Lookups measured in milliseconds, wherever your visitors are
Included free with every domain. No setup, no upsell, no "premium DNS" tier to buy.
Hosting Location
CDN/DNS Only
What is anycast, and why does it matter?
Traditional DNS runs on a handful of nameservers, usually in one or two physical locations. If your visitor is in Sydney and your nameserver is in Virginia, every single lookup crosses the Pacific before your page can even start loading.
Anycast flips that. One IP address gets announced from every point of presence at once. Your visitor's network routes them to the closest one automatically: Singapore for the Sydney visitor, Amsterdam for the Berlin visitor, Las Vegas for the LA visitor.
The result is DNS lookups in single-digit milliseconds, from anywhere, every time. If a POP ever goes down, traffic re-routes itself to the next-nearest one. There's no failover config and no provider to call at 2am.
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 to a third-party service. We run our own network and give it away with every domain.
No configuration
Point your nameservers at ours. Done. There's no "upgrade to anycast" toggle because every domain we host already has it.
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 for you to maintain.
DDoS Protected by design
Anycast spreads queries across every POP, so a flood that would flatten a single nameserver gets diluted across the whole network instead.
Full control over your records
Free doesn't mean limited. 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 wherever you like: GitHub Pages, Vercel, Cloudflare, your own server, a friend's homelab. Where your stuff lives is your business. Making it resolve fast is ours.
Or skip configuration entirely. Every domain registered here comes pre-pointed at our nameservers with sensible defaults, ready for records whenever 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.