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Dynamic DNS domain registrar (kbin.social)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/selfhosted
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Hey y'all, I've been using my.freenom as my domain registrar for the past six years without too many issues. I've kept it mainly because it has been cheap as balls. However, I am now looking for a registrar that supports dynamic dns and would love to hear your suggestions. The first results that pop up are google and godaddy which are not what I'm looking for. (I actually had issues with godaddy stealing domain names all the way back in 2010, but that's another story) A local community reference is worth a lot more to me than a top search result.

The plan is to set up my domain to point to my local IP for stuff like valheim servers so i don't have to share an IP every time we want to play. My friendlywrt router supports dynamic dns out of the box, so that's what I'm looking to use for my domain.

Also, it needs to support subdomains going to different places. Complete access to the dns records is enough, but I would love a more user friendly interface for adding things like a separate email host, a webhost address, plus a subdomain for the valheim server.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You don't have to change domain registrar, you just have to point your non dynamic domain's CNAME record to your free dynamic dns address. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNAME_record This way you can add ddns capabilities to any domain

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh my god that's perfect. I think I managed to do it with this. Thank you so much.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This is my setup. Ddns on the router updates ddns service and all my domain records are a cname to that.