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Life & fun · July 4, 2014

Roll your own dynamic DNS service with Amazon Route53

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Roll your own dynamic DNS service with Amazon Route53 launched on July 4, 2014 with 6 votes and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 12 years on.

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I used the free Dynamic DNS (DDNS) service from Dyn since about 2006 and never had a single issue with it. That all changed when they phased out their free accounts . I was forced to find an alternative, so I went with No-IP.com which was easy to set up and provided a great service. Recently, No-IP has been having some legal troubles that seem to be revolving around Microsoft’s crusade to rid the world of spammers/scammers/malware/botnets. My hostname was one of the ones that was nixed by Microsoft’s overly broad court order. I’m sure MSFT could have just worked with No-IPs abuse team and taken down only the offending domains - but I’m not going to get into rant…from willwarren.com

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