deSEC vs DNSimple
DNS — side-by-side specs, real prices, and how each scores on our methodology.
DNSimple 7.0 /10 editorial Reliable DNS hosting and domain management
from $0 /mo ✓ renews at the same price
DNSimple scores higher on our methodology (7.0 vs 4.7).
Spec by spec
| deSEC | DNSimple | |
|---|---|---|
| Anycast PoPs | 14 | 16 |
| GeoDNS | No | Yes |
| Payment methods | — | Card |
| Latency routing | No | No |
| Support channels | Ticket | Ticket |
| DNSSEC | Yes | Yes |
| Money-back period | — | 0 days |
| ALIAS / CNAME flattening | No | Yes |
| Uptime SLA | 0 % | 99 % |
| API / Terraform | No | Yes |
| KYC required | Email only | Email only |
| Free tier limits | Free; domain count per account set by support (new accounts reportedly 1); API rate-limited | No free tier. Solo has a $0 base fee but bills $0.50 per zone per month, and every plan requires a card for the 30-day trial. |
| Anonymity | Full | Partial |
| DDoS posture | 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'). | 'Multi-layered DDoS defense' on all plans, running on DNSimple-owned edge infrastructure. Signature detection runs at the cache layer. No mitigation capacity figures are published. Cloudflare DNS Firewall was removed in 2026. |
Scores come from our published methodology; renewal prices always shown beside intro prices. Full profiles: deSEC · DNSimple