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We've heard your requests and today we're happy to introduce Two-Factor Authentication!

Two-Factor Authentication is an extra layer of security that requires not only a password and username but also something that only that user has, i.e. a piece of information only they know or have - such as a physical token.

You can find more information on what 2FA is and how to activate it here.

Feature requests help us stay in tune with what you want, need and expect, so keep sending us your comments and giving us feedback.

Thank you,
ClouDNS Team

As you know, we’re constantly upgrading our service and we’re happy to inform you that from today we support CAA records.
A Certification Authority Authorization (CAA) record allows you to specify which certificate authorities (CAs) can issue certificates for a domain.
You can add, remove, and update CAA records from your control panel.

We also have new promotional TLDs available for you.

Check them out and register yours today – before someone else does!

Today we have released a new feedback option for our ticketing system. No matter if your ticket is opened by e-mail or from the control panel, you can rate us and share your comments. Please share with us your feedback, it will help us to improve our technical support and provide you better service and support in future.

Some other features released today:

• $ORIGIN will be added to the DNS zone files export option. Have it in mind, if you plan to use the exported DNS zone file for other DNS zones at your custom servers.
• Improved integration and checks of the .DE DNS zones and domain names based on the DENIC (.DE domain registry) requirements. You may see warning messages for the .DE DNS zones, if the configuration do not match the requirements of DENIC.
• Updated FastMail DNS records template with the new records required for the FastMail integration with custom domain name.
• Gmail DNS records template no longer conflicts with the other custom TXT records (for an example Web Master Tools TXT verification record).

Need some other feature?

Write us at support@cloudns.net and we will develop it for you.

Hello,

Seven years ago, we launched a little project called ClouDNS.
We had big ideas and lot of passion and over the years we became a technology leader in providing global Managed DNS services.

Today, seven years later, we’re introducing the most cost effective GeoDNS service on the market with an optimal amount of zones, records, and queries per month.

So just like last year, we're celebrating our 7th birthday not by buying ourselves something nice, but by giving you something awesome - for the next 7 days all Premium, DDoS protected and GeoDNS plans are 50% OFF!*

Take your business to the next level of speed with ClouDNS!

All the best,
ClouDNS Team

* One-time offer valid till 23:59 GMT Tuesday /7 Mar, 2017/.
* Promotional and custom plans are not included.

Our DNS service just got more awesome! We are proud to announce the launch of our newest point of presence (POP) in Brazil.  We now operate 14 Anycast DNS Data Centers on 6 continents!

The data center we have connected to our network is Maxihost, located in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The data center is very good connected to all local network exchanges and has direct peering with multiple providers in the region. Connectivity in this data center improves our Anycast DNS presence in the whole South America region in times - Urugvay, Argentina, Chile, Bolivia and others.

What to try our service? Sign up for 30 days free trial from here.

Hello,

As we embark on a new year we would like to thank all our clients, partners and everyone we’ve had the pleasure of working with - for making 2016 such an enjoyable year.

We’ve launched many new exciting features at the end of the year. Here are few of them:

• 2 new Anycast DNS Data Centers - after the launch of our newest points of presence (POP) in Germany and South Africa, we now operate 13 Anycast DNS Data Centers on 5 continents.

• Introducing WHMCS module - WHMCS is the most powerful and used billing system for hosting related businesses. Now you can upgrade your services with just a few clicks. All our premium hosting plans are available to your customers via WHMCS module for resellers.

• We now offer NAPTR records for our premium users.

• Dedicated IP addresses - you can now enjoy the benefits of full white-label DNS service with dedicated IP addresses and server names for your brand.

Wishing you all an awesome and spectacular 2017!

