CloudDNS Managed DNS & DNSSEC

Manage, steer and protect authoritative DNS at scale

Many organisations struggle to maintain reliable, low-latency DNS while retaining visibility into query patterns and server health. Lack of centralised record control and absent traffic steering can increase latency, complicate failover and obscure the root cause of incidents.

CloudDNS delivers managed authoritative DNS hosting with record management, query analytics, server health monitoring, traffic steering and DNS security. It enables teams to reduce latency, direct traffic by availability or location, and apply cryptographic protections to guard DNS data integrity.

Where CloudDNS is used

Host authoritative zones in a managed service to remove the need to operate public nameservers. Centralise record changes and use query analytics to spot misconfigurations and traffic trends.

Use traffic steering and GeoDNS to route users to the nearest or healthiest endpoints and implement DNSSEC plus provider DDoS protections to reduce risk from tampering and volumetric attacks.

Fits within these solutions

DNS Security

Delivery & Deployment

SaaS / Cloud

Managed Service

Suitable environments

CloudDNS suits organisations that prefer a managed, vendor-hosted DNS platform to avoid running public nameservers. It fits public internet-facing domains and private network zones where teams need centralised record control, traffic steering and DNSSEC without operating the underlying resolver infrastructure.

Benefits

Faster resolution

Reduce query latency using global anycast and traffic steering to nearer or healthier endpoints.

Improved availability

Increase uptime with distributed nameservers and DNS-based failover capabilities.

Stronger data integrity

Protect DNS responses against tampering by enabling DNSSEC signatures.

Operational visibility

Expose query and health metrics to speed troubleshooting and capacity decisions.

Reduced DDoS impact

Rely on provider-held DDoS protections to lessen the effect of volumetric attacks on DNS.

Simplified record control

Centralise record changes to reduce configuration errors and speed updates.

Capabilities

Managed DNS hosting

Provides vendor-hosted authoritative DNS hosting to publish and resolve domain zones.

DNS record management

Create, update and manage DNS records across hosted zones from a central service.

Query monitoring & analytics

Collect and report DNS query metrics to visualise traffic patterns and record usage.

Server health monitoring

Monitor nameserver and endpoint health to inform routing and failover decisions.

Traffic steering & load balancing

Distribute and steer DNS traffic using load balancing and failover controls.

GeoDNS routing

Route queries based on client geolocation to direct users to nearer hosts.

DNSSEC management

Support DNSSEC signing and key management to authenticate DNS responses.

Anycast nameservers & DDoS protection

Serve zones over an anycast network with provider-held DDoS protections on nameservers.

Applications

Authoritative zone hosting

Host public authoritative zones to outsource nameserver infrastructure and operations.

Centralised record management

Manage DNS records across domains and teams from a single hosted control interface.

User geolocation routing

Direct users to the nearest endpoints to reduce latency and improve experience.

Failover & load distribution

Implement DNS-based failover and weighted routing to balance traffic across sites.

Cryptographic domain protection

Deploy DNSSEC to guard against cache poisoning and ensure response authenticity.

Resilience against DDoS

Use anycast and vendor DDoS protections to keep domains reachable during attacks.

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