CTPFDNS Authoritative DNS

CTPFDNS · Authoritative DNS

Your zones on our own nameservers.

Four authoritative nameservers on three continents, one primary that pushes every change out the moment you make it — and a record standard that is applied to your domain instead of left to you.

What you get See the network
Twelve Points of NameServer Frankfurt, Singapore, Sydney, New York, Los Angeles, London, Amsterdam, Helsinki, São Paulo, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Washington D.C. — the nameservers run in Frankfurt, Amsterdam, London and Los Angeles. Frankfurt Frankfurt Singapore Singapore Sydney Sydney New York New York Los Angeles Los Angeles London London Amsterdam Amsterdam Helsinki Helsinki São Paulo São Paulo Hong Kong Hong Kong Tokyo Tokyo Washington D.C. Washington D.C.

The service

DNS is not a side product here.

We do not resell somebody else’s anycast. The nameservers are ours, the software on them is ours, and the people who answer when something is wrong built it.

Own

Four nameservers, no reseller

The nameservers in Frankfurt, Amsterdam, London and Los Angeles are machines we run. No third-party DNS provider sits between your zone and the internet.

Operated, not rented
Fast

Change once, live everywhere

The primary notifies all secondaries the moment a record changes. The zone transfers immediately instead of waiting for a refresh timer.

NOTIFY, then AXFR
Complete

A zone that is finished

Every new zone is created from a template: SPF, DKIM, DMARC, CAA and TLSRPT are already in it. No half-configured domain leaves the panel.

Standards by default
Managed

We move your domains

Zones are migrated for you in the order that actually works — the delegation is switched only once our nameservers already answer correctly.

Migration included

Network

Where your zone is answered from.

One primary, three secondaries. Every secondary carries the full zone, so any one of them can answer on its own.

FrankfurtDE

Primary PONS

AmsterdamNL

Secondary PONS

LondonUK

Secondary PONS

Los AngelesUS

Secondary PONS

What is included

Everything a zone needs, without a price list per record.

  • All record typesA, AAAA, CNAME, MX, TXT, SRV, CAA, PTR, NS and the rest — no artificial limits per zone.
  • Secondary DNSWe can act as secondary for a zone you keep elsewhere, or take the primary role entirely.
  • Reverse DNSPTR zones for the ranges you control, managed in the same place as the forward zones.
  • Zone templatesA new domain starts with the complete mail and certificate record set already in place.
  • APIEvery change the panel can make is available programmatically for your own automation.
  • Mail records done rightSPF, DKIM and DMARC set up and verified, not left as a to-do in a wiki.
  • MigrationZones are exported, checked against the original and only then delegated to us.
  • MonitoringAvailability of the nameservers is measured from outside, not by ourselves.
  • DNSSECBeing rolled out: once a domain has completed its move to CTPFDNS, its zone is signed.

The facts

Plainly stated.

Properties of the setup, not marketing figures.

4Authoritative nameservers
4Countries: DE, NL, UK, US
PowerDNSOn our own machines
0Third-party DNS providers involved

Plans

Start free, grow when the traffic does.

The same four nameservers and the same record standard in every plan. All differences side by side — or take a regional bundle: America, Asia Pacific, Europe or all twelve locations at once.

Free DNS

Free forever
  • 4 authoritative nameservers
  • 1 zone, 50 records
  • 500,000 queries per month
  • 1 mail forward
  • 1 dynamic DNS host
  • The CTPF record standard applied
  • Zone editor and all checks
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Managed DNS

Starting from: €2.95 per month
  • Everything in Free
  • More zones, records, mail forwards and dynamic hosts
  • Secondary DNS with NOTIFY and AXFR
  • DNSSEC signing
  • Free zone migration
  • API access
  • Support by mail, answered by the people who run it
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Protected DNS

Starting from: €5.95 per month
  • Everything in Managed
  • Attack filtering in front of every nameserver
  • Higher query volume
  • DNS failover with health checks
  • Reverse DNS for your address ranges
  • Private nameservers on your own domain
  • Service level as written down
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GeoDNS

Starting from: €9.95 per month
  • Everything in Protected
  • Answers by region
  • EDNS client subnet support
  • Weighted answers per record
  • Several failover targets per region
  • One flat price, no overbilling
  • Enterprise terms on request
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Free zone migration with no limit on the number of zones — works with standard zone files. Prices exclude VAT.

Principles

Six rules we work by.

Delegate last

The registrar is switched only once our nameservers already serve the domain correctly.

Verify at a secondary

A change counts as live when a secondary answers it, not when the primary accepts it.

Templates over memory

What every zone needs is in the template, not in somebody’s head.

No placeholder ever ships

A record still containing an unresolved placeholder is refused, not published.

One standard, all zones

When a standard changes, it is applied to every existing zone, not only to new ones.

Our own network first

Every rule here runs on our own domains before it is offered to anyone.

Moving a domain to us?

Tell us the domain and where it is hosted today. We do the rest in the order that keeps it online.

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