Warm regards,
ClouDNS Team

Dear Customers,

For the last few months we have been working hard on our next system update. Many small improvements of our system and control panel interface were deployed last week. Here is a list with the most important updates:

• Extracting CSV lists of DNS zones in your account. You can simply download the list from the small CSV icon in the Dashboard under the table DNS zones.
• DNS records pagination. Many of our customers have large DNS zones with lots of DNS records (for example reverse IPv6 DNS zones). The long list with DNS records is hard to be displayed on the most web browsers. We have added the pagination as an optional feature for customers who are facing such issues. The option can be enabled from your profile settings (click on the e-mail address at the top of the control panel).
• @ reference for CNAME and MX records. When you point your CNAME or MX records to the @ reference, they are pointed to the root domain name. This option allows you to point the subdomains of the cloud domain names to themselves, instead of creating separate DNS zones for each cloud domain.
• Enable and disable options for the DynamicURL. We have improved the DynamicURL options for A and AAAA records. You can now enable and disable the feature. Also you can request a new DynamicURL to be regenerated for the given record if your current DynamicURL is compromised or just want to change it for security reasons.
• Mobile responsive settings for the web redirects with frames. You can now add additional mobile responsive parameters which will be set into the HTML iframe of the web redirect records that are configured with the frame feature.
• Mailchimp DNS records template. You can now connect your domain names to the Mailchimp service with just a few clicks.
• New HTTP API methods for easier integration of your custom system to the ClouDNS service:
  • Available DNS record types. Lists the DNS record types of a specific type of DNS zone - domain, reverse or parked.
  • Available TTL values.
  • List registered domain names.
  • Get pages count of the registered domain names.
  • Import DNS records from bind or tinydns zone file.
  • Get DynamicURL enables and generates the DynamicURL for the record.
  • Disable the DynamicURL for the record.
  • Change the URL for the DynamicURL for the given record.

Vote for the next Anycast DNS POP

We need your feedback where to expand our network. Vote from here. Available locations in the pool are:

• Brazil
• South Africa
• Canada
• Germany

New TLDs

The following new TLDs are added to our system for new registrations and transfers:

Order from here.

Domain Promotions

The following Domain promotions are active this month:

Order from here.

Thank you for being a ClouDNS customer!
If you have any questions or issues - do not hesitate to contact us!

Regards,
Boyan Peychev
CEO

Dear Customers,

We are starting the summer with June Domain and Positive SSL Promotion!

Domain Registrations

Order from here.

This is limited time promotion valid until the end of June 2016 for the first year of new domain registrations.

Comodo Positive SSL

Comodo Positive SSL certificates are on -37.5% SALE this month with included recurring discount for future renewals. The promo is valid only for new ordered Positive SSL certificates. Order from here.

Please contact us at sales@cloudns.net, if you have any questions.

Regards,
ClouDNS Sales Team

Dear Customers,

We are celebrating our 6th Birthday!  Six amazing years with cool clients and interesting projects. We are growing thanks to you! Thank you for being our customers!

As most of you already know, each year on our birthday we are release one new big feature. This year, we have launched our Anycast DNS Network.

Anycast DNS

ClouDNS Anycast DNS Network is served from 11 data centers located in North America, Europe, Russia and Asia Pacific – maximizing the speed, minimizing downtime and providing our customers with the highest possible SLA for each of our global locations. Our customers have full redundancy and reliability on our network with reduced latency across each continent.

More details about the Anycast Data Centers we use.

Anycast DNS is already operating for all our DDoS Protected DNS hosting plans. The DDoS Protection capacity is improved from 10Gbps to Hundreds of Gigabits through multiple DDoS Protection facilities. Earlier this month all our existing DDoS Protected Customers were migrated to our DDoS Protected Anycast DNS network. For our Premium Customers we can provide an easier upgrade from Premium to DDoS Protected plan. Please contact us from the Support menu of your control panel, if you are with Premium plan and want to upgrade to the DDoS Protected one.

Birthday Promotion

Of course, what will be our birthday without a big promo!? This year, we are running -50% for all our DNS hosting plans during the Birthday Week.

Premium DNS is starting only from $1.00/month. Order from here.

DDoS Protected Anycast DNS is starting only from $2.45/month. Order from here.

The promotion is valid until May 1, 2016 for all new and existing customers (including upgrades). Do not miss it!

Thank you for being Loyal Customers!

Regards,
Boyan Peychev
CEO