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Authoritative DNS

Fast and reliable DNS Service that is trusted by global brands to secure their online presence.
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UltraDNS and UltraDNS². One company, two networks.

Ensure your digital infrastructure and online presence are always reachable. UltraDNS and UltraDNS² provide enterprise-grade, cloud-based solutions that securely deliver fast and accurate query responses to websites and other vital online assets.

Whether you’re looking for a primary, secondary, or dual managed DNS solution, we can meet your needs with customizable packages – utilizing two fully redundant networks that can work together to deliver DNS services seamlessly. Our services come with built-in security protections and provide highly reliable, low-latency, authorized DNS resolution worldwide to ensure your online resources are always reachable.

“We have been using UltraDNS  for more than a decade without any glitches.”
UltraDNS Customer Survey, October 2022

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The complete DNS solution for your business.

Start with UltraDNS to get lightning-fast, reliable query responses through a high-performance, fault-tolerant global network with 29 DNS nodes.  Add on UltraDNS² with 18 more DNS nodes to get the highest degree of service-level redundancy with two separate DNS anycast resolution networks that deliver exponential value.

  • Industry-leading DNS resolution for fast, reliable responses
  • Full protection with massively scalable DDoS mitigation capabilities
  • Global DNS nodes for faster responses
  • Built-in UltraDNS Health Check of zone configurations
  • Worldwide zone propagation in seconds for accurate routing
  • Advanced DNS features that work seamlessly across two diverse networks
  • Administrative simplicity managing two networks through a single pane of glass solution
  • Business continuity, disaster recovery, and compliance from a single DNS vendor
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Superior query response features.

Your company’s online presence is critical to defining your brand – and safeguarding your reputation. Get authoritative DNS resolution that can help ensure a flawless internet experience for users with features that are incomparable.
Performance

Designed for near-zero response times.

Manage up to 100 billion global authoritative DNS queries per day with our trusted authoritative networks that use BGP and IP anycast routing schemes. Our DNS nodes are co-located with Vercara’s recursive and top-level-domain (TLD) servers, providing near-zero latency responses and instant cache updates for the zones that Vercara hosts.

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Learn more about our managed authoritative DNS solutions.

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Advanced DNS traffic management services.

UltraDNS advanced features provide you with full control over how traffic is distributed to your websites and applications.

Protect your mission-critical, web-based operations and avoid business disruptions with UltraDNS SiteBacker, a cost-effective monitoring and failover solution that can be quickly deployed with minimal effort.

Gain the ability to define weighted or round robin load balancing configurations without the need for in-house hardware costs or management with UltraDNS Traffic Controller. UltraDNS Traffic Controller comes with UltraDNS SiteBacker for dynamically modifying weighted traffic away from unresponsive servers.

Improve website performance and user experience by sending your visitors to specific servers based on their geographic locations, IP addresses, or IP address block with UltraDNS Directional DNS. With this feature, you can also protect your applications by blocking traffic from unwanted regions, countries, or provinces.

Use DNS CNAME functionality at the apex (or root) of a domain with Apex Alias and utilize CDNs and outsourced cloud environments as the apex of a domain to resources outside of the domain.

DNSSEC provides one-click protection to ensure the integrity of your DNS from malicious attacks, such as cache poisoning and DNS hijacking.

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Insider’s guide to choosing a DNS service.

Four critical qualities in a foundational DNS service.

Recent Vercara insights.

News, research and opinions from our security experts.