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About DNSimple

DNSimple provides a comprehensive API and web interface for domain management automation to customers around the world. Our vision is one where anyone, regardless of skill level, can register domains and connect them to the services they love without thinking about DNS.

With DNSimple you can register, transfer, and renew domains across a variety of top-level domains, from the most common such as .com, to a wide variety of country-code TLDs such as .io, .cc, and many others, to new TLDs such as .link, .coffee, and more.

Once you've registered your domain you can then manage all of your DNS zones either through our beautiful user interface or through our fully-featured API. One-click services make it easy to connect your domain to a wide variety of hosting services like Heroku, Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.

Secure your domains with SSL certificates from Comodo or Let's Encrypt, automate the installation of certificates through our web services, and keep your domains operating safely and securely.

Finally, if you ever run into issues you can always contact our knowledgeable team via email. You will receive a rapid response from one of our knowledgeable technical team members, helping ensure you get the best service possible from DNSimple.

Features

• API
• Bulk Domain Management
• Calendar Management
• Dashboard
• External Integrations
• Multi-User
• Notifications
• Scheduling

Summary

• HTTP API for domain and DNS management

• API clients in Ruby, Go, Elixir, JavaScript, and Java

• Register, transfer, and renew domains via a REST API

• Let's Encrypt and Comodo SSL certificates

• Webhooks for event notification on domains, DNS, and certificates

Pricing

FAQs

Does this service offer guides, tutorials and or customer support?

• We offer many helpful articles in our support site. We also provide a 3-day mini course for getting started with our API, extensive API documentation, and API example code in a variety of languages.

Does this service offer multi-user capability (e.g. teams)?

• In Professional and higher tiers, accounts may have multiple users attached to them. Users may also have multiple accounts. This combination allows for separation of domains into groups for controlling overall access to domains. Each user maintains their own credentials and two-factor authentication, and all activity is logged and made available for audit.

What are some applications this service is commonly used in tandem with?

• DNSimple is often used with SaaS hosting services like Heroku, Digital Ocean, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.

What is this service generally used for?

• DNSimple is used to buy domains, connect them with SaaS services, and operate those domains throughout their entire lifecycle.

Does this service offer an API?

• DNSimple provides a comprehensive REST API for registering, transferring, and renewing domains, requesting and retrieving SSL certificates, and managing all aspects of DNS.

What platforms does this service support?

• DNSimple is a web service that works on all platforms.

Who are the main user groups of this service?

• DNSimple services the operators of the Internet. This ranges from software developers tasked with creating new web properties and applications, to marketing teams that launch unique microsites on a regular basis, to practitioners of DevOps who want to automate their DNS management.

Vendor Information

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• Enterprises

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