Our anycast network
Single-digit millisecond DNS, wherever your visitors are. Free with every domain — no setup, no upsell.
Hosting Location
CDN/DNS Only
What is anycast, and why does it matter?
Traditional DNS uses a handful of nameservers — usually one or two physical locations. If your visitor is in Sydney and your nameserver is in Virginia, every domain lookup makes a round trip across the Pacific before your page even starts loading.
Anycast flips that. One IP address is announced from every point-of-presence simultaneously. Your visitor's network automatically routes them to the closest one — Singapore for the Sydney visitor, Amsterdam for the Berlin visitor, Las Vegas for the LA visitor.
The result: DNS lookups in single-digit milliseconds, every time, from anywhere. And if a POP ever goes down, traffic re-routes to the next-nearest one automatically. No DNS provider to call, no failover to configure.
From Las Vegas to Singapore, and seven more in between.
Anywhere on the planet, your visitors are one POP away.
Included with every domain you register or transfer in. No tier upgrade required.
Bring the traffic. We sized the network for our own infrastructure first.
Built like infrastructure, priced like a feature
Most registrars charge extra for premium DNS or push you toward a third-party service. We run our own network and give it away.
No configuration
Point your nameservers at ours. That's it. There's no "upgrade to anycast" toggle because every domain we host gets it by default.
Self-healing failover
If a POP drops, BGP routes your visitors to the next-closest one automatically. No outage page, no support ticket, no failover endpoint to maintain.
DDoS by design
Anycast spreads incoming queries across every POP. A flood that would overwhelm a single nameserver gets diluted across the network — attack traffic absorbs into capacity instead of taking you down.
Full control over your records
Free anycast doesn't mean limited. Manage every record type a modern app needs — A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, TXT, SRV, CAA — with custom TTLs and unlimited records per zone.
Point your domain at any host: GitHub Pages, Vercel, Cloudflare, your own server, a friend's homelab. We don't care where your stuff lives. We just resolve it fast.
Or skip configuration entirely: every domain registered with us comes pre-pointed at our nameservers with sensible defaults. Add records when you need them.
Faster lookups, no setup required
Every domain you register with NameCrane includes anycast DNS. Bring an existing domain over and you get it too.