS Made Easy even easier we are making an IP update available by passing the parameters to a HTTP request. There are currently clients for both Windows and UNIX-like machines. For more information and to see the current list of clients click here.

Note: Your domain and record must be set with the advanced "Dynamic IP" setting when it was first created to use this service.