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If you register a domain with Cloudflare or Route 53, and that service goes down, do your records stay active in the DNS servers? What if the DNS servers go down, I know a lot of people use 8.8.8.8, so if Google's server goes down, then DNS fails?

What are the potential point of failures for having your own domain?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

What are the potential point of failures for having your own domain?

Forgot to answer this. My advice would be to pick a good DNS provider.

It doesn't have to be the company which registered your domain. A good provider will generally have more than two authoritative DNS servers, will generally have them in separate top-level domains (e.g., .com, .net, .uk, etc.), and may even be running Anycast, which makes them even more resilient.