Trustname's Premium DNS - Supercharging Your Website Performance

Created by Matt W, Modified on Fri, 10 Jul at 8:46 AM by Matt W

A fast, secure, and reliable website starts with a strong DNS service. Trustnames PremiumDNS enhances website performance by improving speed, uptime, security, and reliability all at no extra cost for Trustname domain users.


Key Takeaways

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  • Free Service – PremiumDNS is included free with every registered or transferred Trustname domain.
  • 100% Uptime – Anycast DNS helps keep your website available even if one server experiences issues.
  • Enhanced Security – DNSSEC and DDoS protection help safeguard your website from common online threats.
  • Faster Performance – A global Anycast network speeds up DNS resolution for quicker website loading.
  • Expert Support – Access to dedicated human support for DNS and domain management whenever you need assistance.

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In your business's online marketing, all roads lead to your website. Whether you are sending traffic from social media campaigns, email, YouTube, or traditional ad channels, your website is where a potential customer will find everything they need to know about your brand and products.

And that's why you should do everything you can to ensure your website loads quickly and is secure. The bulk of the time it takes for a website to load is the DNS resolution process.

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Premium DNS takes the DNS service you get from your DNS host a step further and gives you advanced features to ensure the DNS resolution process is as swift as possible, improve your website's uptime, and provide the most security.

Read on to learn more about Premium DNS and how Trustnames PremiumDNS gives you all the 'high-tier' DNS features for free!


What Is The DNS And How Does It Work?

The DNS, short for Domain Name System, serves as a global directory for the internet. Humans find it much easier to remember letters and words like 'amazon.com' when they want to visit websites.

On the other hand, the computers and servers that power the internet each communicate using IP addresses e.g. 192.158.1.58 which serve as their unique identifiers.

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The DNS matches human readable domain names to the corresponding IP addresses of the servers where the website content is hosted. Without the DNS, DNS resolvers won't know where to find the website linked to a domain and we'd have to memorize these weird IP addresses whenever we want to visit a website.


Think of the relationship between domain names and IP addresses in the DNS like that between the address of your house and your house's coordinates on a map. Chances are you know the text representation of your house address (e.g. No. 5 Rodeo Drive) vs. the exact coordinates of your house (e.g. 54.385233, -85.563873).

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The DNS uses servers on four levels to translate domain names into IP addresses. A typical DNS query starts with a recursive server that then moves to a root server, next to a TLD server, and finally the authoritative nameservers in charge of that particular domain.


What Is DNS Hosting?

To help you appreciate PremiumDNS, it's important you understand DNS hosting and how it works. DNS hosting is often confused as a type of web hosting but they are different.

Web hosting gives you space on servers to store your website content so that it is available on the internet. Whenever someone searches for your website, the DNS resolution process returns the IP address of the web servers (provided by your web host) where your website is stored.

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DNS hosting gives you access to nameservers and DNS resolvers that answer queries for your website, store your DNS records, and return the IP addresses of the web servers. Many web hosts like Trustname also provide DNS hosting alongside their web hosting services, hence the common misconception.


What Is Premium DNS?

The same way web hosting comes in different tiers from shared to VPS to dedicated hosting, DNS hosting also comes as basic and Premium DNS. On most registrars, when you register a domain name, you get free or Basic DNS as part of your package. This gives you access to authoritative nameservers and easy management of your DNS records.

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Premium DNS, on the other hand, is usually a paid service that takes your DNS hosting further by giving you access to a network of authoritative nameservers, unlocking new security packages like DNSSEC, and boosting your uptime and website reliability.


Why Trustnames PremiumDNS?

As part of our core services, Trustname offers a PremiumDNS package that supercharges your website performance with a 100% uptime guarantee, unbeatable reliability, exceptional support, and protection from common DNS targeted attacks.

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  • Our PremiumDNS Is Free Of harge

    First, Trustnames PremiumDNS is free of charge! Depending on the registrar, most platforms charge between $5-300 per year. Trustname is the only registrar that gives you access to all the premium features that come with PremiumDNS for free.

    Once you register or transfer your domain to Trustname, PremiumDNS is automatically activated on it at no extra charge.

  • Guaranteed 100% Uptime

    Unlike basic DNS which gives you access to only one or a pair of DNS nameservers, Trustnames PremiumDNS connects your domain to a network of DNS resolvers. This way, even if one of your DNS resolvers is down, the request is automatically routed to the next closest available resolver.

    Trustnames Premium DNS works using the Uptime Anycast DNS network to route queries to the distributed nodes, ensuring the swiftest load times for your visitors wherever they are in the world.

  • Unbeatable Reliability

    Trustnames Ultimate Uptime Anycast DNS also ensures the most reliability for your website. Most of the internet operates using the Unicast protocol where each device on the network is given a unique IP address.

    If a large number of requests are being made to your website, the origin server may get overwhelmed. Via Anycast, any extra traffic that the main node cannot take is distributed across the network of data centers, and the IP address is effectively shared by the network.

    With the distributed approach of Trusnames Premium DNS, you can be sure your website will load for each visitor, each time and every time.

  • DNSSEC Support

    A big part of Trustnames Premium DNS is you get support for Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC). DNSSEC is a suite of addon extensions to DNS that adds a layer of security to ensure that DNS responses are authentic and have not been tampered with during transit.

    With DNSSEC enabled, web browsers can be sure that they are getting a response from you and that the results of the DNS query haven't been manipulated by bad actors.

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    DNSSEC uses public/private key cryptography and helps protect your brand reputation. Customers are also protected from being redirected to scam websites whenever they want to check out your website.

  • Impenetrable Security

    One of the core essences of Trustnames PremiumDNS is how it makes your website resilient to common DNS targeted attacks like Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks.

    In a DDoS attack, the attacker attempts to disrupt the normal operation of your website infrastructure by flooding it with a surge of internet traffic. With your servers down, your website won't be able to provide responses to legitimate requests, hence, denying them of your services.

    Trusnames Premium DNS distributes your website's DNS records across the Anycast network of DNS resolvers so that during the time of a DDoS attack, your DNS queries can be distributed across the network and don't overwhelm a single server.

  • World-Cass Support

    At Trustname, our PremiumDNS gives you access to our dedicated team of human support agents (many of whom are webmasters themselves) who are at your beck and call to help you resolve any domain management issues.

    Customers at most other registrars complain about how support requests are handled by chatbots or how limited the support they get is. At Trustname, you get support for not just our PremiumDNS but every other of our core products.

    You can contact our agents via live chat or by submitting a ticket. And if you like to figure things out yourself, our robust knowledge base and tutorial center has all the resources you need.


Trustname Premium DNS vs Competitors

Here's how Trustnames PremiumDNS package compares with those from our competitors:

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  1. Trustname – PremiumDNS package is free of charge giving you a 100% guarantee, DNSSEC support, world-class support, DDoS protection, unbeatable website load times, and our Ultimate Uptime Anycast DNS network.
  2. Namecheap – Charges $4.88 per year for the first year and $9.98 per year subsequently.

  3. GoDaddy – Charges $4.99 per month or $60 per year.

  4. CrazyDomains – Charged at $30 per year.

How To Enable Premium DNS On Trustname?

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Here's the good news! Unlike other registrars, you don't need any special steps to activate Premium DNS for your Trustname domain. Once you purchase a domain with us or transfer it to us, your nameservers are set automatically to our Premium DNS servers.

And to continue to enjoy our Premium DNS, your domain's nameservers should be set to ours. In the event that you transfer your domain out but still use our DNS service, you will lose access to our Premium DNS features but will still enjoy our regular DNS service.

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