Global DNS State, Part 2 – DNS Centralisation

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12 points·yatralalala··6 comments

Given what's happening with Cloudflare downtimes, we looked at internet centralisation.

GoDaddy and Cloudflare alone host ~106 millions of domains – about one-third of all the domains. The top 10 providers sit on over half of all the domains.

From the page:

Avoid stacking everything on a single vendor when it really matters (DNS + CDN + WAF + hosting all in one basket).

I'm not sure I understand several of the statements in this article, such as the above. If my entire service is built on Cloudflare (Workers, DNS, CDN, WAF), moving my DNS to GoDaddy doesn't improve my site's reliability. The only way I'd improve reliability is by having full redundancy of each component, end to end. In other words, a region or availability zone.

There's an industry gap for good alternatives to Cloudflare, but they already make so little money for the value they're providing, why bother?

As a matter of fact, unless you’re increasing redundancy, stacking multiple different vendors on top of each other will only increase the chances of things going down.

I think you mean: If your entire customer-facing service is built on Cloudflare and the rest doesn't matter, etc.

But I suspect that the rest matters. For example, will you benefit from having your domain working when the admin team works on an outage? Yes/maybe/no? My answer is the middle one.

Anybody else surprised that GoDaddy has so much and Porkbun has so few?

Goes to show that the that Reddit/HN hivemind isn’t representative of what is happening in reality.

> GoDaddy: 65,517,208 domains (~20.5%)

If they have so many and are such a big part of the Internet, why has their stock price sunk so much in the last year, jeez: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/GDDY/

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