Benchmarking DNS response times of TLDs

Post by SiVal » Fri, Jan 10, 2020, 11:53 AM UTC

Eikon wrote: post #21

frereubu wrote: post #16

We have a client who insisted on using a .house domain. It kept triggering alerts on our uptime monitoring service with DNS errors, so we had to reduce the sensitivity of that specific test. We also had a client who had to change their TLD from .healthcare to .org.uk because (a) people were confused because they didn't understand that there are all these new TLDs and kept adding .co.uk, .org etc and (b) some NHS syst…

> I still advise clients to use www rather than a plain domain name for websites And you should. Not only can’t you put CNAME at the zone APEX without doing nasty tricks but not doing so is also a security risk when dealing with cookies.

Post by pidg » Fri, Jan 10, 2020, 11:58 AM UTC

thrwaway69 wrote: post #29

sdan wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Although I may see what the BunnyCDN is trying to get at, personally I've gotten under 10ms with .com (even w/o caching). I find this a bit hard to believe without more people justifying or backing this work up. So yeah, don't worry about your TLD. .io is perfectly fine and companies and people internationally use it.

.io doesn't have a good history though outside of this - https://hn.algolia.com/?query=io%20domain&sort=byPopularity&...

Post by dsr_ » Fri, Jan 10, 2020, 11:59 AM UTC

danpalmer wrote: post #8

random_savv wrote: post #6

Would love to hear if the same applies to SEO and/or spam filters. I have a .works domain, which looks nice, but it was a huge mistake and wish I had gone for a .com: - people often mispell it to .work, or just generally get confused - one customer actually couldn't receive my emails because some layer in their email stack was blocking this domain - .work exists, and somebody else owns [name].work, which is a potenti…

I’ve heard anecdotally that getting .xyz email delivered is much harder than .com, some servers just blanket reject. I expect this will change as the domains become more popular.

Post by mcny » Fri, Jan 10, 2020, 12:07 PM UTC

dsr_ wrote: post #35

danpalmer wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’ve heard anecdotally that getting .xyz email delivered is much harder than .com, some servers just blanket reject. I expect this will change as the domains become more popular.

I blacklist .xyz, .ninja, and a few others. Nobody complains.

Post by siscia » Fri, Jan 10, 2020, 12:13 PM UTC

jlelse wrote: post #30

siscia wrote: post #17

A little off topic, but some of you folks have experience with bunnycdn, the company behind the post? Are they fine?

Yeah, they are doing an amazing job.