ClouDNS vs deSEC
DNS — side-by-side specs, real prices, and how each scores on our methodology.
ClouDNS 9.5 /10 editorial Free DNS hosting, Cloud DNS hosting and Domain names
from $0 /mo ✓ renews at the same price
ClouDNS scores higher on our methodology (9.5 vs 4.7).
Spec by spec
| ClouDNS | deSEC | |
|---|---|---|
| Anycast PoPs | 65 | 14 |
| GeoDNS | Yes | No |
| Payment methods | Card, PayPal, Crypto (BTC, ETH), SEPA, Bank wire, Alipay | — |
| Latency routing | No | No |
| Support channels | Chat 24/7, Ticket | Ticket |
| DNSSEC | Yes | Yes |
| Money-back period | 7 days | — |
| ALIAS / CNAME flattening | Yes | No |
| Uptime SLA | 100 % | 0 % |
| API / Terraform | Yes | No |
| KYC required | Email only | Email only |
| Free tier limits | Free DNS: 1 zone, 50 records, 500K queries/month, 4 unicast (non-anycast) nameservers, no DNSSEC/API/secondary; zones idle 30+ days may be deleted | Free; domain count per account set by support (new accounts reportedly 1); API rate-limited |
| Anonymity | Full | Full |
| DDoS posture | Dedicated 'DDoS Protected DNS' and GeoDNS plans run on 'Anycast Protected' servers. Premium is anycast with no DDoS protection listed, and Free is unicast. No mitigation capacity is published. | Anycast frontends on NetActuate's network, split across two networks/ASNs. deSEC publishes no specific DDoS-mitigation capacity or service, and the Terms give no availability guarantee ('best-effort'). |
Scores come from our published methodology; renewal prices always shown beside intro prices. Full profiles: ClouDNS · deSEC