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Comment by pseudosavant | Hacker News Reader

Can someone inform me as to why some random dynamic DNS service is trending on HN? I went to their site, read their FAQ, etc. Nothing about this service seems unique compared to the countless other dynamic DNS services out there.

Am I missing something?

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Most likely related to the recent discussion about Cloudflare's DNS handling 1.3T queries/day [0]

You tend to get a few echoes relating to popular posts (or comments from those posts that suggest alternatives and/or pros and cons)

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36984419

A lot of the other free dynamic DNS services don't cut the mustard, or have vanished over the years. Some of them have weird rules like that your IP address has to be dynamic and change every once in a while, some of them have terrible software and don't have a clean API, some of them require you to check your email every month to click a renew button, and most of them don't have a web UI you can use to manually type in an IP address.

DuckDNS just kinda sits there and does its thing. So it may be interesting for a HN audience to know that a decent usable dynamic DNS service is still around.

For me, duckdns.org is what I usually see on SMS spams. I won't use it due to this, but it's a sort of proof of existence.

At least it's more trustworthy than .tk!

(Side note: Earlier this year, Freenom has temporarily stopped giving away free domains due to an ongoing cybersquatting lawsuit from facebook. Very sad.)

It's the most friendly free DNS I have encounter.

- It's really free instead of "annoyingly free" that requires you to confirm every month that you are still using it.

- It lets you update with a simple HTTP request + token (e.g. "curl ..." command), no login protocol, nor any special login protocol that good luck if it's supported by your router or DVR.

- Simple copy-paste instructions for dozens of systems, instead of others DNSs that have no docs and their only instructions is to make you install their adware/spyware app

- No ads. Just a simple donate button at the end of the admin page which I haven't visited in months/years

No idea why it’s trending, but it is not very random. It’s probably the most popular DDNS out there right now. A lot of docker images have built in support or plugins to use it in conjunction with lets encrypt for HTTPS support.

Anything can trend on HN any time, it's not unlike any other social news website.

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