Starkadius 219 Posted April 9, 2014 Share Posted April 9, 2014 (edited) Dyn offers a whole passel of DNS-related products, but the company is most famous for its free DynDNS service: it lets users associate often dynamic IP addresses with hostnames, as long as those users "check in" once a month. It's a boon for people wanting to slap an easily remembered, fully qualified domain name onto their home ISP connections without dropping the money to actually register a domain—and it's vanishing on May 7, 2014. Just a heads up for people that use DynDNS with Media Browser. I am currently using No-IP so that could be an alternative for some of you. Source Edited April 9, 2014 by Starkadius 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfnetwork 514 Posted April 10, 2014 Share Posted April 10, 2014 (edited) I'm using their paid service and never been happier. I have my domain name also ans simply point to to DYNDNS hostname. On my server, the agent is keeping everything up to date. One account can have 30 hosts if I remember correctly so I guess, if you team up with friends, not expensive at all Been a while I used No-IP but I remember I had issues on the long run (reliability, etc..) but thing might have changed... I think also the 30 days expiration if I don't do something in agent annoyed me as hell... I prefer to set it once then NEVER think about it.. And my ISP was really overcharging me for a static IP so... Edited April 10, 2014 by sfnetwork Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigjohn 656 Posted April 10, 2014 Share Posted April 10, 2014 Another free alternative is dynu.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sydlexius 243 Posted April 10, 2014 Share Posted April 10, 2014 (edited) I've mentioned this in the past, and it's something to consider for those of you who are thinking of forking over $25/yr for Dyn's VIP product. Over at Namecheap.com, you can get (or transfer) your own domain, enable dynamic DNS, and use a ton of DDNS clients to keep things up-to-date (My preferred method is to use DNS-O-Matic to aggregate changes out; my router support is, so I know it's always updated). Further, they'll let you purchase an SSL cert for said dynamic domain (Almost everyone requires a static IP for that) for a decent price as well. If you do go that route though, I suggest ponying up for 5 years, as it can be a bit of a pain to generate and install new certs. Anyhow, in the interest of full disclosure, I do not work for them. Edited April 10, 2014 by sydlexius Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zombieagain 7 Posted April 10, 2014 Share Posted April 10, 2014 I just discovered that my router Netgear Nighthawk R7000 includes a free dns service through no-ip (the domain looks line whatever.mynetgear.com). I signed up for it and I haven't read anything about the 30 days expiration during the registration process. We'll se how it goes in a month. I haven't had any issues with dyndns so far and the $25 dollars a year is not a big of a deal, but if my expensive router includes the no-ip service, why not give it a shot... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jordy 284 Posted April 10, 2014 Share Posted April 10, 2014 I just opened a DNSExit account. Free, fairly painless and no mention of 30 day expiry. http://www.dnsexit.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vidmo 3 Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 For those who are considering staing with DynDNS, use the 5 year option with the "free account" coupon, brings the yearly cost down to ~$13/year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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